Award winning poet and essayist, Charles Simic, in his personal thinking essay, ”A Reunion With Boredom”, reminisces in a time with silence and boredom. Simic’s, purpose is to show how hard it is to be bored in modern day. He adopts a pitiful tone in order to bring prominence to the fixation of technology in his community.
Multiple times Simic helps the reader revisualize his personal essay by using analogies. Throughout the essay he uses phrases like “we sit with our heads bowed as if trying to summon spirits”, and “we are only puppets jerked this way by whatever device we think we are operating”(Simic 375;376). Charles Simic uses analogies in order to assist the reader in taking a third person look at themselves, and truly acknowledging what effect these devices have while operating them. …show more content…
Simic states that “Thousands used to die of ennui”, which means dying of boredom (Simic 375). Also he says “in many homes of Americans the T.V. is on 24 hours a day” (Simic 374). Those subtle over exaggerations plant the seed, in the reader’s head, that technology is controlling lives of many Americans. The statements also help anyone reading see how much technology is a part of our day to day life and shows the invasion it has had on the lives of the user. Simic accompanies the hyperboles with realism to create a differing feel sentence to sentence. Two examples are “as I sat in a dark house for 3 days after hurricane Irene”, and “the days were not much better than nights with overcast skies”. The realistic look at spending time in silence brings back memories of boredom for Simic. The bland descriptions of the days after Irene bring people to a time where boredom was not uncommon, and silence was easy to come
Multiple times Simic helps the reader revisualize his personal essay by using analogies. Throughout the essay he uses phrases like “we sit with our heads bowed as if trying to summon spirits”, and “we are only puppets jerked this way by whatever device we think we are operating”(Simic 375;376). Charles Simic uses analogies in order to assist the reader in taking a third person look at themselves, and truly acknowledging what effect these devices have while operating them. …show more content…
Simic states that “Thousands used to die of ennui”, which means dying of boredom (Simic 375). Also he says “in many homes of Americans the T.V. is on 24 hours a day” (Simic 374). Those subtle over exaggerations plant the seed, in the reader’s head, that technology is controlling lives of many Americans. The statements also help anyone reading see how much technology is a part of our day to day life and shows the invasion it has had on the lives of the user. Simic accompanies the hyperboles with realism to create a differing feel sentence to sentence. Two examples are “as I sat in a dark house for 3 days after hurricane Irene”, and “the days were not much better than nights with overcast skies”. The realistic look at spending time in silence brings back memories of boredom for Simic. The bland descriptions of the days after Irene bring people to a time where boredom was not uncommon, and silence was easy to come