How to Watch Your Brother Die

Michael Lassell in the poem: "How to watch your brother Die", brings a lot of different issues in the table. From reading this poem, I do not think this is Lassell's brother, who is actually dying, but rather a close friend and that friend's own brother, whom he knew in his life.

His barrier collapse, when the narrator discovers his brother's terminal illness and impending death. The long-lost sister of love finally resurfaces as narrator sobs of his regret for completing his brother for many years.

In the poem reflects the contradiction between social acceptance and expulsion of ...