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In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said: "is it good, friend?"
"It is bitter-bitter," he answered;
"But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart."
The author Stephen Crane uses a lot of descriptive words to start the poem that helps create the scene of his poem. I noticed he used a comma after good, before he says friend, almost as if he is hesitating to say it. He uses friend perhaps because he is frightened of the creature and wants to approach the being in a way that is non-threatening. The last few lines, where the creature responds to the man is talking about how the evil inside him or the bitterness, he enjoys. He likes the bad parts of himself because they are what makes him, him.

P.S. I commented on Shelby's blog :)