Life Without Struggle is Just a Fantasy.
In the world people of every race, color, and culture all share something in common without even knowing it, that is they all have struggles in the way they live their lives. Other people in the world though usually cannot see most of these struggles. Yet, we all know that everyone experiences them. These struggles are the ones that help people choose which path to take in life, they are internal struggles. Who has never in their life sat and wondered on what to do or how to do it? How can people avoid such questions, it is impossible, is my point. The internal struggle that the narrators are going through in the poems, "Marriage" and "To a Stranger", help the authors get their points across. .
The poem, "Marriage", by Gregory Corso, the internal struggle the narrator is going through is one of whether or not to get married. Corso uses a spectacular choice of diction in this poem to help the reader really understand the extent of the struggle that the narrator is going through when trying to make this decision. In the first three lines of the poem, Corso already has the narrator beating himself up over this decision he has to make, "Should I get married? Should I be good? Astound the girl next door with my velvet suit and faustus head?" (Corso, 368). Already Corso sets the tone for the poem. By doing this he also gives the reader a peek into how long the narrator has been pondering their question on whether or not to get married. In the first stanza, Corso sets a style for the reader on how the narrator perceives marriage, " .take her in my arms lean against an old cracked tombstone" (Corso, 368). Corso stays with this pattern of being the narrator perceive marriage with negative responses. For example, in stanza three, the narrator snaps for a moment and talks about becoming a hermit that revokes honeymoons, "O I"d live in Niagara forever" in a dark cave beneath the Falls I"d sit there the Mad Honeymooner devising ways to break marriages, a scourge of bigamy a saint of divorce" (Corso, 368).
