A Stranger Me
Smoking barrels, running forward, never thought what’s to be. Another rolling nightmare with no end in sight. Another day with this war has come for me, raising my rifle is hell that won’t let me be. The thought of violence helps to get this right.
Molding me out of flesh, forged in the fire.
Where I go and what I do, I just don’t give a damn. Another shot, one more mortar is all that they have planned. I raise my rifle, take the shot, and run one through and through.
Home now.
Take away my wings.
The man they made me be is who is my greatest enemy. A Stranger me.
I was a Soldier without a regret, dancing on the fence between two Me’s.
Stumbling. Back onto my feet again. Visions of decisions fill my thoughts.
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You invite a person to be part of what is going on in your mind, to be part of who you are. We, as readers, have been invited into many a different event in so many other people’s lives from Shakespeare’s Sonnets to Turner’s “What Every Soldier Should Know” to Lockwood’s “Rape Joke”. The poetry we have read lends itself to delving into who those people are, what the sum of their experiences has been, and gives you the mindset of the individual author. The poem “A Stranger Me” gives you an idea of a man who has had to play two roles but is stuck somewhere in between because of those experiences. While those experiences aren’t listed, you can imagine them beneath the surface in the way the poem is written. The choppy, broken cadence leads you to see that the individual doesn’t know how to express himself but is trying to convey that there is more to his words. The imagery portrayed is that the author understands that the two parts and eventually comes to terms with this because there isn’t a “division” but one whole. The literary device’s play off of each other, “a look into a mirror” would offer you a reflection of what’s in the mirror but seeing a reflection of someone you don’t know…it leads one to reflect on who they
Smoking barrels, running forward, never thought what’s to be. Another rolling nightmare with no end in sight. Another day with this war has come for me, raising my rifle is hell that won’t let me be. The thought of violence helps to get this right.
Molding me out of flesh, forged in the fire.
Where I go and what I do, I just don’t give a damn. Another shot, one more mortar is all that they have planned. I raise my rifle, take the shot, and run one through and through.
Home now.
Take away my wings.
The man they made me be is who is my greatest enemy. A Stranger me.
I was a Soldier without a regret, dancing on the fence between two Me’s.
Stumbling. Back onto my feet again. Visions of decisions fill my thoughts.
Attention to …show more content…
You invite a person to be part of what is going on in your mind, to be part of who you are. We, as readers, have been invited into many a different event in so many other people’s lives from Shakespeare’s Sonnets to Turner’s “What Every Soldier Should Know” to Lockwood’s “Rape Joke”. The poetry we have read lends itself to delving into who those people are, what the sum of their experiences has been, and gives you the mindset of the individual author. The poem “A Stranger Me” gives you an idea of a man who has had to play two roles but is stuck somewhere in between because of those experiences. While those experiences aren’t listed, you can imagine them beneath the surface in the way the poem is written. The choppy, broken cadence leads you to see that the individual doesn’t know how to express himself but is trying to convey that there is more to his words. The imagery portrayed is that the author understands that the two parts and eventually comes to terms with this because there isn’t a “division” but one whole. The literary device’s play off of each other, “a look into a mirror” would offer you a reflection of what’s in the mirror but seeing a reflection of someone you don’t know…it leads one to reflect on who they