Yona Wallach Let Them Come Analysis

In Yona Wallach’s poem “Let Them Come” found on page sixty-six from the Collected Poems (1976), Wallach entices her readers with a poem about a woman who is having her last moments but wants her mourners to come and serve her. “Let them come and bring me foods,” this first line implies that she wants someone to serve her the last meal she will eat. The diction used and phrasing techniques lead the reader to believe that she is of importance. Specifically “let them come” as in she was okaying the people to be summoned to her to then serve her. The next line “Let me die but let them come, “ implies that she may leave the earth, but let the people come to resonate in her death and from the tone of seeming queen-like, let them mourn her. The next line of the poem, “and bring me treats,” brings thought to that she is expecting fine food, food that may be scarce in the area that she is dying in. She believes that she is deserving of fine foods …show more content…
Wallach does this to create a flow for the poem and each chunk of passage, the pattern gets longer and always ends with “doctor of morality; doctor of philosophy”. The phrases are not complete thoughts and this is where there is similarities to the structure of “When You Come” because the lines are not full thoughts, but at the same time there is a distinct flow to how the reader should read and flow throughout the poem. In the last, and longest section of “Doctor of Morality” the structure of repetition is very obvious. The poem evolved from the start being that the individual might steal and might not be moral in their actions, but at the end of the poem it concludes all thoughts and actions taken by the individual that they in fact chose the moral path and did not lie, steal, rob, kill, curse, etc. By giving a conclusion to the possibly immoral acts gives the reader a sense of relief that the individual did decide to do the right