The Desert :: essays research papers

The serviceman midsection not only supplies keep but it as well as represents feelings and emotions. In the Desert uses intense imagery to tonality a vivid picture while also using eyeshade of location and symbolism to send a message about human emotion and feelings. Although this rime is brief it contains a very powerful prognosticate about the human heart and emotions.     This poem appears to be written by a person that has just unconnected a loved one, although this poem does not seem to be about death. The poem opens with the image of a "naked" masher alone in a "desert". This paints an arouse image in the mind of the reader, but it also has a deeper meaning. This "beast" of a man was deserted and left alone by soulfulness that he was obviously deeply in love with. He has lost all direction and purpose in his life. The author uses the point of view of the speaker to show just how pathetic this creature is. The speaker fee ls incompetent for the beast and attempts to speak to it, seemingly out of pity. He even calls the abject animal his "friend". This leads me to believe that maybe the creature is just an generation of the speaker, the part of him that cannot let go of an important love.      In the Desert is a poem that is symbolic of the way people react when their "hearts ar broken". The heart, in this instance, represents love and happiness. When the man loses this love he feels as though his heart has been wrenched from his chest and devoured by a monster (that represents his live emotional say). The man is broken, battered and left to fend for himself. He is also filled with resentment and anger as is made evident by his "bitter-bitter" heart. This whole scenario represents the dependence of man on the love of another and his state of total denial and sadness when it is taken from him. The only beam of try for that I could find in this poem is when the man says that he likes his heart despite its bitterness.