Szymborska

The first thing I noticed about this Experiment poem, was how it portrayed happiness and sadness/anxiety all at the same time. To me, it was almost as if the feelings were bipolar, first they were up then they were down. Now not only are these feelings bipolar but its not even a human head- it’s a dogs head. She spoke about how if the dogs head were still to be attached it would have all of its senses back, as she gives examples on the mouth watering from bacon. Reading about how the head is just completely absent from the body made me feel slightly uncomfortable knowing that she was able to sit through and look at this dogs head with no problem. Then again, maybe she was reflecting on the dogs body connectedness, or in this case, the lack of. And how the brain cannot be switched because much of our experience in our thoughts relies on the body.