“I am not here to make friends, I’m here to find love” is the opening mantra to every episode of every season of “The Bachelor”. In the poem “The Bachelor Watches ‘The Bachelor,’” the poet Jacob Saenz uses unparalleled imagery and alternating tones to push the point that the speaker is jealous of “The Bachelor”, and that he wants his life to have purpose like the bachelor’s. He wants to change his life, and give it purpose and he sees finding love as giving his life purpose.
The speaker is himself a bachelor, implying that he is single or, in other words, all alone. He watches ABC’s “The Bachelor” every night it airs on his couch all by his lonesome, and as most men watching the bachelor do, he starts picturing himself as the bachelor on the show. The poem is written from the view of the speaker’s fantasy. The speaker doesn’t like his real life, as he rarely discusses it in the poem. When he does he describe his life it is mundane, depressing, and almost annoying. The speaker chooses to live almost entirely in what seems like a fantasy world of his own creation because he doesn’t think that his mundane life has any meaning to it. In all honesty, the speaker really doesn’t have a bad life, it’s just average, but he yearns for more than just average. He lusts for excitement or anything to shine a light in his dull …show more content…
The reader can gather that he is a hopeless romantic based on this line in the poem “a date in a castle, a glass /slipper prop, a clock winding its way/ down to midnight. My date & I sip/ champagne, chat & eat, then we dance /to a live orchestra led by a maestro/ who wishes he were dead” (lines 19–24). There is almost nothing more of a cliché of romance than this, the only thing missing was roses and chocolates. The speaker deep down really wants to change his life, he really wants to be like the people on the show but he doesn’t think he can ever get
The speaker is himself a bachelor, implying that he is single or, in other words, all alone. He watches ABC’s “The Bachelor” every night it airs on his couch all by his lonesome, and as most men watching the bachelor do, he starts picturing himself as the bachelor on the show. The poem is written from the view of the speaker’s fantasy. The speaker doesn’t like his real life, as he rarely discusses it in the poem. When he does he describe his life it is mundane, depressing, and almost annoying. The speaker chooses to live almost entirely in what seems like a fantasy world of his own creation because he doesn’t think that his mundane life has any meaning to it. In all honesty, the speaker really doesn’t have a bad life, it’s just average, but he yearns for more than just average. He lusts for excitement or anything to shine a light in his dull …show more content…
The reader can gather that he is a hopeless romantic based on this line in the poem “a date in a castle, a glass /slipper prop, a clock winding its way/ down to midnight. My date & I sip/ champagne, chat & eat, then we dance /to a live orchestra led by a maestro/ who wishes he were dead” (lines 19–24). There is almost nothing more of a cliché of romance than this, the only thing missing was roses and chocolates. The speaker deep down really wants to change his life, he really wants to be like the people on the show but he doesn’t think he can ever get