To Stammering By Kenneth Koch

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“Superanda omnis fortuna ferendo” -- “Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance” as Virgil quote, where there is a great similarity with the narrator who is like a child crying in grief. The poem To Stammering, written by Kenneth Koch, is about a man and his struggles. The narrator explains throughout the poem his struggle in self-evaluation. Why is he the way he is?... What is he? As he indirectly asks himself these questions, and answer them, he understands the struggle of self-efficacy. He has yet to face the problem of self-destruction of the mind. In the poem To Stammering, the narrator states that he has not dealt with any enemies of the inside, “I hadn’t any other experience of enemies from inside,” and that they were all external

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