TPCASTTING!...YAY!
So I decided to re-TPCASTT "In the Secular Night," by Margaret Atwood. While I was reading through this poem I was once again struck by just how well the speaker's existence is displayed and how many people can relate to feeling alone in the world. The theme I found for this poem coincides directly to the title "In the Secular Night" as the speaker is truly living in and among a secular night. For this reason I found it true that living of the world (or in a secular night) will lead to discontentment, despair, and loneliness. The reason for these three words is shown throughout the poem as the speaker experiences the brutality of a secular world and how trying to gain satisfaction from it will only leave you desperate for more. This poem therefore sheds more than just a glimmer of light on the human condition but more a blinding spotlight on the faults of our world today. We say the world is degressing and that something should be done, but most of us just prefer to stay in the secular night with our "baby lima beans" and blame God for all our mistakes.
So I decided to re-TPCASTT "In the Secular Night," by Margaret Atwood. While I was reading through this poem I was once again struck by just how well the speaker's existence is displayed and how many people can relate to feeling alone in the world. The theme I found for this poem coincides directly to the title "In the Secular Night" as the speaker is truly living in and among a secular night. For this reason I found it true that living of the world (or in a secular night) will lead to discontentment, despair, and loneliness. The reason for these three words is shown throughout the poem as the speaker experiences the brutality of a secular world and how trying to gain satisfaction from it will only leave you desperate for more. This poem therefore sheds more than just a glimmer of light on the human condition but more a blinding spotlight on the faults of our world today. We say the world is degressing and that something should be done, but most of us just prefer to stay in the secular night with our "baby lima beans" and blame God for all our mistakes.
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