The poem A Story about the Body by Robert Hass does not appear as a typical poem. Hass wrote the poem in the form of a paragraph; without reading the genre was poetry I would have guessed it to be fiction. My favorite thing about this piece of writing is how much the author was able to convey in such a short paragraph. It’s basically a love story gone wrong, and the reader can easily sympathize with either of the characters. In the first sentence, the rising action catches the reader’s attention by displaying important details. The next sentence, “She was Japanese, a painter, almost sixty, and he thought he was in love with her,” creates a problem. The reader knows the woman is older than the young composer and that he was in love, or felt in love with this woman. The only dialogue appears at the climax of the story, when the woman tells him she had a double mastectomy, and then he admits he cannot be with her because of this. The author emphasizes this important part of the story by making it a direct dialogue between the two characters.
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