Edward Sander's Poem

Edward Sanders's poem about what happened in the summer of 1968 in Chicago was interesting. During the Democratic Convention, a good of protesters came to put on a peaceful protest and was viciously attack by the Chicago police. The poem was titled "Yeats in the Gas" and in our reader, the poem is set up in a non-traditional prose stance. I think Sanders made the poem like that to give the reader a disoriented feeling, and in a way maybe let the reader have a sense of how crazy things were during the attack. Regardless of how the poem is set up, just reading the words can give the reader chills. Once you read it, you try and visualize what you are reading and it is just scary to visualize something like that.