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Matrix: A Man's Feelings

William Heyen's poem "Matrix" (184-185) is a beautiful display of how he feels for his wife. You can tell from this poem that he is sensitive to her feelings of being sick and that he would do any thing to make her feel more comfortable. He shows this is his feelings by writing about his memory when he saw a mutilated turtle when he was a young boy.
In the first part of the poem, he talks about how when the turtle was younger something must have broken its shell in half because it looks as if it mended itself back together in the way it looked mutilated: " Something had chewed its back legs to the joints, / but its stumps were hard" (10-12). He asks the turtle knowing it is not going to ...

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"In the widows before us,/ as we changed her dressings," (32-33) "One morning, I pressed my lips / to her chest until, at last, / she believed / and opened up to me" (35-37). In those lines he is showing his love to and for her. By kissing her scar on her chest he showed her that he really cares for her and that he will always be there for her.
Heyen uses "Matrix" for the title of this poem for its meaning of a mold, because there is a similarity between his wife's body and the turtle shell. He is showing the readers that no matter how the outer layer of a being changes, it shouldn't change your feelings about it or how you think of it. The turtle may not have respond to him by him trying to comfort it, but he kept trying to comfort his wife until he found a way to show her that he still loved her, no matter what she looked like and had changed on the exterior.
The sensitivity that Heyen shows for his wife in the poem is beautiful. It shows, to all of his readers that he would go ...

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Added: 6/18/2004 03:42:31 PM
Category: Poetry & Poets
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