18/04/2021

DISCRIMINATION – DAVID TAYLOR

Reading the title you can understand that the poem speaks of discrimination, even if we cannot know exactly which discrimination it refers to, because we could understand this only by reading the poem.

The poem is arranged into 1 stanza and there is not regular rhyme pattern. Furthermore, we can note the numerous similarities present in the passage such as: "our life a sheet of parchment waits our thoughts and deeds as does a canvas wait for brush”.

The artist is expressing what all people think. Moreover, in lines 4-9 he compares life to a canvas or to a computer, because like them they wait for man's hand and thoughts to do something, even life awaits people's decisions. Later he says that, we all try to leave a mark on this Earth, a memory of us. Finally, in the last lines the poet introduces death, because like everyone when we are born sooner or later, we must also die and says that our light will never go out, but in the long run the memory will.

Therefore, the message of the text is that our life is like a white book, in which we must day after day write our history, trying to leave a mark and a memory.