2nd essay

In the poem "Red Shift" , the author Ted Berrigan suggests that, life is like being alone, no matter what you go though, you always end up alone. I strongly believe this is what he suggests because of how the poem is set up, from start to finish he describes the speaker in a setting of how it starts off, then the speaker in memory, for example like with relationship, Friends, and then it goes to the speaker in emotion describing how the mood changed how he truly felt about certain things and why. Lastly he goes into death, how death just sneakily comes in life. the author establishes his point by letting one know that, that's how life is going to be, he's like letting us know or his earlier self that he didn't ask for this. He states " Only our human lot & means nothing." In this quote he's basically saying that's it's just human fate we live through pain only to die, and i agree. You might be happy at one point in life but then it goes down hill again is there really something to look forward to? The author describes himself in one verse as a "ghost" or a "spirit who lives only to nag." Probably because he feels he has no meaning to life any more., or just simply because there's nothing to look forward to anymore. It's strange because Ted talks about never dieing , living in till he's 110 years old, it's like he wants to at least leave something behind once he's truly gone. Its like he's letting his earlier self know, that he came into his life to change it, he did , and that's never going to change. Then he goes into death, he states "Alone & crowded, unhappy fate, nevertheless i slip softly into the air the wold's furious song flows through my costume." Sad but true , he's using language to say its him. The idea that the poem proposes life is like being alone is an important one because that's what he tries to tell us no matter how hard we try life's going to be the same "lonely" at the end.