What I found very original about this poem is it's ability to tell a story twice, once reading it forward and then backwards. I read the title at first with not much attention to its significance - only at the end did I see what it intended. After reading it beginning to end, like I normally would, I read it end to beginning. Each one told a different story, or point of view. First it was an outlook on the insignificance of our plight and the other a tragic end befalling a man. Rarely do I see a poem demand me to reread it backwards because it contains another way to perceive a story.