Denial

The poem that i found most difficult was "denial" by David Lehman. It really got to me because all he was doing was saying the same thing over but in different way. While reading it I was getting tongue tide that just irritated me the most. Even though it got under my skin with repeating the words, it does make a lot of sense why he would do it. When we are in denial of whatever the case is, we tell ourselves it's not right but repeating it multiple time. Trying to convince ourselves this is something that we do, I myself have done it before.

When reading this poem there was multiple things that came in mind what would make him say this. It seems like he didn't want to accept the fact that he might have been hungover. So him saying it over and over was a form of denial, a sense that he didn't want to take responsibility for whatever happened. When a person has done something that they didn't want to happen, they go into being in denial about the situation. trying to make it seem like it really hadn't happen.

I often think that when a person is in denial that they are running from the truth. They don't want to face reality so they keep repeating it in their head. David was running from the truth that he was drunk and now he got a hangover because of it. It was probably something that he never done before and now that it was reality he was in denial. It was something he didn't want to face that it really happened.