Have you ever felt like you’re an outcast, unwanted, unlike everyone else you see every day? It’s hard to try to fit in if you don’t share the same interests or have different hobbies as everyone. Tomas Tranströmer felt the pressure and shame of being an outsider due to the fact that he had no father figure constantly with him. In The Name, he was driving on a highway and pulled off to the side of the road as he became tired. After he slept for hours he awoke confused. It took him a while to understand who he was and where he was as he watched cars zoom by him. In the last paragraph, he clarifies that it 's hell not knowing who you are or what you 're doing when everyone else is on the fast track to success in their life when he 's struggling
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This space acts as a rehab center while the individual takes time to focus on what’s important in life again. There are ancient stories about this place that have been passed down through communities but it is difficult to get to those communities and hear the stories. Tranströmer has the reader believe that the speaker is an outsider due to the way he depicts society through The Name and The Clearing by his word choice and tone.
In The Name, the speaker shows how he is apart from society and the "normal people" using word choice. I feel that the highway symbolizes the normality of everyone. That the cars, his community and society, are everyone moving on with their life not taking a moment to stop and think about what 's going on because they don 't need to. As a child in primary school, Tranströmerfelt like an outcast due to the fact that he did not constantly have a father figure around him. In the Swedish culture back then, it was rare for family to get a divorce and so his classmates gave him pity and looked down on him because of this. After the speaker awoke from his slumber from the side of the highway he was puzzled and confused by just about everything"Where am I? WHO am I? I am something that has just woken up in a …show more content…
A forest symbolizes a transitional period; in The Clearing, the clearing represents a place for people who have lost their way and become unlike the rest of society, i.e. people who understand their purpose in life. The clearing is a place for people to go and rediscover themselves. "Deep in the forest there 's an unexpected clearing which can be reached only by someone who has lost their way. " (1-2). There were many stories about this clearing and the legends that go along with it. However, it had been passed down through uneducated communities who were illiterate and because they could not write down the stories, they were soon forgotten and died with them. It is rare to find someone who has the legends and myths about the clearing and those people are hard to locate. The reason why not a lot of people have the stories in the first place is because it is rare for people to get into the clearing. If someone does find and is allowed to enter it, they don’t always come out to share their experience. Another example is how the people spent time in the house that is no longer there. There are stones laid out to outline a house that once stood there. If the house is no longer there, it probably means that it’s been there for decades, which gives the people who’ve stayed in the clearing an opportunity to have different
This space acts as a rehab center while the individual takes time to focus on what’s important in life again. There are ancient stories about this place that have been passed down through communities but it is difficult to get to those communities and hear the stories. Tranströmer has the reader believe that the speaker is an outsider due to the way he depicts society through The Name and The Clearing by his word choice and tone.
In The Name, the speaker shows how he is apart from society and the "normal people" using word choice. I feel that the highway symbolizes the normality of everyone. That the cars, his community and society, are everyone moving on with their life not taking a moment to stop and think about what 's going on because they don 't need to. As a child in primary school, Tranströmerfelt like an outcast due to the fact that he did not constantly have a father figure around him. In the Swedish culture back then, it was rare for family to get a divorce and so his classmates gave him pity and looked down on him because of this. After the speaker awoke from his slumber from the side of the highway he was puzzled and confused by just about everything"Where am I? WHO am I? I am something that has just woken up in a …show more content…
A forest symbolizes a transitional period; in The Clearing, the clearing represents a place for people who have lost their way and become unlike the rest of society, i.e. people who understand their purpose in life. The clearing is a place for people to go and rediscover themselves. "Deep in the forest there 's an unexpected clearing which can be reached only by someone who has lost their way. " (1-2). There were many stories about this clearing and the legends that go along with it. However, it had been passed down through uneducated communities who were illiterate and because they could not write down the stories, they were soon forgotten and died with them. It is rare to find someone who has the legends and myths about the clearing and those people are hard to locate. The reason why not a lot of people have the stories in the first place is because it is rare for people to get into the clearing. If someone does find and is allowed to enter it, they don’t always come out to share their experience. Another example is how the people spent time in the house that is no longer there. There are stones laid out to outline a house that once stood there. If the house is no longer there, it probably means that it’s been there for decades, which gives the people who’ve stayed in the clearing an opportunity to have different