In “A Finger, Two Dots, Then Me”, Derrick Brown takes the position of a weak man who is elderly and is going to face death. He speaks the thoughts aloud of the old man by demonstrating his memorable times, his freedom in his afterlife, and the positivity towards death. Throughout this poem he is speaking to the person who he promised to love for eternity. He says he will love her until he is extremely old, when she needs to feed and bathe him “when it is rather necessary”. He reveals that when he dies, she will find him if she holds one finger up “two fingers if [her] hands are frail by now, and count two stars directly to the left of the North American moon” (Brown). He states that he can not wait for her, but he could meet up with her in
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He begins the poem saying that he will love her “till there is no till,” leaving the audience thinking that he is going to die soon and they will no longer be together. As he continues to talk, the audience may realize that the main theme of the text is the freedom you experience in the afterlife. Usually, death is a depressing situation but Brown talks about it as if it is a way of freedom. He says, “I will be there chasing sound waves riding them like two-dollar pony ride horses that have finally broken free and wild” (Brown). Brown talks about his freedom in the afterlife as if he were reliving his life as a little kid again. He reassures that his lover knows that he is not gone and that she shouldn 't feel anguish because they are going to see each other again. All she has to do is hold up one finger and she will see him there “darting behind amazing quasars” (Brown). That provided information on where he will be when she sees him again once she passes away. He wants her to think positively and enjoy the time she has in the life she is living …show more content…
This is one word Brown uses repetitively to grasp peoples’ attention. This makes the poem more compelling to the audience because it is an effective and powerful word. This one word has so much meaning to it in this text, but Brown says that 's every poet is trying to figure out what it means so he asks, “Lord, what is holy?” (Brown). That moment, when he asked, everything made sense. He listed many simple things like “those 5.00 you made at Las Vegas,” and continues to say holy. He realized that everything that you experience in life was because of God, which means everything is holy. He wanted to stress that everything is holy because he wants his lover to know that she will find him once she passes away. He tells her to take her time to meet up with him, “and don 't worry about getting lost” (Brown). In the video, we see multiple flashbacks that were memorable to him while he says the word holy. This brings a sense of excitement to the tone of the poem. It brings the audience to the edge of their seats because he gradually gets louder and louder. Once he first experiences his after life he realizes that everything in life is
He begins the poem saying that he will love her “till there is no till,” leaving the audience thinking that he is going to die soon and they will no longer be together. As he continues to talk, the audience may realize that the main theme of the text is the freedom you experience in the afterlife. Usually, death is a depressing situation but Brown talks about it as if it is a way of freedom. He says, “I will be there chasing sound waves riding them like two-dollar pony ride horses that have finally broken free and wild” (Brown). Brown talks about his freedom in the afterlife as if he were reliving his life as a little kid again. He reassures that his lover knows that he is not gone and that she shouldn 't feel anguish because they are going to see each other again. All she has to do is hold up one finger and she will see him there “darting behind amazing quasars” (Brown). That provided information on where he will be when she sees him again once she passes away. He wants her to think positively and enjoy the time she has in the life she is living …show more content…
This is one word Brown uses repetitively to grasp peoples’ attention. This makes the poem more compelling to the audience because it is an effective and powerful word. This one word has so much meaning to it in this text, but Brown says that 's every poet is trying to figure out what it means so he asks, “Lord, what is holy?” (Brown). That moment, when he asked, everything made sense. He listed many simple things like “those 5.00 you made at Las Vegas,” and continues to say holy. He realized that everything that you experience in life was because of God, which means everything is holy. He wanted to stress that everything is holy because he wants his lover to know that she will find him once she passes away. He tells her to take her time to meet up with him, “and don 't worry about getting lost” (Brown). In the video, we see multiple flashbacks that were memorable to him while he says the word holy. This brings a sense of excitement to the tone of the poem. It brings the audience to the edge of their seats because he gradually gets louder and louder. Once he first experiences his after life he realizes that everything in life is