Missing You Metropolis Analysis

Do you think that the way we grow up has a lasting effect on us? What we go through and are surrounded by as children can shape our personality and how we deal with the things that occur in our lives. In Missing you, Metropolis written by Gary Jackson the underlying theme of "Machine" (65) and "Emergency" (70-72) is an incredibly deep and difficult subject to talk about: suicide. The way we deal with our past makes us who we are, but how much can a person handle before they break? All that was holding Stuart together broke and Jackson was broken as a result of it. These poems convey a message that people can break because of the harsh world we live in; it only matters how we individually handle the break, but we all need to learn better ways …show more content…
He is but a shell of himself going through the motions of his life, but he is already gone. Jackson writes, "I'm looking ahead" (70) This is another warning sign, it gives you a false sense of hope by saying the Stuart's looking ahead to the future, but he is actually looking ahead to his death by planning his suicide in the forest. Jackson writes, "I imagine.// Riding those veins/ home, tracing.// Their origin back to the heart" (71) this relates back to "Machine" (65) where he is fantasizing about hurting himself, hurting his machine by tracing the wires back to his power source, his heart. At the end of the poem, Jackson writes, "There's no moon/ tonight but I can still feel/ the worn ivory/ grip. Everything around me/ used/ up." (72) which symbolizes that there is no light in the dark anymore, but he doesn't need the light for what he is doing. Everything around him is already gone to him, there is nothing left to worry about, but he needs to commit suicide before the light breaks. He cannot last another day in this world, so he shoots himself in the forest just as he had planned. Stuart died alone just as he had lived, or thought he lived, and that is Stuart's