My school is doing this "poem summary" thing. It could've been on a song, so I did cancer. This is what i turned in:
This is a song by My Chemical Romance (but written by Gerard Way, the lead singer) called "Cancer." It describes the horrors and effects that cancer, gives to a person. I chose this poem because it seems really humane, and describes what it probably feels like for the person with the disease in a brutally honest way. I heard that cancer is diagnosed to one out of three people and that really terrifies me because it's such a high rate. The poem is written in first person, by a person who has cancer.
In the first verse, it says how a person with Cancer would probably not want you to look at them because you might think that they look awful and sick. It makes you feel like he is always thirsty. Either literally, or metaphorically- thirsty to live a normal life. It says how he might have to call up his relatives and accept death, because it may come sooner than he'd like. And finally, it shows how hard it is for him to leave his loved ones if he needs to die. In the second verse, it again, repeats "Now turn away", again referring to the hate of the way he may look, and how all his hair is fallen out from the illness and chemo therapy, which he's sick and tired of. The poem shows that he actually feels agony. Again, either literally from the illness or metaphorically- the agony of saying good bye to the ones he loves and cares about. The poem says that he knows that he may not live to see his wedding day,"Know that I will never marry". This song also stresses the fact that a person with cancer must get used to the fact that they may die. "But counting down the days to go," tells the reader that he is dreading death, and somehow expecting it. The line, "It just ain't livin'" shows that he isn't living the way he wants to. The final verse of this song might be held on the person with cancer's death bed. "That if you say/ Good bye today/ I'd ask you to be true", it's like saying a final "good bye" and a "take care". In the end, it finally repeats, how hard it is to leave the ones they love, "Cause the hardest part of this is leaving you." |
