In the poem “Fragments 1953” by Gottfried Benn, the author writes with a sensible precise diction that draws the reader to listen on how “a day without tears is a rare occurrence.” He explains that those days with tears, is “practically” an incident of a series of events in a person’s life that are going to occur no matter if you were the blame for them or not, it is going to happen. In addition the author explains a semi-nostalgic but admiration of the times during 1953, when “men still wore starched collars” and went through a great deal of pain, that express much disappointment in life. In addition also feels like the writer wants to show some confusing between how it is now and how it was then. He writes that those were the years “when something whispered” which suggest a sense of a fearful tediousness amongst people during 1953.
The Living End
In the poem “The Living End” by Samuel Menashe, the author writes a miniature but clear-cut poem that goes straight into the anthology of disappointment and failure. Because of the poem be short it expressing the feeling that life is too short, and that people aren’t always able to do everything that they dreamed of, because when the author writes “before long the end.” And because life is so short towards the end there will be “mis-grivings about what you did,” stating that what you want to do may not be what you do or if you can interprete that what you have done, later in lfe there may be some regrets. This will have a person feeling like a failure with a great deal of disappointment because of what you were not able to do and/or what you’ve done that you are not too proud of.
