The Gift Of Tongue Poem Analysis

When the anthology The Gift of Tongues was published, a majority of the writers were not a popular fan of the anthology due to the fact the majority of the people felt that poems should not be read out of context. At first I agreed with the critics during that time period considering the fact that every poem I read, I felt I was in a time machine heading off to different time periods. As I continue reading the poems anthologized by Sam Hamill, I traced this anthology in the epithetical point of view and I learned that Sam yearns us to feel the same empathy in different ways which the different poems are emphasizing. The empathetic feelings he tries to examine is sorrow and he tried to emphasize this from a life point of view and a regrettable point of view. Life point of view is an empathy emphasizing sorrow due to the fact that in life you will feel sorry to the people that are broke. Robert Stund, “Considering Poverty and Homelessness,” talks about thoughts of …show more content…
Su Tung- p’o poem “On First Arriving to Huang-Chou” explains how a person’s life is going downhill and how he regrets doing the things he had done during the past. It is shown from the first few lines when Tung says, “Funny that I couldn’t keep my mouth shut; it gets worse the older I grow” (p 'o 261). From the first stanza and on the author is feeling the karma of his actions coming back to him. This can force the readers to feel that they did not listen to people of authority due to the fact that the lessons being taught were not significant them yet. As people grow older in their lives, they established regret in a situation that they should have learned to overcome in their childhood, but they did not. Although people in life will regret many situations in life, it will broaden themselves to become exceptional