I can relate

"Next of course god america i" was the poem in this unit that I could relate to best. The example given in class that is a very good example of this poem's theme is that when I say the pledge of allegiance every day, I never pay attention to it. Those jumble of words have in a way lost meaning to me and whether or not they were jumbled and and didn't make sense wouldn't matter. There are so many things in society that are repeated so much and become so cliche, that they lose almost all their meaning unless the speaker actually takes time to think about what they are actually saying or doing. And that's another point, the speaker isn't only talking about not thinking about what we say (which is conveyed through the first half of the poem), but by also the repeated actions that we do. We may go through the day without even thinking about what we are doing and why we are doing it in the first place. If we were to stop and think about half the things we were doing, we would not be able to explain the purpose of our actions. So that could be another good theme to take from this poem... just stop and think.