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In Sharon Olds' poem "The Victims," the reader experiences what a divorce is like.It's not an appositive error. See p. 319 of Sound and Sense. Also see the Owl page on appositives.
As a matter of fact, there is no error at all in the above example, but there is an appositive error in the first sentence of the sample essay I provided:
Adrienne Rich's poem, "Living in Sin," tells the story of one woman's experience with love.However, deleting the comma preceding the poem title creates a worse error. See Owl's "Extended Rules for Using Commas," #12.
THEREFORE: These two are correct:
In Sharon Olds' poem "The Victims," the reader experiences what a divorce is like.Can you see why the comma is required in the first sentence immediately above, but prohibited in the second?Adrienne Rich's poem "Living in Sin" tells the story of one woman's experience with love.