In the poem "March Elegy," the author writes about her fulfillment in life and how there is nothing left to live for. She laments her empty life because she should be satisfied but she is not. She writes, "I have enough treasures from the past/ to last me longer than I need, or want"(1-2). Her opening explains the poem's contents. She has many things, memories, keepsakes, but she doesn't really want them or need them. However, she cannot get rid of them. She continues her feelings with, "a tiny rowboat that comes drifting out/ of somebody's dreams, slowly foundering"(11-12). She insinuates the the rowboat is everyone's hopes and dreams, but that they struggle to come true. Sometimes they never do. She believes that no one can ever be truly happy and says so by saying that all dreams drown in sadness. It's a bleak outlook on life and an interesting metaphor for ambitions.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Elegy # 5
In the poem "Warped and Twisted," the author describes how although they seem pleasant on the outside, on the inside they're pessimistic and disturbed. They have a very bleak and negative outlook on life and other people. He talks about how he sees others when he writes, "Nobody's special, nobody's gifted,/ I'm just me, warped and twisted"(9-10). He hates everyone else and feels that no one is blessed or unique. There is no individualism and he is not preoccupied with anybody's life but his own. His own life, in fact, is very depressing and disturbed. He continues to rant about the terribleness of his life. He writes, "Burnt out, wasted, empty, and hollow,/ Today is just yesterday's tomorrow./ The sun dried out, the ashes sifted,/ I'm still here, warped and twisted"(18-22). He describes how life is meaningless and routine. Nothing is left, everything has been used up, like happiness excitement, etc. Then after everything has died out, he'd remain his same old self. He is unchangeable. This is one of my favorite poems because it is sincerely dark and uses end rhymes that fit flawlessly. It's a one-of-a-kind poem and it's perfect.
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The author's feelings in the poem "Warped and Twisted" are obviously extremely depressed and discontented. Although I can't imagine feeling that way for an extended period of time, I think that everyone goes through phases where they feel that nothing in life is worth anything. If someone felt the way the author feels for a long time, however, that person would probably has had something terrible happen in their life.
In the second poem, the author's feeling of dissatisfaction with a life that should have been satisfying to her is really interesting. I think that a lot of people fear feeling this way. Getting to the end of your life and realizing that it has been meaningless for you would be very depressing, especially because you wouldn't be able to change this feeling.
The feelings described in this poem are very straight forward and almost bleak. Nothing is sugar coated or covered up and I really admire that. The poet is very willing to show his true feelings and write them down for others to see, by doing this he's also in a sense expressing to other people how he feels, so maybe in a way this is a way for people to understand him as a person.
The poet in "Warped and Twisted" obviously feels that at the end of everyone's core there is nothing special about them, and I agree with your analysis. Happiness is obviously only a passing emotion to this him, and is something that will always leave you as quickly as it comes.
It would seem that if this man only cares for himself, it is a form of individualism in the purest form.
The author seems to be a cynic and can no longer see the good side of anything. Perhaps he is weary of his individualistic life.
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