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A Criticism Of Christopher Hitchen's Poem

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Christopher Hitchens, utilizes his media outlet as a coping/informing mechanism. He equates being diagnosed with cancer to transcending to a new land. He makes light of the situation by trying to reduce the tension. In addition, this ‘new land’ has its own language(medical terminology) and “unsettling gestures”(physical examination). Hitchen's exclaims that he has “been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in [his] direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even [him].”
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