Jason E. Lewis Analysis

Albert Einstein claims that “the most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” Often humans try to puzzle together lives of others, however, they don't realize that a person can never be completely figured out despite possibly knowing everything about them. Through the use of a visual poetical form, Jason E. Lewis depicts the true art of the mystery of identity in Nine. The mysterious puzzle of Jason E. Lewis’s life is difficult to figure out completely. This poem is depicted onto a nine tile sliding puzzle that customarily contains a solitary image that one can arrange or disarrange; however Lewis throws a curveball in this piece: every time the reader moves a tile— perhaps with the expectations of completing the image— the image switches (Lewis 00:20). This represents the complexity of figuring …show more content…
The poem itself states facts that he is “of a good family… [and was] rebron… twenty seventh july nineteen seventy” (Lewis 00:00). These are just basic facts that can be used as building blocks to determine menaingful information. One picture, if it could be formed, depicts the fall leaves that eventually will drop to earth’s ground (Lewis 00:32). The fall leaves symbolize the superficial details of the subject’s life, which is essentially meaningless, as it shows no substance about the person as the details are as useless as the leaves will be once they fall to the ground. However these details can be analyzed to discover a new birth of meaning and information, just as the leaves go into the soil and provide nutrition to mother the existence of other life evolving from it. Anytime a picture is mostly formed, the ninth piece is missing, making a part of each picture incomplete (Lewis 00:40). This shows that no matter how close someone is in discovering one's identity, a part of the piece will always be