In “Monet Refuses the Operation,” by Lisel Muller, the author is writing about a man named Claude Monet, an elderly man who has developed cataracts in his eyes. Monet’s doctor is telling him that he should get them surgically removed, but Monet refuses and starts telling the young doctor why. Monet explains to the doctor that removing the cataracts would “restore my youthful errors” and he would again see the world as “fixed notions of top and bottom” Monet wants to continue seeing the world with halos around street lamps and gas lamps as angels. The tone is shown through Monet, he is informing the doctor of everything that he has learned by having cataracts. The title is a give away about what the poem will be about, but it is only a overview.
