Analyzing The Poem 'Untitled' By Stephen Crane

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"Untitled" by Stephen Crane enlightens the reader on how the emotions of a human heart can consume one's own conscience and how one must come to love their attributes good or bad. Crane begins the poem with symbolism relating to the original form of a human being. " I saw a creature, naked, bestial". The man is not masked with materialistic items that might cause confusion towards the image of the man. The man is in his purest form is free from the interpretation of his clothing that might be mistaken for who he is. Him being naked is show casing his human body without any misleading thoughts of what he is. The authors use of the word "bestial" refers to an accurate word for the behavior of the man. "Held his heart in his hands, and ate of

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