![]() ![]() “Does God love gold? ” “Time never stops, but does it end? ” “What lives beside us passing for air? ” “What happens when the body goes slack? ” etc.). Many of the poems contain rhetorical questions (e.g. Throughout Life on Mars, the poems continually doubt the usefulness of human knowledge. Seeing us, they’ll know exactly what we mean. How marvelous you’ve come! We won’t flinchĪt the pinprick mouths, the nubbin limbs. Look: postcardsĪnd panties, bottles with lipstick on the rim, Perhaps the best example is in the poem titled “The Universe is a House Party.” Hypothetical aliens visit with parental condescension an overenthusiastic universe. So much for the flags we bored.” The message to the reader is humbling: human’s greatest preoccupations are ephemeral and of little ultimate consequence. In “The Universe: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” the narrator states “So much for us. In “The Museum of Obsolescence,” human concepts of “Love” and “Disease” are installations in a futuristic museum. These poems use distance of time and space to question the importance of human existence. The language is accessible and creatively used, with strong use of alliteration and internal rhyme. The poetry speculates on the smallness of humankind, the incapacity of human intellectuality, and the irrationality of human emotions. The poetry in Tracy K Smith’s book, Life on Mars, examines the limitedness of the human species. ![]()
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