"The Lie"  

                        Anne Waldman in her poem “The Lie” illustrates that everything in this world is illusion and nothing is what we think of them and how they are. Even Art, you can make it what you want it to be in your own eyes but other people might see it differently and have different views, so Anne tells us that it can be lie, because Art is just an illusion and not real. People can disregard lies in larger ideas for their own sake like the messages Art sends about people having different views on one thing.  

             “The Lie” tells us way of getting the point of something without even saying it and depending on the good or the bad of the issue, art can be a good way to show the meaning that will be interpreted differently by everyone. “Her…poems are marred with flat writing and sophomoric conclusions about life, love, and art;”. Anne in her poems mainly focuses on life, love, and art as these lines proves that from biography of her by Alicia Ostriker and “The Lie” is a fine example.