The Suicide of Louis MacNeiceThe poem "The Suicide" by Louis MacNeice is a poignant and expansive poem, based on the poet's work experiences and sequentially describing the aftermath of the death of his former office colleague, who met his fate by committing suicide. I feel melancholy after reading this poem and it leaves blank spaces in the mind for the reader to respond. For my first point of view I will show an example of the many humorous lines in the poem where internal characters are made humorous missing the main point: "And this, ladies and gentlemen, which I am not actually directing, was his office so many minutes ago" These lines are the introduction to the poem and give a mental vision of a holiday representative showing holidaymakers a landmark of interest or a game show host introducing a new contestant to a show and in both cases they use the corpse of the dead colleague as an example, which also gives the impression that the holidaymakers are not really interested in the corpse as such but are using it for their own entertainment rather than feeling sorry for the dead person, which suggests they have not got the point. The lines are said in a sarcastic tone as they should be a few painful lines but the poet instead turns them into a few comic lines. It is also worth remembering that we readers are also just as bad as the holidaymakers who gape at the corpse because it is only now worthy of chat and interest whereas in the past it may have been rejected or disliked, which is still an example of us that we use the dead person as a social chat or to make ourselves more popular by talking about them in public. The next point I will raise is the first of the causes of death that I found within the poem: "In the intray, the ash in the ashtray" This is an example of the choice of words used by the poet to create an impact on the reader and suggests that the man committed suicide because he had a fatal disease, such as lung cancer, caused by smoking and did not want to experience the pain of a slow death, so he took his own life to prevent it. The lines also suggest that his life is reduced to ashes.