Smile Tha Poetry Analysis

There’s nothing that puts the message of mental illness out in the open better than poetry. Slam poetry has raw emotion, it’s real and so many people understand what that person is talking about. Depression can be a monster, a literal soul sucking demon. It can be big or small or somewhere in between, “Mom, my depression is a shape shifter. One day it is as small as a firefly in the palm of a bear, The next, it’s the bear.” (Benaim, 1-3.) When living with depression the days are unpredictable, in the morning you’ll never want to leave your bed, the sheets will lie over your body and hug you so close to the bed that you just want to go back to sleep, but you can’t so you get out of bed, and everything becomes a mess and by the afternoon things will start to be okay. People write articles, books, stories and make sure to say it in movies and television that “Happy is a decision.”(Benaim, 31.) when it really isn’t for most people, happy is a smile …show more content…
Reading poetry that is about mental illness lets others know that all different kinds of people suffer with something, whether it’d be depression, bipolar, or anger issues. “Every day is war to me, A struggle to obtain reality.” (Campbell, 1-2) These lines represent what the battle of a mental illness is like, it’s similar to fighting in a war, not exactly like it but it’s close to it. A war could take days, weeks, months or even years to resolve, so do mental illnesses. Mental illness sometimes seems pointless to live with, why are there people who are born like this, with something chemically wrong inside their head. “Sometimes I feel that I'm one mistake from losing all I've suffered for. While every day is a success, I am tired of my war” (Campbell, 14-17) No one enjoys mental illness, it’s a soul eating monster that has no remorse for the weak. Mental illness is something hard to fight, and it’s the biggest success when you