The nature and environment in the poem “Carnivorous Sponges of the Antarctic Ocean” by Sarah Lindsay make a statement about the errors of society and the remedies. This is not the first time Ms. Lindsay has used her Bachelor’s of Art in English and Creative Writing to utilize the metaphors of animals in her poem to tell an idea. In her poems “Tell the bees” and “The Thai Elephant Orchestra” Sarah did the same. Sarah Lindsay use Carnivorous sponges to define what the meaning of life is. Sarah Lindsay creatively uses the nature of the carnivorous sponges community to show the audience a flaw in society and the remedy to this disease and the symptoms.
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The first voice, in italic font voice from the point of the sponge communities, “Currents feed us Shadows pass between us/and the light when there is light....” (Lindsay) The second voice of the poem, is from the standpoint of a straightforward, logical, scientific mind that tells the audience how he or she views the sponges lifestyle. “Faceless, gourd-shaped animals clamped/to the floor of a frigid sea,/they wait for the sway of water to introduce” (Lindsay) I believe the reason Sarah Lindsay broke the poem into two separate voice is for a metaphorical purpose. Improving Clarity to us us that to a scientist, whoever he or she is, sees sponges appear to be lifeless. But to a sponge, it's own lifestyle, even though they say they do not shriver or complain their own life means everything to themselves. Sarah Lindsay used the sponges as a metaphor to show the meaning of life is different for every person depending on their community, hierarchy of choices, and one’s definition of himself or herself. David Sze, an Amherst College alumni agrees with Sarah Lindsay saying that if the way a person grows up will determine what a meaningful life is to them, he or she will believe this is how life is meant to be lived. Mr. Sze states that the average person roots himself or herself in their communities and the morals and ideals they grow up with will stay with themselves throughout life. “As the cultural and social world in which we root our identities splinter and drift apart, our identities move with them”(David Sze). Sarah Lindsay’s sponges speak of the same truth. “pockets in which we keep nothing./We hold to life as though it is dear to us.” (Lindsay, line 30-31). In Sarah Lindsay’s nature in the poem “Carnivorous Sponges of the Antarctic Ocean” she uses the analytic voice and the sponges voices to show the audience an easy remedy flaw in society. The flaw is just because as an
Before diving into the metaphor that Sarah Lindsay creates, we have to understand her literal …show more content…
The first voice, in italic font voice from the point of the sponge communities, “Currents feed us Shadows pass between us/and the light when there is light....” (Lindsay) The second voice of the poem, is from the standpoint of a straightforward, logical, scientific mind that tells the audience how he or she views the sponges lifestyle. “Faceless, gourd-shaped animals clamped/to the floor of a frigid sea,/they wait for the sway of water to introduce” (Lindsay) I believe the reason Sarah Lindsay broke the poem into two separate voice is for a metaphorical purpose. Improving Clarity to us us that to a scientist, whoever he or she is, sees sponges appear to be lifeless. But to a sponge, it's own lifestyle, even though they say they do not shriver or complain their own life means everything to themselves. Sarah Lindsay used the sponges as a metaphor to show the meaning of life is different for every person depending on their community, hierarchy of choices, and one’s definition of himself or herself. David Sze, an Amherst College alumni agrees with Sarah Lindsay saying that if the way a person grows up will determine what a meaningful life is to them, he or she will believe this is how life is meant to be lived. Mr. Sze states that the average person roots himself or herself in their communities and the morals and ideals they grow up with will stay with themselves throughout life. “As the cultural and social world in which we root our identities splinter and drift apart, our identities move with them”(David Sze). Sarah Lindsay’s sponges speak of the same truth. “pockets in which we keep nothing./We hold to life as though it is dear to us.” (Lindsay, line 30-31). In Sarah Lindsay’s nature in the poem “Carnivorous Sponges of the Antarctic Ocean” she uses the analytic voice and the sponges voices to show the audience an easy remedy flaw in society. The flaw is just because as an