The never ending blame game
The narrator begins the poem by using a tone commonly found in infomercials. The poem begins with a question, the narrator addressing the reader directly and asking him or her whether he or she has any problem. He then urges them not to be worried and to start the "Game of Blame’’. The narrator offers three simple solutions for the reader to never have to take responsibility for everything and the last step implies finding the ‘’real’’ person responsible for the problems in question.
Some of the things blames by people for causing their problems are mentioned but they are not considered valid reasons. Instead, the narrator urges everyone to stop fooling themselves and to accept responsibility for their own actions.
The poem begins with the description of an old man, sitting on a beach and looking at the sea. Uncle Time then starts to speak and his tone is threatening. He compares himself to a spider, living on a hill from where he can see everything and everyone. Because of his position on the hill, no one can escape him, no matter where they try to run.
Time compares himself to a spider, capable of entering every house and affecting every person. Those inside the house are more than often not aware of the presence of time and when they are touched by it they realize they are at the end of the road.
The poem is an allegory through which the narrator wants to transmit the message how we are more than often not aware of the passing of time. Instead, we like to think we have more time at our disposal than we actually do and thus we spend it unwisely. At the end of the road, when time touched us, we realize that it is too late to change something in our lives and thus we begin to weep for the life we could have had but were not wise enough to plan.
Marrysong
The narrator of the poem presents the story between two people, a man and a woman. The man has troubles understanding the woman beside him while the woman is described as being ever changing and exciting. The woman was able to spice up the man’s life to the point where everything seemed new for him and every day brought something new. The woman’s love was also something the man could not depend on and it is compared with the shadows made by trees, growing and reducing depending on the sun.
Despite this, the narrator ends the poem by claiming the ma still stayed by the woman’s side because of the excitement she represented for him.
