Make Me Sadness In A Fish Summary

Poem #1 Reaction Reading this poem makes me sad. Sad for the deaf who feel isolated from the rest of the world. For those who are neglected from their own families. I think her analogy of the fish in a fish tank strongly illustrates what it can feel like to be deaf; surrounded by the hearing, but excluded from their world. You can see that she feels like her deaf community is her real family and her blood relatives feel more like strangers. It would be hard to have a family that didn’t care for you the way that a family should- with unconditional love and support. She feels alive with the people of her culture, and yet so miserable around the rest of society. Another strong analogy she uses to describe deafness is the plague. The hearing …show more content…
Hope that maybe someone will come along and defy the stereotypical experiences the deaf encounter with the hearing. His writing is open and deep. He explains that he is a person, like anyone else. People usually see him for his hearing impairment and that is all they see. He hopes that people will see him for more. That they can look beyond his inability to hear and see the human he is inside. This poem also has tones of sadness and pain, which can be seen in the experiences he describes. In the end though, his poem finishes hopeful. Being deaf hasn’t crushed his spirits regarding the hearing culture completely. He still longs for the hearing to become a part of his culture. Though he has been discriminated against by the hearing, he still is open to the idea of sharing his world with them and as he said, “I just might love you …show more content…
The author of the first poem takes a very straightforward approach in her writing. She gives detailed examples and tells us about events she’s experienced and her feelings about those events. In the second author’s poem, he uses his words in a straightforward manner, yet his poem is written in a more artistic way that is less specific to his life. His poem is possibly more relatable for the deaf community since he mainly uses detailed examples that are still vague enough to not directly relate to him, but rather relate to the deaf community as a whole. He takes from his experiences along with what his culture experiences. The first poem felt like more like a story and the second seemed more like what would be expected of typical poem. When looking at the moods and impressions left from each author’s writing, the first poem’s overall theme was dark and sad, with few notes of happiness. Though the second poem did contain less happy, more real parts, overall, the theme of hope prevailed. While these poems had many differences between them, they both illustrated a similar, heartbreaking truth the deaf community faces. Deaf people don’t feel they are treated like human beings by most of the hearing community. These deaf writers both expressed their feelings about the difficulties they face through their