Analysis/Meaning of Mark Doty's poem &quskin analyzer diorot;Tiara"?

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I can’t find any help online. I know Doty is homosexual and this poem has something to do with that. I think it’s a beautiful poem but i can’t quite grasp the metaphors/ambiguous language. I need help ASAP; I have a paper due before midnight that this poem is potentially part of. Thanks!
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I can’t find any help online. I know Doty is homosexual and this poem has something to do with that. I think it’s a beautiful poem but i can’t quite grasp the metaphors/ambiguous language. I need help ASAP; I have a paper due before midnight that this poem is potentially part of. Thanks!
Here’s the poem:

Peter died in a paper tiara
cut from a book of princess paper dolls;
he loved royalty, sashes

and jewels. I don’t know,
he said, when he woke in the hospice,
I was watching the Bette Davis film festival

on Channel 57 and then—
At the wake, the tension broke
when someone guessed

the casket closed because
he was in there in a big wig
and heels, and someone said,

You know he’s always late,
he probably isn’t here yet—
he’s still fixing his makeup.

And someone said he asked for it.
Asked for it—
when all he did was go down

into the salt tide
of wanting as much as he wanted,
giving himself over so drunk

or stoned it almost didn’t matter who,
though they were beautiful,
stampeding into him in the simple,

ravishing music of their hurry.
I think heaven is perfecskin analyzer reviewt stasis
poised over the realms of desire,

where dreaming and waking men lie
on the grass while wet horses
roam among them, huge fragments

of the music we die into
in the body’s paradise.
Sometimes we wake not knowing

how we came to lie here,
or who has crowned us with these temporary,
precious stones. And given

the world’s perfectly turned shoulders,
the deep hollows blued by longing,
given the irreplaceable silk

of horses rippling in orchards,
fruit thundering and chiming down,
given the ordinary marvels of form

and gravity, what could he do,
what could any of us ever do
but ask for it.

Answer:
Maikang Tiara Meaningskin analyzer

Maikang The poem is part of a series of poems he wrote in response to his partner passing away from AIDS. Essentially, there isn’t so much a hidden meaning, as just details of the wake and what his partner was really like. The latter part of the poem is a reflection on how we (humans) came to exist and about our “maker”. It is about loving even after we have suffered lost, appreciating life, and never forgetting who is important to us.skin analyzer

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