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The Crickets Have Arthritis Poem Analysis

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When it comes to twenty-first century poets who have changed the game in terms of poetry, Shane Koyczan is the man who is known to connect to subjects that relate to the newest generation. From aspects of cyberbullying to how deep love really is, Koyczan’s poems connect to the average human being on what it is like to live life through another’s eyes. This collection of Koyczan poems show the highs and lows of what lessons life is able to give, and that though any experience is one to learn from. Shane L. Koyczan was born on May 2nd, 1976 in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories in Canada. He grew up with his grandparents in Penticton, British Columbia and had a majority of his education at Okangan College (Shane Koyczan). Growing up the …show more content…

Koyczan lets the audience feel a sense of appreciation for the gifts in their life, including something so basic as breathing, and to reconsider the differences on what is really valued or needed. On the surface, the subject of the poem is the life of a little boy, specifically the courage that he shows in his tragic situation and his impact on the speaker’s life. However, Louis’s story is used to bring to light more complex and universal concepts on the themes of life and …show more content…

Thought Koyczans works, “Pulse’ is most notable for the raw emotion that Koyczan put through this piece. This poem discusses the true romantic adrenaline that goes through one’s head in the stages of falling in love. “Breathing in your skin like incense” symbolizes that the presence of the speaker’s lovers closeness brings peace and serenity to the speaker’s life. As moving toward the section of the lover’s back like a highway, the speaker make’s it as if it’s the stages of their relationship. As the speaker “travels” more down the “road”, they see their lovers pain with past boyfriends but as he reaches the end of the “car wreck boyfriends”, they take the time to admire the scenery that is their lover in the now. The one that has developed and grown. And that the speaker hope that they can make the relationship last longer than the ones in the past by going a little further. “Hit the intersection where your shoulders meet your neck/and past the car wrecks of past boyfriends/…and hope your skin lends me an extra mile/So I can slow down,/take a while to admire the

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