Diverse Poets
...ht and the moon gives the reader the idea that the human race is no longer able to conceive rational thought. Moss explains that the change of time has developed a distorted human understanding due to our polluted ways. Figuratively, the human mind has been clouded with fog, and remains clouded due to our comfort levels. Humans no longer crave that knowledge that challenges thought. He leaves the feeling of potential moral decay upon our race. According to Moss anger grows within our developing environment due to our evil ways. He also explains the social severity of our choices in problem solving. Societies in general seem to find ways to “candy-coat” or justify their social behaviors. Today societies allow the change of time to justify the righteousness of unjust behaviors. Moss explains with the growth of acceptance, our human race defends religious killings, homosexual killings, drinking, smoking, sex and violence. The building anger of Moss takes a form of humor in his sarcastic line “The Prince of Darkness is on the phone.” This line expresses his feelings of how lightly we as humans take the evil doings in our lives. He was probably mocking our race by saying the devil is only a phone call away. The poem “The Long Island Night,” to me, basically means that through the change of time we as humans have polluted our ways while blocking any potential light or understanding from reaching our minds, and then we validate our thinking with our irrational humor. “This Be The Verse,” by Philip Larkin takes on an extraordinary form of rage. Philip Larkin's theme in the poem also deals with time. He directs his anger at many generations of parents. "They fuck you up, your Mum and Dad/They may not mean to, but they do/They fill you with the faults they had/And add some extra, just for you," is a passage in the poem that gives the reader an uneasy feeling about families. Larkin seems to be struggling with accepting his faults without ceasing to blame his parents for all his flaws. He not only blames the generation of his parents, but the generations before. It is one big timeline of bad parents that pass down their uneducated ways of guiding children to becoming mature successful adults. He warns the readers to "Get out early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself." This verse makes you feel as though the only way the problem can stop is if human nature stops. It seems as though Larkin builds up anger inside of him as he wrote this poem. He uses derogatory language to express his bitter hatred towards the whole concept of parenting. He makes the matter more personal in the text by using Mum and Dad instead of mother and father. It shows that it is directly aimed at his culture. The last poem I looked at was “This Is a Photography of Me,” by Margaret Atwood. She uses this poem as a foundation for a loving memory that in a course of time disintegrates. The memory involves a family’s vacation cabin and an event that haunts their family. The family’s cabin no longer shows significant importance to the family due to a family death that occurs at the cabin. I believe it was a child because of the undeveloped thoughts. The child is very confused on its location or how big he/she was and makes a claim concerning a distortion of water and light. The child seems unable to clearly make out its speech while the ideas he/she creates leave the reader unsure. The poem’s style gives the reader the idea the family’s deceased child is looking down from heaven with great sadness because his/her family’s abandonment of the cabin and its being due to their personal pain. The passage state the words of the dead child who ponders on a picture taken of the cabin’s surroundings the...