Publication Date Precis

In the poem, "Publication Date," by Franz Wright, Wright uses metaphors to create a dreadful tone and a message all writers want their audience to know. The first metaphor that stood out to me was the line, "National I Hate Myself I Want to Die Day." This is a metaphor for the dread the publication date for the writer's works creates, while waiting for their work to come out. The next metaphor is, "the forecast in Boston calls for a cold night all morning and all afternoon. Once again, the author uses this metaphor to repeat the dread the authors go through waiting "all morning" and "all afternoon" for their works to be published. By using these simple metaphors in his poem, Wright was able to create a sense of dread within his work.