Analysis Of The Poem To This Day

Society judges those who are different both physically and mentally and those that don’t fit in with the social norm but it is up to the individuals to look past that and rise against their judgement. Shane Koyczan’s ‘To This Day’, is a poem about those who have been bullied throughout their lives and its long term impact it leaves. The poem tells multiple stories of the victims of bullying due to their physical appearance or their mental state. The poem begins with a personal adecdote talking about how he earned his first nickname. The anecdote is used to allow the readers of the poem to relate as it doesn’t rely on the abstract logic as the anecdote provides proof. He tells his story about how he used to love pork chops, and didn’t know the difference between pork chops and karate chops, until he was called pork

In the poem and video to “to this day” it explains how Shane Kocyczan had a rough childhood and that bullying hurts. Shane had a very rough childhood ,during his childhood he had an accident and then CYFD investigated him .Then he got taken away from his grandma and word got around school and the kids started to call him “porkchops”. In his video and poem he wants people to know how children get affected from the bullying and how it should make you feel..

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In the poem to This Day by Shane Koyczan It symbolizes bullying and that words can actually hurt someone and so can sticks and stones can also hurt people but that it is not right to call people names because it can hurt them but they don’t show it and it is wrong to bully people with words and other

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The slam poem To This Day by Shane Koyczan talks about how the saying “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me” is not true and words can actually hurt more than broken bones. In one of the shots, there is a clenched fist rising from a burning fire. I believe this symbolizes how one can break through the insults and become victorious against insults. In the shot, there’s burning fire on the foreground, and fire could symbolize destruction, and sometimes even the pit of hell. However, coming out of the fire is a raised, clenched fist. This symbolizes victory and defense. And behind the fist is a white background, and white represents purity and goodness. All of this put together says that through all the destruction,

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Shane Koyczan has lived through experienced violence in schools, that is still affecting to him but he is now facing the problem, that’s why he wrote the slam poetry call “To This Day” a slam poetry, he emphasizes about what can bullying leave to the person, it leaves a mark, all of this physiological violence has more to do with beauty than with pain states Koyczan. In his poem he wants to give an announcement to all those guys that have been a victim of bullying. The important stories of the poem are about a guy that got a trauma with pork chops, because he confused with karate chops. The second story is about a girl that since she was 8 years old he have been through bullying because she had a birth mark, she is a mom with to kids.

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