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CTomasello - The Contemplation
by CTomasello - (2008-11-04)
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  The title cuold refer to a person who is thinking about a particular sitution or about something that he or she is looking at.

Maybe this person is thinking about him/herself or about another person who plays an important role in the author's life.

It cuold also be that he or she is looking at a beautiful landscape or at a beautiful person, and this gives him or her some nice feelings.

 

 The text tells about Adolescence. A teenager explains his or her thoughts' wandering.

The speaking-voice talks about his or her feelings because he or she is stuck in an in-between: He or she isn't a child but not even an adult. He or she wonders how the future will be.

In the end this teenager realizes that it is useless thinking about that... now he or she can be free!!

 

 The text is divided into four stanza. Two couplets and two tercets.

The first one introduces the thoughts' wandering of the speaking-voice.

The second stanza, that is a tercet, explains the situation in which he or she is now: He/she is in the middle of adolescence.

The third stanza is about his or her fear of the future.

The last stanza represents the end of all his or her doubts because he or she understands that adolescence is the time of freedom!