Analysis Of To Drink By Jane Hirshfield

Human beings love to communicate with one another and share private matters with each other. Without interacting with one another, the existence of human beings would not have lasted this long. Animals are able to interact with each other, and are bound together mostly with their own kind of species. However, animals lack the skill of reason, morality and consciousness that human beings have, which makes us different from other living creatures. Moreover, human beings intend to communicate and interact with everyone around, but mostly the ones we love and share common interests with. Although people communicate and interact with one another every day, we are not perfect human beings. Human beings tend to make a lot of mistakes, learn from their mistakes, and help everyone around us including ourselves. In “To Drink” Jane Hirshfield emphasized the notion that people need each other in this world to sustain their stressful lives. This includes communication, connection, and empathy in …show more content…
In addition, “I want to gather your darkness in my hands, to cup it like water and drink” (1). It could also signify that one of the couple is in trauma, depression or stressed about the daily life event. Whereas, the other couple ensures that everything would be all right. If they both depend and trust each other. Human beings need love and affection in order to cope in this chaotic society. Once a child lacks love and affection, it causes psychological, physical, and social dysfunction. Hence, the child might dead without attention and affection from any human being. Nonetheless, the title of the poem “to drink” draws the attention of curiosity of the readers. Therefore, signifying marriage, sadness or friendship that people encounter in their lives. The poem draws a critical question. Whereas, is a person ready to drink the cup of sadness and happiness from another person’s