May Sarton wrote a poem about AIDS and how having this disease can affect our lives and a loved one’s life. With this disease it sets limits on not only you but of others. She not only portrays it in a negative context but also creates an image of how we can open up to others. AIDS is a disease that not only brings out the fear in people but those who they encounter. AIDS has been out since the 1980 but people still see it as something new. Sarton’s poem repeats words, and emphasize on AIDS. This poem is speaking real life truth about us, as a people, treat others differently when we fear that our own live might be in danger but informs us that we can change it to become more loving and compassionate towards this cause.
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When we are diagnoses with any sickness hope and despair are the first emotions that we are so engrossed with we do not think of anything else. She then repetitively says “fear” four times with enforcement that we as people are so afraid of those with this disease that we tend to leave, distance and avoid those in society. We as a community withdraw ourselves from those with AIDS that we leave them “In the dark. Lonely and sterile” (Sarton 631). Clearly, she feels that no one wants to be part of someone’s life that is affected by such scary diseases.
Though she starts out with a negative context she then begins to turn it around by illustrating how someone had gone to help a friend, assuming, that he was dying. They would tuck him into bed after giving him medicine, morphine. To her it seemed as if the world is now changing to become better being put to the test in facing this problem. She states “We are forging a new union. We are blest” (Sarton 631). Then she says that those who closed their hands to people, due to the feeling of being isolated from their home and the love that was not shown at the time are now opening …show more content…
But we have the power.” (Sarton 631) She empowers those that are afraid of try it and told us in the beginning that we can only face this with a plan. We do not know what life brings at all times but we do know that even if times get difficult we have to be there to help and comfort those in need. She feels as if the day we learn to live and saving the hour we have with people, especially with situations like this, we learn to appreciate and become a world without fear. Emphasizing again the word “Love” four times is the place we want to get to when we have been through the trial and come together as a
AIDS starting out in …show more content…
When we are diagnoses with any sickness hope and despair are the first emotions that we are so engrossed with we do not think of anything else. She then repetitively says “fear” four times with enforcement that we as people are so afraid of those with this disease that we tend to leave, distance and avoid those in society. We as a community withdraw ourselves from those with AIDS that we leave them “In the dark. Lonely and sterile” (Sarton 631). Clearly, she feels that no one wants to be part of someone’s life that is affected by such scary diseases.
Though she starts out with a negative context she then begins to turn it around by illustrating how someone had gone to help a friend, assuming, that he was dying. They would tuck him into bed after giving him medicine, morphine. To her it seemed as if the world is now changing to become better being put to the test in facing this problem. She states “We are forging a new union. We are blest” (Sarton 631). Then she says that those who closed their hands to people, due to the feeling of being isolated from their home and the love that was not shown at the time are now opening …show more content…
But we have the power.” (Sarton 631) She empowers those that are afraid of try it and told us in the beginning that we can only face this with a plan. We do not know what life brings at all times but we do know that even if times get difficult we have to be there to help and comfort those in need. She feels as if the day we learn to live and saving the hour we have with people, especially with situations like this, we learn to appreciate and become a world without fear. Emphasizing again the word “Love” four times is the place we want to get to when we have been through the trial and come together as a