The poem depicts an explicit view on the purpose of literature today, as we generation Z and future generations are straying away from the meanings of literature to a more scientific understanding.The scientific community and the Language arts community are at a conflict together as one community seeks only the answers while the other takes the individual, and guides them on a journey that will bring them to the depths of critical thinking. This is implied in the poem when the author suggests dropping a mouse into the poem searching and feeling the walls for the light switch. The mouse represents us, a timid creature with tunnel vision, focused exclusively for an escape rather than observe our environment. The searching and feeling
