Living Attitude In Literature and Real Society

Human’s characteristics have both pleasing part and unpleasing part. That affects human attitude toward living. Pleasing parts would make people happy and sometimes worth for others to learn from. However, the unpleasing parts would make people tired of their living.

In “Walking around” by Pablo Neruda, I feel the poet was not satisfied some characteristics of human during that time, and he did not want to continue living under this kind of condition.  He wanted changes. I feel during that time, people cared more about their appearance more than any other things, and Neruda did not like that.  For example, Neruda wrote in his poem, “I am tired of being a man” as well as “I am tired of my feet and my nails and my hair and my shadow.” Here, he mentioned things that he tired of are all things related to appearance. Therefore, I think in the period the author was living in, people in the society would make up and not showing their true faces.

For this video that our professor show us on Thursday, I feel the video is very interesting.  It also supports what I feel toward the poem. There is moment that a lady surrounded by flowers and made poses for camera shot. Also, after the man became like a monster and walk on the street, no one want to be closed with him.  That tells me that appearance would affect people on their choice of who to be around with.  However, I still did not get why the camera took shot on the cells for several times. There must be some meaning when things repeat again and again.

I feel love always existed between human being. No matter it’s between friendship, family, or couples. If the degree of love decreased, people would feel sad and the living attitude might change as well. Negatively, some people might not think deeply about how they should face and choose to suicide. When I saw this kind of suicide on the newspaper, I often thought they just did not get people to ease their anxiety.  I often believe most of suicides are temporarily wrong decisions people made on their mind, but that affects them and their people around permanently.  Positively, some people might plan to restart and forget about the past.

In “Tonight I Can Write” by Pablo Neruda, the poet lost his love and chose the positive way.  He planned to restart his live after that night he wrote the poem. However, he is still not certain about it.  On Thursday, our professor showed us a clip of someone reading the poem.

   The video-camera always took shot on the swings.  I feel that is like representing the mood of the poet. His mood “swings” like he had to forget about her, but he still loved her; they no longer can be together, but he seemed could not forget about her.