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The Cold War: Poem Analysis

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My psyche erupts into a war. Whenever hope manages to crawl out of its little partitioned area its insurrection is met with extreme brutality. The Russian and the Boston accent fight bitterly, and the time can be summarized with the one word: anguish. Eventually, it ends, a few months after it began. Another word choice finishes it, a verb transitions to the past tense: "We're dating" becomes " We were dating" Boston accent rises from his corner barely able to stand. He hobbles up behind the Russian silently, holding a piece of rebar with a little sticker with the word "hope" stuck on the side. He strikes, and beats the occupier and whatever reason he brought with him into a pulp. With the return of the Boston as the dominant …show more content…

We talk. Everything is fine. A month or two passes like previously described. Prom begins to loom, and Boston wants a yes or no. So I ask her if she's decided, with strained inconspicuousness. You already know what her answer is. It's understandable, she has good reasons. I'm still crumpled, and Boston Accent suggests I write another email, so I find myself I pouring out how I feel again -- another hour wasted on a lost cause, but at least it's better written than the last. There's no effect, as expected, but I am still devastated, and there's some truly crushing finality to it this time. Later that night I find myself crying, something I swore I wouldn't do. When I finish, I'm exhausted, embarrassed, and now well aware realize the futility that is present in the situation. When he inevitably tries to make another pass to "cheer me up" I'm …show more content…

What I think I got out of this ordeal is that Hope is a pleasant thing it, but it hides tyrannical nature under its facade of pure good. It's not something to be condemned, but it's something that needs to be regulated and rationalized. Given free reign it can show you what you want to see, not what you need to see, and it makes improbable excuses for failure and thus encourages you to reject your mistakes rather than learn from them, and it can try to guide you along a path of convolution to a destination that doesn't exist. You need to be able to align it with rationale of the actual situation, because otherwise you end up seeing the world through skewed perspective, a perspective where you happiness lies on one thing, and that leaves you imbalanced. Sometimes that balance takes some time to find, and it can be frustrating realizing that you need to re-evaluate, but it's worth it once you get there, because in the end you find yourself in a far better place than wherever you were holding yourself

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