Same. The author speaks from privilege, but e.g. to a starving person half a meal is very much preferable to nothing at all - obviously a full meal would have been even better but half will do, for now, and offer energy to then have a better shot at gaining a whole one?
But it’s a poem, so communicated truth using language as a vehicle, and I suppose it was successful because it got all of us to talk about it:-).
Well, now I feel like I’m back in school and just got tricked into enjoying learning something new by an English teacher. I am begrudgingly grateful. [Shakes fist]
Same. The author speaks from privilege, but e.g. to a starving person half a meal is very much preferable to nothing at all - obviously a full meal would have been even better but half will do, for now, and offer energy to then have a better shot at gaining a whole one?
But it’s a poem, so communicated truth using language as a vehicle, and I suppose it was successful because it got all of us to talk about it:-).
Well, now I feel like I’m back in school and just got tricked into enjoying learning something new by an English teacher. I am begrudgingly grateful. [Shakes fist]
If only we could all become so fortunate as to have a lawn and live to be old enough to yell at kids to get off of it!:-)