Award-winning poet and essayist, Charles Simic, in his personal essay, “A Reunion with Boredom”, reminisces about a time with silence and boredom. Simic’s, purpose is to show the true effect of technology on the lives of the user, the effect beeing inability to remain bored for more than a few minutes. He adopts a pitiful tone in order to bring prominence to the fixation of technology in his community.
Multiple times Simic helps the reader visualize his thoughts 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 …show more content…
Simic explains how living in rural areas allowed some boredom to sneak back into life. “At almost any hour of the day, one could hear several radios tuned to different stations at the same time,” Simic said about his time living in a New York apartment. Simic also describes life in rural areas, “Every major storm brings down power lines which were a low priority due to small populations” (Simic 375). The small descriptive anecdotes allow the reader to be flashed back to a time of where mundane days of power outages left the victim with books and board games for entertainment. The first quote lets the reader see even older technology has the same effect as newer. Simic provides little peeks into his world using imagery. One example is “While Irene ran around the yard beating up trees like the riot police”, another is “I recalled that moment in my room as I passed the statues of the Greek and Egyptian gods. They looked as bored as I did in my old house” (Simic 375; 376). Simic connects the reader to the idea of boredom which is sometimes so hard to find while always being occupied by
Multiple times Simic helps the reader visualize his thoughts 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 …show more content…
Simic explains how living in rural areas allowed some boredom to sneak back into life. “At almost any hour of the day, one could hear several radios tuned to different stations at the same time,” Simic said about his time living in a New York apartment. Simic also describes life in rural areas, “Every major storm brings down power lines which were a low priority due to small populations” (Simic 375). The small descriptive anecdotes allow the reader to be flashed back to a time of where mundane days of power outages left the victim with books and board games for entertainment. The first quote lets the reader see even older technology has the same effect as newer. Simic provides little peeks into his world using imagery. One example is “While Irene ran around the yard beating up trees like the riot police”, another is “I recalled that moment in my room as I passed the statues of the Greek and Egyptian gods. They looked as bored as I did in my old house” (Simic 375; 376). Simic connects the reader to the idea of boredom which is sometimes so hard to find while always being occupied by