Analyzing Michael Mcfee's 'In Medias Res'

In Medias Res in Latin means “in the middle of things.” This poem was published in 1985 by poet, critic, and editor, Michael McFee. Michael McFee was born in Asheville, North Carolina and earned both his BA and MA at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He teaches in the creative writing program at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He has also been poet in residence at Cornell and at Lawrence University. He lives in Durham.
This is a picture poem which means that the poet arranged the lines into shapes which can embody the meaning of the poem. This is a great poem, by Michael McFee on 263. In the abstract, it 's about a man who has developed a gut and the poem addresses his feelings toward his new-found
It is defined as a one-cell tissue layer that is found in most plants... and is also responsible for secondary growth. It divides and produces more cells, much like the speaker 's description of the man 's waist line. The speaker compares the man 's waistline to a plot- because both thicken. Another humorous element of the poem is its shape, which is that of a large gut. The poem also mentioned stars collapsing, which occurs at the end of their lifetime. When all other possible energy sources for the star have been exhausted, a collapse will ensue. Dwarf stars and black holes can result from a collapse. This implies that the speaker believes the man 's endless spiral of weight gain is much like a black hole. A black hole is a region of space that nothing can escape, much like the subject 's
The title was actually a reference to the man 's murderous stomach, and the shape was an emphasis of the first and last lines, not the middle. "His waist.... the kill." I think that the shape might be growing with the man 's concern for his weight- his concern grows as he does, until the middle. At that point I feel that this man has given up, and feels that there is no hope for him. By the end, by the line "the kill" the fat man is in ignorance or denial, and that is the reason his zipper sneers, the reason his belly is ready to kill. The author wants to leave us with the experience of growing old and fat. The title "In Medias Res" means that the reader joins this story in the middle, implying the subject 's middle age. The shape of the poem and the gradual progression from gentle mockery to the fatalistic claim that the belly is "ready for/ the kill" shows that the subject 's life is in decline. Things will not get better for the subject. He will only grow fatter and closer to