In the poem called “A Story About the Body” by Robert Hass, it is a story about how a composer is falling in love with a Japanese painter. However, the painter tells the composer about how her body is not as perfect as other women; she doesn’t have breasts. That left the composer in shock and left. Then the writer ended it with the painter leaving the composer a bowl of “roses” on top and “dead bees” at the bottom (Hass 1). The end of the prose poem gave an insight of using a metaphor as an image. It gave meaning to the poem showing that the painter is beautiful on top, but dead or bad on the inside. Ending the prose poem with an image and a metaphor gave strength to the meaning of the poem. Haas’s ending gave an idea of how I should end my
