Yona Wallach

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…

book was that the character you were reading about switches every couple of pages or so. It is when you would finally dig into a certain character and then they were over and you were moving on to the next. I did like that we did not just hear the story from one point of view, I loved that it was four different people. Not only was it four different people, but both genders, different skin colors, all with mixed attributes throughout the entire book. Overall, this book was amazing. The…