POEM ANALYSIS
ODE TO TECHNOLOGY
By Tien Dang
You’ve brought us closer,
Then made us more distant.
Made us more aware,
Then made us doubtful to ourselves.
Introduce us to more friend,
Then invited more enemies.
Given us more publicity,
Then exploited us.
Save us more time,
Now it’s spent to be more busy.
ANALYSIS
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Meaning
Line 1
Technology through media social connected people that live far from each other but it somehow make people distant one another as people focus on online/virtual connection.
Line 2
Media social help people discover theirselves as they posted a lot of creative work online but it also make people insecure of themselves as they think that they wouldn’t fit in the society.
Line 3
Mass media introduce people to new people from all around the globe but they would also meet with a lot of enemies as a simple misunderstanding could lead to bigger argument
Line 4
Mass media give people bigger opportunity to grow their work but make them busy and put too much focus and depend on it.
Line 6
Technology through modern invention help people finish their work or task early and make them busy with other matters to filled their free time.
Subject matters
This poem describe the future of modern technology as it evolve and developed and what does it have in store for humanity.
Also this poem shows the dark side of future technology to humanity aside from it benefits in making humans daily life easy.
Theme
Technology in the future
The abused of technology in human’s life
The bad side of modern technology.
Emotion (Mood)
The poem mood could be described as pessimistic as poet is trying to convey the cons of future technology in human’s life.
The tone of this poem might be described as serious. The words used in this poem give clues as to how the poet feels about technology in the future. Word like Enemies, exploited and doubtful shows that poet does not look at the technology in a good way.
CRAFTMANSHIP
Structure
This poem is written in a stanza that consist ten lines in total.
Language
The language used in this poem is very direct and easy to understand. The poet used a few strict words that shows to reader the future tech could affect human’s life and at the same time creating awareness among them. For example the word exploit and enemies.
IMAGERY
Visual Imagery
1. You’ve brought us closer,
Then made us more distant.
The poet tells that technology could connect people that lives far away but it somehow make the closer one distance each other as they are so into the modern devices.
Personification
1. Introduce us to more friend,
The poet personified technology as a person who introduced human to other people and be their friends.
Symbol
1.Exploited
The world exploited tells that human is exploited by the technology as they are stuck with it in a lot of ways.
Movement
The poem moved fast as it is a direct poem. This makes the poem can be understand easily even at the first time reading it.
Sound
Assonance
The syllable ‘en’ is repeated a few times, which is at the starting of line 2, 3, 4, 6 and stopped at the beginning of line 7.
SUMMARY
All in all, the vision of future in literature can be seen in many aspect and future for me is world where technology is used widely and came with a lot of pros and cons. This poem on the other hand poem successfully created an awareness in myself as a reader that, although the technology brings a lot of pros and help us live our life easily it also came with a lot of negative effect that might affect humanity in the future as it developed.