oem The Cabbage is an alligory. You can read it as the parody of Andrew Marvell's 'To My Coy Mistress' and John Donne's 'The Flea.' Or you can interprate it in your own way. Either way Simic will continue to write in sentences and everyday lanuage. And it is facinating how he does not use any rhyme sycheme or meter in his poems. They are short, full of emotion, and the words are choosen carefully to get the right mood. "Simic has become one of those writers for whom there is no word but the individuality of their work. Just as we can always tell a Dickinson poem, a Cornell box, or a Keaton in profile, you can always tell a Simic (Poets&Writers)."...
