Adrian Bills | SaceNo. 318614W | Text Production - Poetry Ms.O’connor
"Paper Wings"
I’ve seen you fly on paper wings.
You soared halfway around the world but you burned up in the atmosphere to send you spiraling down below.
You landed somewhere far from here with no one else around,
I tried to catch you falling down and i’m looking for you now.
He told you “Swing for the fences, son” a conversation you took nothing from.
So let us raise a glass to you, let us celebrate everything you’ve done.
Keep putting off of knowing where you’re from.
You can catch up with yourself if you run.
Statement of Intent:
My poem is about how a person with hope and great potential who threw everything away by following the wrong path in life. I use the story of Icarus as a tool to guide my poem as it is used as a metaphor for being too cocky and pursuing bad choices in life for example doing drugs. I use ‘paper wings’ to symbolise futility, this implies the protagonist is ‘flying’ on a futile path and will eventually fall. The protagonist’s bravery grows and grows until he flies too close to the sun, sending the person spiraling down. This implies the protagonist grew too careless, which sends him into an episode of depression, where his hopes and dreams are lost …show more content…
I continue this by proposing a toast to everything he has done in his life, these two lines have a hint of sarcasm and thus shows that the protagonist had potential, but threw that all away. I conclude the sonnet by giving a motivational message to the protagonist, “You can catch up with yourself if you run”, this tells the person that even though he is falling behind in life due to his failure, if he runs, he could catch up with life and change to a better
"Paper Wings"
I’ve seen you fly on paper wings.
You soared halfway around the world but you burned up in the atmosphere to send you spiraling down below.
You landed somewhere far from here with no one else around,
I tried to catch you falling down and i’m looking for you now.
He told you “Swing for the fences, son” a conversation you took nothing from.
So let us raise a glass to you, let us celebrate everything you’ve done.
Keep putting off of knowing where you’re from.
You can catch up with yourself if you run.
Statement of Intent:
My poem is about how a person with hope and great potential who threw everything away by following the wrong path in life. I use the story of Icarus as a tool to guide my poem as it is used as a metaphor for being too cocky and pursuing bad choices in life for example doing drugs. I use ‘paper wings’ to symbolise futility, this implies the protagonist is ‘flying’ on a futile path and will eventually fall. The protagonist’s bravery grows and grows until he flies too close to the sun, sending the person spiraling down. This implies the protagonist grew too careless, which sends him into an episode of depression, where his hopes and dreams are lost …show more content…
I continue this by proposing a toast to everything he has done in his life, these two lines have a hint of sarcasm and thus shows that the protagonist had potential, but threw that all away. I conclude the sonnet by giving a motivational message to the protagonist, “You can catch up with yourself if you run”, this tells the person that even though he is falling behind in life due to his failure, if he runs, he could catch up with life and change to a better