Poems are often very confusing for the simple-minded reader. Though if you focus, reread, and take time to understand what the poem is saying, you can often find a very relevant and inspiring message. There are three poems this essay will cover. The first is a poem called “The Unknown Citizen” by W.H. Auden, this poem is about no one important just an average factory worker who seems to have everything go perfect in his life. The next poem is titled “Old Age Sticks” by a famous poet named E.E. Cummings the poem describes the contrast between people of old age and the rebellious youth. The last poem titled “Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town” by yet again E.E. Cummings, this poem is the classic love story of a man who loves a girl and ends up with her. The reader can derive three separate messages from the poems “The Unknown Citizen”, “Old Age Sticks”, and “Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town”. The first poem “The Unknown Citizen”
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Cummings “Old Age Sticks” This poem describes the contrast between how old people act and think and how young people act and think. It tells how old people put up stay away signs and say stop, do not, and quit. While the rebellious youth tear down their signs, and do the opposite of what they say. Life is a cycle where people are born and grow up into their youthful years, where they are rebellious and go against what they are told. Though in a few short years those rebellious youngsters, become the rule making and enforcing older generation. In the poem, it says “youth goes right on growing old” This very true no matter how much the youth of today deny it. Everyone will eventually become old, it is kind of sad, but it is a reality we all must live with. Old age should not be a sad thing we must look forward to, we should see it as an opportunity for new adventures and fun. That is the message the reader can receive from the poem “Old Age
Cummings “Old Age Sticks” This poem describes the contrast between how old people act and think and how young people act and think. It tells how old people put up stay away signs and say stop, do not, and quit. While the rebellious youth tear down their signs, and do the opposite of what they say. Life is a cycle where people are born and grow up into their youthful years, where they are rebellious and go against what they are told. Though in a few short years those rebellious youngsters, become the rule making and enforcing older generation. In the poem, it says “youth goes right on growing old” This very true no matter how much the youth of today deny it. Everyone will eventually become old, it is kind of sad, but it is a reality we all must live with. Old age should not be a sad thing we must look forward to, we should see it as an opportunity for new adventures and fun. That is the message the reader can receive from the poem “Old Age