The Bluebird By Charles Bukowski Analysis

Charles Bukowski was an American poet, novelist and short story writer, responsible for the thousands of poems written in the dirty realism literacy movement and was heavily influenced by the cultural, economic and social ambience of his home city in Los Angeles. A violent father, who at the time was out of work frequently during the great depression and often took his anger and pain out on his son, beating him regularly, up until his teenage years, marred Bukowski’s childhood. The poet became reliant on alcohol at a young age and soon become a rather spiritless, underachiever as a way to rebel against not only his father, but the society that his father desired him to be a productive member of. Bukowski’s poetry often consists of a forlorn and cynical context and details issues such as, the desperate lives of men on the verge of; mental breakdown, insanity and suicide. This is heavily reflected in Bukowski’s poem, ‘The Bluebird,’ written in 1992. …show more content…
The enormous vulnerability that is acquired by men is subjugated under the social structure where weakness is disadvantage and tears are vulnerability. However, throughout his poem, Bukowski highlights the feeling that we all possess in the deep, dark corners of our hearts; sensitive and breakable. Along with it’s thought provoking meaning, Bukowski uses an arsenal of effective poetic devices that play the role of pulling at the heart strings of the readers, thereby heightening the emotion and mood and allowing the reader to relate the poem to the events that are happening or may have occurred in their own