Interpretations and explications of “Ethics” by Linda Pastan

Interpretations and explications of “Ethics” by Linda Pastan
How many different ways are there to interpret a poem? Different approaches can be used to analyze a piece of literature. In the poem, “Ethics” by Linda Pastan many of these approaches need to be taken to interpret this poem.
This poem fits the characteristics of a narrative poem. A reason it is considered a narrative poem is a climax and conclusion exist in the poem. Another reason it is a narrative poem is, the reader knows who the main character is. The characters name is Linda. “Linda, the teacher would report” (15). The final reason it is a narrative poem is readers read a story of an event in Linda’s life.
The poem has relatively simple language used, but there are a few words that are difficult to understand. The first words that needed to be looked up were Rembrandt painting. The denotation of the words was a Dutch painter in the seventeenth century (American Herita...