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Short Analysis on Several Poems

Yet, he contradicted this "righteous hurt" with "I, too, hated the bottles enough to break some deliberately." Then he further has a crisis of value when he suggests the taking of pleasure in "[sharing] with the other workers [this] petty act of free will." The value of the act is looked on as petty, but the implications of the act are more than petty. The slavery or prison of employment was referenced in the phrase, "someone for sure still does the hard work of boredom and that person cannot escape." Most of us will sell ourselves to our employer, but this "contract" is one we enter into willingly and we can utilize that same volition to exit the contract. Most people would want to "say who [they are]" through some contribution to society. The speaker thinks this should be done "through destruction" rather than making a contribution. The speaker seems to be asking the question, "What's this life for?" He writes of the imprisoned "[worker] of boredom . . . [who] has no opportunity to say who he is" held back by something that makes him "hesitate, some father or husband, in himself." This is a question we all ask, though many of us try to avoid its answer. .
             What I Wouldn't Do.
             The speaker values people in general. They are "strangers" yet she did not like "their disappointment when they realized [she] wasn't who they thought [she] was." Her value was not one of selfishness in hating the rejection phone solicitors often get, but a selfless one of thinking of their feelings.
             The speaker also valued being alone. She was by herself cleaning houses and at the donut shop. She expressed this by stating that one "was fine" while she "liked" the other. She only expressed her feelings about three jobs. These two and the one she didn't like at TV Guide. For the other positions she held she only described her duties not her feelings.
             "[She] liked holding the hand-blown glass bell," but did not seem as one who would become an aesthetic.


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