Three Controversial Messages
Messages Through the Poems of Auden and Cummings
There are three messages in the poems, The Unknown Citizen, Old Age Sticks, and Anyone lived in a pretty how town. All of the messages have to do with the way we live our lives and our outlooks on life. All of these poems have controversial themes and can be hard to understand. They show the looks on life and these three messages through different characters. These characters consist of an old person, an ex-patriot, and two lovers. Three messages that anyone could learn from is stepping outside the box, learning to listen others, and living life to the fullest.
In the poem, “Citizen”, the ex-patriot believes everyone is treated as a number rather than an actual human being. The message of this poem is that we should do things out of the normal for society. The person in the poem was considered to be very “normal”. He was an American man who had a family of five children, money, and an education. He feels like none of the stuff he does matter because in the end he will die and he is just a number. The society assumes this man is happy because he has money and because he is free. The poem says, “Was he free? Was he …show more content…
Cummings uses a very controversial topic that may be hard to understand that has to do with the way we view the elderly and their opinion. We tend to not listen to our elders that give us advice. As a younger generation, we always believe we are correct and that older people are wrong. However, most of the time they are right because they have been in that same situation. We should learn to take more advice from the elderly and listen to what they have to say because chances are they’re right. In the poem it says, “The youth laughs”, implying that the youth doesn’t care about those opinions or think they are absurd. We should take the advice of the elderly because we never know what they will have to say and it could have a great impact on
Messages Through the Poems of Auden and Cummings
There are three messages in the poems, The Unknown Citizen, Old Age Sticks, and Anyone lived in a pretty how town. All of the messages have to do with the way we live our lives and our outlooks on life. All of these poems have controversial themes and can be hard to understand. They show the looks on life and these three messages through different characters. These characters consist of an old person, an ex-patriot, and two lovers. Three messages that anyone could learn from is stepping outside the box, learning to listen others, and living life to the fullest.
In the poem, “Citizen”, the ex-patriot believes everyone is treated as a number rather than an actual human being. The message of this poem is that we should do things out of the normal for society. The person in the poem was considered to be very “normal”. He was an American man who had a family of five children, money, and an education. He feels like none of the stuff he does matter because in the end he will die and he is just a number. The society assumes this man is happy because he has money and because he is free. The poem says, “Was he free? Was he …show more content…
Cummings uses a very controversial topic that may be hard to understand that has to do with the way we view the elderly and their opinion. We tend to not listen to our elders that give us advice. As a younger generation, we always believe we are correct and that older people are wrong. However, most of the time they are right because they have been in that same situation. We should learn to take more advice from the elderly and listen to what they have to say because chances are they’re right. In the poem it says, “The youth laughs”, implying that the youth doesn’t care about those opinions or think they are absurd. We should take the advice of the elderly because we never know what they will have to say and it could have a great impact on