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Shu Ting
In time's assembly line
Night presses against night.
We come off the factory night-shift
In line as we march towards home.
5- Over our heads in a row
The assembly line of stars
Stretches across the sky.
Beside us, little trees
Stand numb in assembly lines.
10- The stars must be exhausted
After thousands of years
Of journeys which never change.
The little trees are all sick,
Choked on smog and monotony,
15- Stripped of their color and shape.
It's not hard to feel for them;
We share the same tempo and rhythm.
Yes, I'm numb to my own existence
As if, like the trees and stars
20-- perhaps just out of habit
-- perhaps just out of sorrow,
I'm unable to show concern
For my own manufactured fate.
Can you please help me with the following question based on the above poem? Please, been struggling to answer it for awhile. Thanks.
Questions: Explain the following quotation from Shu Ting’s “Assembly Line”: “I’m unable to show concern / For my own manufactured fate.”
Shu Ting
In time's assembly line
Night presses against night.
We come off the factory night-shift
In line as we march towards home.
5- Over our heads in a row
The assembly line of stars
Stretches across the sky.
Beside us, little trees
Stand numb in assembly lines.
10- The stars must be exhausted
After thousands of years
Of journeys which never change.
The little trees are all sick,
Choked on smog and monotony,
15- Stripped of their color and shape.
It's not hard to feel for them;
We share the same tempo and rhythm.
Yes, I'm numb to my own existence
As if, like the trees and stars
20-- perhaps just out of habit
-- perhaps just out of sorrow,
I'm unable to show concern
For my own manufactured fate.
Can you please help me with the following question based on the above poem? Please, been struggling to answer it for awhile. Thanks.
Questions: Explain the following quotation from Shu Ting’s “Assembly Line”: “I’m unable to show concern / For my own manufactured fate.”