For Hulfuring Life In Marge Piercy's For Fulfilling Life

For Fulfilling Life
Does anyone have an idea what 28,800 is? This is the number which converted to seconds from eight hours that is the average working time for full-time workers. It takes 6,912,000 seconds in a year if they work five days in a week. The working hours occupy about one third of a day. Depending on how people spend each moment in their time, feeling of happiness of life would be totally different. During the late 20 century, people did not have many choices about their occupations. They might have unprofitable jobs; nevertheless, they were working joyfully. In 1974, Marge Piercy, political and social activist, wrote the poem, “To be of use” to display ideal personalities of employees (1175). On the other hand, in this modern society, while developing economy provides numerous kinds of jobs, many people seem to have troublesome in work. I demonstrate the displeasure with cranky employees in my poem, “To be useless” to symbolize the people who contain these qualities while having a job in current society. Although both poems have the same theme of a fulfilling life, the ways of expression of the theme are two extremities in their different

Piercy mentions, “jump into work head first” (2); it illustrates people start the job right away. She shows another example; with “swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight” gives us a clear image of swiftness and energetic power moving forward (4). In spite of hers, in my poem, “stare back at yesterday” means people care about what happened in the past. While they are thinking about the past, they are already left behind by people who already start working. In addition, “roar at the silent movies” provides an image of staying behind or even backward because the silent movies represent the happenings in the past. From both first stanzas, Piercy’s poem delivers us the image of progress whereas my poem shows