The Death of Marilyn Monroe (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
The Poem
Sharon Olds’s “The Death of Marilyn Monroe” is a brief free-verse poem consisting of five grammatical sentences arranged into twenty-six lines and divided into four verse paragraphs. Only the title identifies the deceased of the poem as famous actress Marilyn Monroe. The poem concentrates on “the ambulance men” who transported her corpse. The second sentence indicates the focus of the poem: “These men were never the same.” The remainder of the poem describes how the lives of the three paramedics were altered by their encounter with the dead celebrity: One...
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