What is the central idea of the poem earthworms monologue
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The poem is
about an earthworm talking about its life. So, the speaker is the earthworm
itself, speaking to a person who is presumably present with it in the garden.
The poem
begins very matter of factly, with the earthworm candidly stating that it is food
for birds and fish. Continuing with the food imagery, it describes its body as
a ‘sausage’. Then regrets how it is nothing like the beautiful body of the
snake. It feels dull and colourless when compared to the snake. The poem seems
to be sinking into a depressive state when the earthworm talks about being ‘absurd’
and then all of a sudden tries to redeem its existence by mentioning how spring ‘depends’ on it for readying the soil.
The
earthworm feels miserable, for it accepts the fact that it is often mocked at.
Continuing with the high and low tide like movement of the poem, it boasts of
being able to ‘come together again’ when it is cut in half. Seeking to
establish a rapport with the reader/ person present, the earthworm earnestly
asks if the reader hasn’t ever felt miserable about his/her physical
appearance. The unsaid answer is a ‘yes’. This makes the earthworm and the
reader friends, for both have felt the same emotions and hence have common
grounds.
The
earthworm would have liked to sympathize with the reader, but cannot do so,
because it is too busy tilling the soil. It asks the person present to bend
over it, take a closer look at it. Also, the person is ‘not yet tall’
indicating that the earthworm is talking to a child. It can even mean that the
earthworm is suggesting that man can never grow taller than God. Hence, they are
prone to such feelings. It is an attempt to make people realise that they are
not alone in feeling the way they do and also to sensitise them to the fact
that even if a person or a creature looks fine on the outside, they may be
depressed.
The only way
to keep negative thoughts away is by being ‘proud’ of what one is. Ironically, the
earthworm has trouble doing the same thing. It alternately feels wretched and
then discovers a reason to be proud of itself, but the ups and downs continue,
till the poem finally ends on a high. Everyone has felt worthless at some point
in life, but that does not give one the excuse to give up.
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about an earthworm talking about its life. So, the speaker is the earthworm
itself, speaking to a person who is presumably present with it in the garden.
The poem
begins very matter of factly, with the earthworm candidly stating that it is food
for birds and fish. Continuing with the food imagery, it describes its body as
a ‘sausage’. Then regrets how it is nothing like the beautiful body of the
snake. It feels dull and colourless when compared to the snake. The poem seems
to be sinking into a depressive state when the earthworm talks about being ‘absurd’
and then all of a sudden tries to redeem its existence by mentioning how spring ‘depends’ on it for readying the soil.
The
earthworm feels miserable, for it accepts the fact that it is often mocked at.
Continuing with the high and low tide like movement of the poem, it boasts of
being able to ‘come together again’ when it is cut in half. Seeking to
establish a rapport with the reader/ person present, the earthworm earnestly
asks if the reader hasn’t ever felt miserable about his/her physical
appearance. The unsaid answer is a ‘yes’. This makes the earthworm and the
reader friends, for both have felt the same emotions and hence have common
grounds.
The
earthworm would have liked to sympathize with the reader, but cannot do so,
because it is too busy tilling the soil. It asks the person present to bend
over it, take a closer look at it. Also, the person is ‘not yet tall’
indicating that the earthworm is talking to a child. It can even mean that the
earthworm is suggesting that man can never grow taller than God. Hence, they are
prone to such feelings. It is an attempt to make people realise that they are
not alone in feeling the way they do and also to sensitise them to the fact
that even if a person or a creature looks fine on the outside, they may be
depressed.
The only way
to keep negative thoughts away is by being ‘proud’ of what one is. Ironically, the
earthworm has trouble doing the same thing. It alternately feels wretched and
then discovers a reason to be proud of itself, but the ups and downs continue,
till the poem finally ends on a high. Everyone has felt worthless at some point
in life, but that does not give one the excuse to give up.
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This poem is basically a monologue an earthworm. The earthworm thinks it is absurd because its body look like a sausage and earthworm proudly says that birds and fish feed on it. ... In the second stanza the earthworm is addressing to one who is small but not as itself.
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