With the unknown laying on the ocean floor, few have the courage to dive to the bottom. With this courage, the author of "For the Young Anarchists" believed to know exactly what to do with a hardened sea urchin. The author uses the profession of oyster harvesting to oppose that we, as humans, make work difficult.
As the poem starts, the author talks about how the seagull drops oysters to get food to survive. While this does not portray to how humans open oysters, it also tell the reader that the seagull choses the easy unsanitary way of life. In a way, the author is using symbolism from the seagulls, divers, and harvesters. The seagulls represent the lazy workers that take the easy way out. In turn, the divers are the middle men, the ones that supply the dealer. While the harvesters are the dealers, they work to create the best product for the buyer. The poem constucts "an extended metaphor implicitly comparing anarchist and other kinds of transformative social and political activity to opening an oyster" (Jaeckle 2). …show more content…
With the beginning line, " [W]hatever we hunger for", the author concludes the word "we" with including him/herself (Rich line 1). Jaeckle described that " it might appear as if Rich is including herself among the anarchists, but that is not necessarily the case. the key phrase in this context is the one which opens the poem: '[W]hatever we hunger for.' The young anarchist may hunger for one kind of end result, whereas a feminist activist, for example, might hunger for another" (Jaeckle
As the poem starts, the author talks about how the seagull drops oysters to get food to survive. While this does not portray to how humans open oysters, it also tell the reader that the seagull choses the easy unsanitary way of life. In a way, the author is using symbolism from the seagulls, divers, and harvesters. The seagulls represent the lazy workers that take the easy way out. In turn, the divers are the middle men, the ones that supply the dealer. While the harvesters are the dealers, they work to create the best product for the buyer. The poem constucts "an extended metaphor implicitly comparing anarchist and other kinds of transformative social and political activity to opening an oyster" (Jaeckle 2). …show more content…
With the beginning line, " [W]hatever we hunger for", the author concludes the word "we" with including him/herself (Rich line 1). Jaeckle described that " it might appear as if Rich is including herself among the anarchists, but that is not necessarily the case. the key phrase in this context is the one which opens the poem: '[W]hatever we hunger for.' The young anarchist may hunger for one kind of end result, whereas a feminist activist, for example, might hunger for another" (Jaeckle