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These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. Written by Micola Magdalena and other people who wish to remain anonymous. In this poem, the narrator describes the difference in perspective a painter and a poet have.

The day lady died

He starts the poem by mentioning how he is a poet but would like to be a painter. The poem contains a conversation between the narrator and a painter, Mike Goldberg. The narrator visits the painter while he is working and asks various questions about the piece he is working on. One day, the narrator sees Mike Goldberg working on a piece which has sardines in it and at first he is confused about why someone would chose to paint sardines.

When the narrator comes again, he sees that the sardines are gone and they are replaced by something else. The second stanza is used to show how the poem is unable to understand the painter. The poet does not see the value in the subject chosen by the painter and does not understand the change in the subject either.