- Greg Bordowitz’s “Pandemic Haiku” dives deep into the pandemic. The piece maintains a serious tone, and has a minimalistic design. These rhetorical properties contributes to the poem’s meaning because it shows how people felt during the beginning of the pandemic. The serious tone and grey color give gloomy and sad vibes. The poem overall discusses the affects of the pandemic on people, depicting what it would look like from day to day. Every day blended into the next, and the rhetorical properties emphasizes this point.
- This text resonates with social concerns of the present because many people are still struggling to get back to normal life after the pandemic. This piece shows how everyone was living the same day over and over, and now everyone seems to be lost. Towards the end, Bordowitz talks about the long term affects of the pandemic saying, “Long haulers suffer Fatigue confusion short breaths For several months.” Many people find it difficult to get back to regular life because of both mental and physical reasons, and this poem shows that.
- Through this text, we can see how art can make impacts on social or political concerns. This specific piece of art focused on the pandemic, which we’re still going through, and it made a statement on how we live our lives. This is an example of how art can be so relevant to social and political concerns because writers use their own voices to speak for the rest of the people. Artist’s also use their own experience, as well as others’, in order to send an accurate message.
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I really like how you acknowledge that many pepople have struggled to return to their regular lives and this poem definitely showed that! While reading this poem I also emphasized this line “Long haulers suffer Fatigue confusion short breaths For several months” which is a great pick up.
I totally agree with what you said about this piece of art. I love you mentioned that the artist used their own experience to have a voice in the society. Definitely, when you work too hard and did not give yourself a free time to have a mental breaking, it will take longer to heal and back to normal. Especially with virtual school. Moving to online is pretty challenging and it took us a while to adjust. And now back to school in person again which we are not used to it again….