Poetry Intention Statement

Poetry Intention:

I am exploring the feeling of disconnection, through the experience of losing my humanity. In my poem, the speaker is myself, and the voice is responding to the concept statement through extreme shifts in tone, volume, and emotion. The poem talks about the feeling of having expectations set for you when you’re own value is measured by exceeding those expectations. How there are many different flaws within us that are much more unique than skills and expectations.

In the second stanza, I use elements of repetition to group similar phrases together so that one sentence flows into the next. As you will see many times in my poem, I love using heavy shifts to indicate emotions. Here, I switch from the tangible options like reach and see to something intangible with the word never. In the third stanza, I use repetition in the word of me for the flow of words, and then the shift to in me to indicate a different tone. That tone being something within me rather than something that is a part of my personality and abilities. In the third stanza, I dramatically shift my tone of voice to introduce a metaphor of a disconnection from humanity. Later, this metaphor will be fleshed out, but here I use it as an introduction to my overall theme of disconnection through the experience of losing my humanity. In the fourth stanza, I continue to express my concept statement through rhyme. I use rhyming here because it makes it flow better when I say it, however the main point is not the rhyme but the words themselves. Because I wanted to emphasize how being human means that I have imperfections to come to terms with. Those being my insecurity and my internal struggles. And this conflicts with what standards are set as they aim to buff out those imperfections entirely and replace them with special “skills”. In the fifth stanza, there is no particular things to dissect besides my continuation of rhyming and themes of losing humanity. In the sixth stanza, I used repetition and hand movements to begin an emphasis and continue on my metaphor. That I am becoming more and more machine. In the seventh stanza, I deepen my stance on my changes and expectations, as well as the metaphor explained earlier. I shifted dramatically in tone of voice during the presentation to indicate a growing fear and panic over the changes that feel like they are happening under my nose. And then I shift once more to target what the narrator believes to be source of their discomfort and problems. Finally, in the last stanza, I solidify my stance on my dehumanization and also indicate in the actual poem how it has changed me. By continuously changing letters to symbols, I show how I am becoming more and more machine as my humanity slips away