Letter to the Dead Response
...hat cannot be cured by doctors. He then says, “…and, as always, voluptuous women seducing us with their mouths and legs.” Here I get the feeling of him pointing out more evil in the world, this being the evil of lust. After reading more of the poem, I began to realize that in the beginning of the stanza, the author will changes that are taking place today, then at the end of the stanza he finishes it off by saying something that has not changed. Here for example, “Some astronauts stay in space six months or more, testing equipment and solitude. In each Olympics new records are predicted and in the countries social advances and setbacks.” Then, for the last line of this stanza, the author writes, “…But not a single bird has changed its song with the times.” Here Affonso points out the ordinary things in life that have never changed since the beginning of time. He also does this when he says “…the ants and the bees continue faithful to their work.” This style he has taken on is very enjoyable because it really makes you think about the materialistic things in the world versus the no materialistic things, then you put those into perspective and realize which are the most important. The poet is trying to say that, even though we have had advances in technology and various other areas in life, nothing has really changed as far as the meaning of life. Affonso says that if anything, the new technology has made us worse off than we were before. He says, “…but we have amazing computers that keep us from thinking.” The reader get the sense that the writer believes that these new computers may do a lot of work for us, but we as a people are more lazy than ever because we don’t have to do things on our own. We can type anything into a computer and it does the work for us. I, for one, agree with the author on this point. Computers and techno...