With them wishing for this all the time they don’t enjoy the life they still have and appreciate what they had before, for they see this little four year old girl with the same sight as them at their elder age. The second theme is seen with the little girl remaining happy all the time and even at the age of four, almost five she remains happy. "The gas wore off, she found the hole in her face / (you know, it never bled?), / stayed happy, even when I went to pieces." ("Through a Glass Eye, Lightly" 28-30). With those verses it tells how a little girl was able to remain happy even though her eye was removed, and how the narrator was bothered by their eye removal with great emotion. The little girl knew that even though her eye was gone she was able to remain happy and that is what she did, giving this poem another strong theme behind it. The setting of the poem takes place in an eye care place, and it remains closely in modern time. Throughout the poem it does change time frames but it only goes through a three to four years of time frame. The narrator’s goal is to keep this feeling timeless, however it is possible for the feeling of understanding to go away. As the future comes along and the possibility medical technology improving, the ability to cure things such as sight lost is possible. Even though this could be a blockade to the timeless feel the poem seems to be going for a setting that will remain through anyone’s life, and to help anyone understand that even though something bad happened, they have the power to remain happy. The narrator of the poem seems to be an elder lady who herself also lost an eye. The narrator is explicit for she tells the reader about the little girl and how she always remains happy throughout her life even with her struggles, and the narrator also tells a little about herself and the other people in the waiting room; however that is mostly just generalized. The poem switches tenses two times, one time from present tense to past, and then from past back to present tense. The poem remains in first person without change. The narrator of the poem doesn’t seem to be the writer, but an old lady or man. The reason the
With them wishing for this all the time they don’t enjoy the life they still have and appreciate what they had before, for they see this little four year old girl with the same sight as them at their elder age. The second theme is seen with the little girl remaining happy all the time and even at the age of four, almost five she remains happy. "The gas wore off, she found the hole in her face / (you know, it never bled?), / stayed happy, even when I went to pieces." ("Through a Glass Eye, Lightly" 28-30). With those verses it tells how a little girl was able to remain happy even though her eye was removed, and how the narrator was bothered by their eye removal with great emotion. The little girl knew that even though her eye was gone she was able to remain happy and that is what she did, giving this poem another strong theme behind it. The setting of the poem takes place in an eye care place, and it remains closely in modern time. Throughout the poem it does change time frames but it only goes through a three to four years of time frame. The narrator’s goal is to keep this feeling timeless, however it is possible for the feeling of understanding to go away. As the future comes along and the possibility medical technology improving, the ability to cure things such as sight lost is possible. Even though this could be a blockade to the timeless feel the poem seems to be going for a setting that will remain through anyone’s life, and to help anyone understand that even though something bad happened, they have the power to remain happy. The narrator of the poem seems to be an elder lady who herself also lost an eye. The narrator is explicit for she tells the reader about the little girl and how she always remains happy throughout her life even with her struggles, and the narrator also tells a little about herself and the other people in the waiting room; however that is mostly just generalized. The poem switches tenses two times, one time from present tense to past, and then from past back to present tense. The poem remains in first person without change. The narrator of the poem doesn’t seem to be the writer, but an old lady or man. The reason the