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Do you get this poem?
I don't know if the meaning is too obvious or too vague, so please tell me.
Demanding Dials
Planes, they are so complicated, you know?
Beeping dials and buttons
Demanding lights and flashes.
Pilots, some just can't fly them.
Over the Atlantic, skys were cloudless
and that vast range of blue
opened like a chest of treasures in front of
me,and passengers
And then, it all went down.
The dials, the buttons
The passengers, the pilot.
Thrown like trash to the sea.
Pilot floats now, solitary on a her back
Exposed to anger ocean, concealing its black bottom
Passengers clung to debris
And now swim to shore as a herd of migrating butterflies.
Goodbye my wreckage of a plane
Goodbye happy passengers.
This is your Pilot speaking,
I suppose you won't fly with me any longer.
Yeah, may not be explanitory of who the passengers are enough. But, I thought that the last stanza helped out alittle. Yes, it is about a mess-up, but specifically with a group of friends. Now, I (the pilot) am alone, as they move on. (A personal expericence, so I get why it is hard to get. Hence, the question! ;)
Thank you, that should say "angry ocean". And those two stanzas are about being left alone and exposed to God knows what with no one to back you up.
The confusing dials and buttons are all the complications that come with friendship.
6 Answers
- 1 decade ago
I'm not sure exactly what the meaning of this poem is, though it is well written! Its basically about a plane crashing into the ocean by the mistake of the pilot. But further than that, maybe its about everyone goes down (dies) by the leader's (the pilot) mistake.
- NaomiLv 41 decade ago
the surface meaning is so obvious but I do not get your point here. Is the pilot angry, sad or regretful? a poem must communicate some emotion, some reason for writing what was written. On the surface, yeah, its about a plane crash but I can't feel beyond that.
- LizzieLv 61 decade ago
Sounds like a plane crash to me. It's pretty good but needs some fixing. Look at the next to last stanza, lines one and two-rewrite...
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- 1 decade ago
Okay, it's not a water landing. It's called crashing into the ocean. You know you had a choice when flying and it seems you goofed up.
Pretty Obvious.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Too many demands with too little functionality.
