Write a thoughtful, balanced, and convincing essay that analyzes and interprets Matthew Zapruder, "Poem for a Suicide". The yellow flowers on the grave make an arch, they lie

on a black stone that lies on the ground like a black door that will always

remain closed down into the earth, into it is etched the name

of a great poet who believed he had nothing more to say,

he threw himself into literal water and everyone has done their mourning

and been mourned over, and we all went on with our shopping,

I stare at this photograph of that grave and think you died like him,

like all the others, and the yellow flowers

seem angry, they seem to want to refuse to be placed anywhere but in a vase

next to the living, someday all of us will have our names

etched where we cannot read them, she who sealed her envelopes

full of poems about doubt with flowers called it her "granite lip," I want mine

to say Lucky Life, and what would a perfect elegy do? place the flowers

back in the ground? take me where I can watch him sit eternally

dreaming over his typewriter? then, at last, will I finally unlearn

everything? and I admit that yes, while I could never leave

everyone, here at last I understand these yellow flowers,

the names, the black door he held open

and you walked through.

Possible approaches: Imagery: What concrete images dominate the poem? Why are they chosen and what is their effect? (Examples from readings include the vivid, sometimes startling visual and kinetic images

3 pages. with double spacing might contain around 750 words.