The fishes are happy and nature is freer with exciting lives while the man-made world works for their happiness but it does not come to most people. Nature has an effortless happy life and humans have hard working unhappy lives. The poem is trying to show that if humans lived more like nature, then they will be free and happy to do what they want.
The punctuation in the poem is set out as a structure in a series of statements made by the two brothers. Colons are used at the end of the first line on each verse, this is to make it clear the is it that person which is speaking in the rest of the verse.
At first when I read the poem I thought it was just about whether the fishes were happy but by the end I found it was more than that. It was about how you tell whether something else feels the same way you do and whether it is real. The poem has made me think about what makes other life forms in the world happy and what they are thinking about the world around us. I do this by putting myself in their position and pretend to live their lifestyle to get an idea of how they think and feel about the world they live in.
This Room
This poem was written by Imtiaz Dharker, it is about a room which seems to be full of different objects rising in the air. The room is changing and struggle to be set free, almost like it is a creature breaking out of a cage. In the room is a celebration of some kind about being alive and no one wants to leave, the person forgets where is because of the celebration. The writer ends the poem by describing himself outside the house clapping. After reading the title for the first time I thought that the poem was about restrictions and boundaries, as if someone was being held captive. I also thought that it could have been about someone’s identity being contained. The room could have represented freedom which people fight and risks there lives to get to, but it is being controlled by the more powerful figure of society which has influence over others but may not be the right person for the important job of command.
In this poem there is a sense of wanting to be reborn and to achieve the full potentional, as if the celebration taking place in this room was making people realize what there life is really like and they could have done much better. This would make people frustrated because they have the need for knowledge and not being able to grab the opportunities which may have been given them.
The relationships being explored here is the relationship between what man creates and what natures liberates. Also he looks at what he doesn’t like in himself, and what he wants him to be able to do.
This poem is trying to get us to learn about what we should use effectively and what we shouldn’t take for granted in the world around us. It shows humans what we should really value in our lives, such as the good times and to learn from the bad.
At the start of the poem the poet explains the room is breaking free, at the end he has broken outside the room. Thus showing that he identifies himself as being trapped, then free of materialism. He leaves it until the end to say that he gets himself free, this shows that it takes time to understand what he should do in his life and that experiences show you the way in which to be in the world we live in. This poem shows that we only know what to do when we are older, but by this time it is too late to enjoy the lives we had to its fullest.
Only one line starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop in this poem. Thus the poems structure is very much like the man’s impression of his life, fragmented and incomplete.
After reading the poem through and discussing it, my thoughts on the poems title has changed. My view is that the room isn’t an object but it is actually a metaphoric symbol of the persons life and how he wants to reinvent himself so he can have a more fulfilling life. I think now that the title ‘This room’ shows that it is an example of a way to live our lives, look live with what we like; happiness, love, peace. This room is a sign to everyone person who is not living to their dreams and full potionals.
