Irina Cabral
English Studies, Group 110
The Day Lady Died
In this poem, it is described the ordinary routine and movements of a poet living in New
York City. Throughout the text, we identify that the first four stanzas are narrated in
chrological time. Continuing with that, we can see this because the time is passing and
the poet narrate his movements in a lineal time. Apart of that, in the last stanza the plot
of the story takes another patch and it started to be narrated in an anachrony way. In the
fifth stanza the poet place himself in the past, he had a flashback in which he
remembered a time when his dearest friend was alive.
On the contratry, we can also identify an instance of frequency alteration through the
poem,
