The Facebook Sonnet Sherman Alexie Analysis

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The “Facebook Sonnet” is a poem written by Sherman Alexie. It explores the idea that people can have a fascination with social media. He gives his opinions about how Facebook seems to shape and change social networking and the people who use it. It’s a reminder on how people can forget the difference between reality and what is not. The Facebook website has become a place for some to become something they are not, a place to vent, become known, and share personal information. He seems to point out how some of the members of Facebook are so concerned with what people think of us. It’s like a need for validation from others. It makes you question your everyday habits when being online.
In “The Facebook Sonnet”, Alexie talks about the good and bad in social networking. The authors’ tone in the poem is a little sarcastic. The first line of the poem he starts off by saying, ‘Welcome to the endless high-school reunion” (Alexie line 1-2). The line sounds …show more content…

Alexie points that out in lines 9 and 10 “Let fame and shame intertwine”, some people just don’t have any shame of what they share to the outside world. I’m not saying everything is shameful but some of what is posted can be. Alexie points out how Facebook has become a platform for people to share their religious beliefs. It’s become a place to share their confessions to others, and to ask for forgiveness. When he points out “let church.com become our church.” (Alexie line 12) shows us how society has made things that were once sacred become a public domain. Alexie ends the poem with his definition of Facebook to be the altar of loneliness. It’s kind of ironic that he says that Facebook is lonely, because it is a place where people connect with one another. At the same time he maybe saying that we have lost the connection to real people in front of us other than

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