The Unambiguous Poem: Lying

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In the unambiguous poem written by unknown poet a.v. problems such are addressed such as lying and judgement in society, These things symbolize how warped and unacceptant society has become towards people within it. A.v. shows the deranged ideals society has come to abide by and how people are being manipulated everyday clueless to what is really taking place. The creator wants to bring it to the public's attention that society says what it needs to, to manipulate the lives inside it. Lying is a dangerous game and a.v. brings attention to the matter to show others that what they are hearing is a lie. The composer appeals to the idea …show more content…
For example, the models people see in magazines. Publicist have found away to enhanced models very heavily to the point you wouldn’t recognize them on the street. Lies like these are what the public feeds on and believe everyone should look like the women in the magazines thereby judging other women in society to be “fat” and “ugly”. People judge by society’s expectations and it is not fair. People get judged for things as small as having reebok shoes instead nikes, because they have reebok shoes they must be poor or they would by the nikes. Another subject touched in the poem was people’s feelings. A.v. said, “& our feelings are what they forget”. Society as a whole has no idea how much it impacts every individual everyday. People get killed over a pair of shoes because society tells them that to fit in you have to have these shoes. In the poem written by an anonymous poet who calls himself/herself by “a.v.” in the poem book titled “Poems by ScarletWaters” Society is being laughed at, society and the need to justify the reasons for a

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