Poets often include symbols (check glossary if you are unsure what a symbol is) in order to help us understand the profound nature of certain situations. Do you see any symbolism in the following lines?
Every morning
Meiyo revs his truck up
and lets it idle. (1-3)
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I think it symbolizes the Meiyo’s perseverance, whether the day is cool and hot, or whether the day is raining and blowing, he is not going to stop doing things he like.
ReplyDeleteit seems that Meiyo gets up everyday (revs his truck up), and let life pass him by (idle).
ReplyDeleteI think the word “idle” is the symbol in the poem. The word idle can be used to describe a person or a thing. When it is used to describe a person, it means some one who wastes his/her time by doing less valuable work. When it is used to describe (in this case the truck) it refers to the truck been used to do useless work. In this poem “idle” stands for wasted time and unhappy life.
ReplyDeleteMeiyo revving up hid truvk is like us telling ourselves to get out of bed every morning. While the truck is idling it is getting warmed up, just like us how we need time to get ready and face a whole new day
ReplyDeleteI agree with Chaperones and J. Kizzle, I see the same symbolism relating to the truck and it being left idle. Every morning Meiyo revving his truck symbolizes himself starting his life everyday the same way. Letting the truck idle symbolizes Meiyos position in life which is stationary. Like the truck he has the potential of going great distances yet he remains in one place losing fuel, which represents his life and/or motivation slowly slipping away.
ReplyDeleteIt relating that Meiyo is doing the same work again and again. Life is very simple and dull to him. Same like the truck, up and idle. Life is like a meaningless cycle. The trucks represent exactly the same what Meiyo's life is. And make a preparation to express that he has a work he doesn't like
ReplyDelete1) I agree with Benson’s comment. I think Meiyo want to point out that she was tired with those actions (habits). She want to protest her impatient in her life. Every morning she went up and doing the same thing again and again. But not choice, life is like that: sometime we feel tired, and sometime we feel stuffy. She wishes something change in her life. It is fine with the habits which we take it as usual.
ReplyDeleteOH,I think Meiyo is a woman,I am wrong,Meiyo is a man.~~~ I tpye the wrong gender. ^^
ReplyDeleteFirst let us breakdown the sentence to word by word and try to make sense out of it. From my point of view, there are three symbolized words here. These words are "rev", "truck" and "idle". So the word "rev" is used as to start or to accelerate. The "truck"is used to indicate our body. So here we have to make start the body work, and, translated to natural way of saying is "to wake up our body". "Idle" can be translated to "do nothing", "rest immobile" so can be translated to sit down without doing nothing. Finally, we will have "Meyo wakes up every morning and sits down without doing nothing".
ReplyDeleteWhile Mayo was doing his loopy job that he hates, he started imagining himself under a blue sky, with a spear, following bison herd. Still in his imagination he throws his spear to the bison where his imagination was interrupted by a sound because he hit the ground with hummer he had in hand he used to work with. In short, the job Mayo loved was hunting bison or hunting in general.
ReplyDeleteEven just in the first three lines of this poem, we can directly understand the message the writer is trying to send us which is how dull Meiyo’s life is. When he says, “Meiyo revs his truck up and lets it idle,” the writer is symbolizing Meiyo’s life with his truck. As J. Kizzle said, he just lets his life pass him by. Furthermore, on lines twelve and thirteen the writer says, “Inside his veins another world in full color etches.” This relates back to those first three lines. The truck REVS but it is left idle; similarly, the world inside his veins itches to get out but just like the truck it stands idle.
ReplyDeleteI think Meiyo uses “idle” to stand for his life situation. It seems to tell the reader what he does every morning, and he actually doesn’t like to do, so just let it go, let the time pass by. His life is similar to the truck, repeat and repeats the same action every day—rev up, but Meiyo has to stay in the same situation; he cannot make change, so just let the life continue idle and without any harvest and happiness.
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ReplyDeleteI think the sentence "Meiyo revs his truck up" sybolizes his confined and consistent life. And the sentence "lets is idle" sybolizes that the kind of life leads him to have only repeated experiences, not getting and new experiences and develepment of himself and world in his routine life.
ReplyDeleteThe passage represents Meiyo’s routine physically and mentally. He wakes every morning and feels the ambition and empowerment of his ancestry in his veins, which correlates to “every morning Meiyo revs his truck”. Instead of acting on this powerful calling that he has inside of him, he allows himself to be idle compared to what he is capable of, which refers to him revving his truck up to display the known power it possess and then allowing it to run idle instead of using the full capacity of the trucks power.
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