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The poem “Alzheimer’s” by Kelly Cherry explains how glorious a man’s life was before a brain harming disease became a factor within it. Alzheimer’s is a disease that slowly causes one’s brain to deteriorate, to slowly forget about the past, and can even cause people to forget how to breathe or walk. The setting of the poem takes place at a house in which a man, the main character, is returning home after suffering problems caused by Alzheimer’s. According to the poem “Alzheimer’s”, the man’s memory was becoming cloudy but fragments of the past stayed within his mind because he “remembers the walkway he built between the front room and the garage.” Cherry utilizes words describing the man’s life, making strong comparisons between the present

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