“A Study of Reading Habits” 4/7/08

1. The three stages in the stanzas that the poem detonates are his childhood years where he went to school, his middle age years where he was very sexually active and his old man years.

2. The speaker is a very self contained, quiet person. It seems like he might have been bullied in school and that he doesn’t have much trust for mankind. The kind of books he reads is books with villains and superheroes, and books with Draculla and Frankenstein. No, I don’t think that the man in the poem is the poet.