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Question: In “When Hope Comes Back,” what brings hope back to the poet? How might this poem be seen as political?
Answer: The nature brings back hope for the poet. The nature makes him realize the beauty of it all and it opens his eyes to a better world. So what bring hope back is that the Earth is not destroyed and necessarily cannot be destroyed by a storm. There is always something left and that is nature. Nature comforts itself. The motherless bird’s crowd together to comfort one another and this echoes what is said earlier in the poem about the Earth being like a "small black boy" that you comfort like an older sister. The irony is that the writer writes as though it is the reader that comforts the Earth, but the reality is the other way around. The fact that there is something left both of the self (the reader's self) and of the Earth shows that one can comfort the other and each can be renewed in the others glow.
And tomorrow morning "the world will wake and day break fully grown and his eyes will flash a grown up smile" this contrasts to the image as a little boy in the dark (remember the boy that was afraid of the dark and then a fire lit and he became afraid of the fire). It is talking about human nature and the fear we feel with the unexpected but the strength we find and garner from the Earth that compels us to rebuild and with rebuilding and regrowth comes hope.
In the way of politics, this could be taken more symbolically, saying that we as man (& woman) should take care of the world. Try not to bring harm upon it-- like war =/-- and protect it as if it were a little child, knowing that each new day brings the opportunity for change.
Question: In “When Hope Comes Back,” what brings hope back to the poet? How might this poem be seen as political?
Answer: The nature brings back hope for the poet. The nature makes him realize the beauty of it all and it opens his eyes to a better world. So what bring hope back is that the Earth is not destroyed and necessarily cannot be destroyed by a storm. There is always something left and that is nature. Nature comforts itself. The motherless bird’s crowd together to comfort one another and this echoes what is said earlier in the poem about the Earth being like a "small black boy" that you comfort like an older sister. The irony is that the writer writes as though it is the reader that comforts the Earth, but the reality is the other way around. The fact that there is something left both of the self (the reader's self) and of the Earth shows that one can comfort the other and each can be renewed in the others glow.
And tomorrow morning "the world will wake and day break fully grown and his eyes will flash a grown up smile" this contrasts to the image as a little boy in the dark (remember the boy that was afraid of the dark and then a fire lit and he became afraid of the fire). It is talking about human nature and the fear we feel with the unexpected but the strength we find and garner from the Earth that compels us to rebuild and with rebuilding and regrowth comes hope.
In the way of politics, this could be taken more symbolically, saying that we as man (& woman) should take care of the world. Try not to bring harm upon it-- like war =/-- and protect it as if it were a little child, knowing that each new day brings the opportunity for change.