POEM ANALYSIS
VISION OF FUTURE IN LITERATURE
By Group 3
AINUR RABIYATUL
ZARITH SOFEA
AIMAN HASSAN
AISHA NURIN
BACK TO THE FUTURE
By Sulaiman Mohd Yusof
The year is 2285
Everyone is getting high
It’s all about high profile
To live is to die
No more prison and trial
A free world to compile
All your sins will fly
The judgment is yours to consider
Money for nothing to ponder
Distance yourself further
No retreat and no surrender
The going will get wilder
The tough will get weaker
The ozone layer became thinner
The icebergs had landed
Low lying lands became embedded
Like thrusting a knife that is jagged
Seems like most parts are flooded
Highlands are barricaded
Population intakes are limited
To survive is to be restricted
Who’s the poor and who’s the richest?
It’s a taboo to say and yet superstitious
To be in power would be the strongest
Sharing your power could be the longest
To live that long is tremendous
And the poor would become notorious
To be left out as the monotonous
Global warming has taken its toll
It’s not like walking in the park to stroll
The heat could penetrate even your soul
No more south and north pole
Your best next home is in the hole
ANALYSIS
SUBJECT/MATTER
The poem describe the future where people are struggling to live. It also tell about how the environment is getting worse and the world are slowly dying.
THEME
Visions of the future
Reality of life
Destruction of mother nature
EMOTION(MOOD)
The mood for this poem is depressing. We can see that from the way the poet describe how the future were.
'to live is to die'
This line show how depressing the future will be.
CRAFTMANSHIP
POEM STRUCTURES
Has 5 stanzas
Each stanzas has 5-7 lines
Each stanzas rhyme - aaaaaaa
bbbbbbb
IMAGERY
1. Hyperbole
"The heat could penetrate your soul" (Stanza 5 line 3)
2. Simile
"Like thrusting knife that is jagged" (Stanza 3 line 3)
SOUNDS
Assonance - "no more south and north pole" (Stanza 5 line 4)
TONES
Pessimistic
Serious
Sarcastic
SUMMARY
In the future, mass destruction occurs. People lives in poverty,
'The rich get richer and the poor get poorer'
Mother nature will perish because of human greed in modernization.
