FINAL POEM REVIEWS Cassandra's reviews Camden’s “He Loved Like His Christ” On its own, this piece is pretty heavy. Of course, it ends in the death of our main character, and even before we get to that most depressing part, everything that comes before it is…downpulling (the opposite of uplifting; I don’t want to call any poem “depressing” too many times or David will disagree with me!). But that’s clearly the point, without reading an explanatory comment from you; you as the writer are trying to make us readers look at the life of this man, just recognize it. I only have one issue, which comes only after reading your comment about it: “I also wanted to convey the theme of saintly brokenness - that the people that often touch the most lives and are the most pure are the most broken,” you say. But that’s the only part we don’t get to see from this piece—the lives this priest supposedly touched or his “purity.” You only mention how he gave love to “unworthy people,” and after sayi...
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