On Studying Anatomy

Roston, Diane

Primary Category: Literature / Poetry

Genre: Poem

Annotated by:
Chen, Irene
Aull, Felice
  • Date of entry: Jan-30-1997

Summary

The poem depicts a fiercely wild and free woman who meets an untimely death in a motorcycle accident. The anatomy student views the cadaver as more than just "thirty-one-year-old female flesh," and fantasizes about what her life (and death) must have been like.

Primary Source

Poetry: A Collection of Poems Written by Medical Students, 1983-1985

Publisher

Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine

Place Published

Rootstown, Ohio

Edition

1986

Editor

Martin Kohn, Delese Wear, & Susan Jamison