The Dangerous Nature Of Medication In Advertisement, By Szymborska

Szymborska uses personification to show the addictive and dangerous nature of medication in her poem “Advertisement”. Prescription drug abuse can often be overlooked, because many people have unyielding trust their medication. However according to the CDC,with over fifteen million abusers in the United States alone, the abuse is an epidemic. Szymborska is able to draw the reader in through effective promises to ease your struggle, to take care of any obstacle. Each stanza leading up to the last, is able to entice the reader more into the experience promised, and the accuracy to a real advertisement is unnerving. The poem uses irony in its promises, that can be overlooked, simply because they want to overlook it. Finally, the poems last three

Drugs allow you to skip confronting your misfortune by helping ease any emotion, and numbing any pain. Szymborska believes that these disadvantages in life are natural and if not faced, will allow the medication to hold even more control over the user. This is shown best in the poem in the stanza “You’re still a young man/woman. It’s not too late to learn how to unwind. Who said you have to take it on the chin?” in which it shows how unrealistic relying on medicine and drugs can be. This sarcasm in said stanza shows that the author feels this is part of life, and you cannot simply fake through the hardship. The personification gives it the witty and sarcastic tone throughout the poem. If someone were to speak these words, they would sound absurd, because they cannot be done without leaving a part of the lesson that could be learned from obstacles, behind. By personifying the medicine it allows the reader to understand how Szymborska feels about drugs. The sarcasm shows that Szymborska does not believe in avoiding these situations in life, without looking for help in others or mustering up courage somewhere inside yourself. Despite the absurdity of the statements there is still something pleasing and attractive about never having to do what no one wants to, as described in the poem as taking it on the chin. It becomes clear to see the addicting nature of medicine, once the user gets a taste of help without working for it, it is easy to do it again and again. Addiction is the ultimate power that drugs hold, because the user, even if they can stop, will no longer be able to regain the perspective they