Nye Post 1

In the poem Jerusalem Nye stated “I’m not interested in who suffered the most. I’m interested in people getting over it.” This line is meaningful to me in my life and I think it is interesting because it is very relatable to life. A lot of times I feel as though people believe they have it so hard and they do not take the time to stop and think about anyone else. I see this a lot in today’s society. People walk around and say how hard their life is but they don’t stop and think about how much worse off half the world is. People, including myself, make things out to be these big productions but in all reality, in a week it will be nothing. This line in this poem makes me realize how incredibly selfish society is these days. With this simple statement a lot is put into perspective for me. A lot of times people are always interested to know someone’s problems or flaws, but what we all should be worrying about is getting over those hard times in our lives.

I also think this poem has a lot to do with finding a solution to our problems. “Each carries a tender spot: something our lives forgot to give us. A man builds a house and says, “I am native now.”A woman speaks to a tree in place of her son. And olives come. A child’s poem says, I don’t like wars, they end up with monuments.”He’s painting a bird with wings wide enough to cover two roofs at once.” These are all examples, to me, in the poem of finding a solution. Each one of the characters in the poem is faced with a problem that caused them to suffer, and not only did Nye demonstrate how they suffered she also showed how each character overcame their obstacle. The father in the poem was hit with a rock and now he will never have any hair where he was hurt. The solution to this problem was that he showed up back at his house with pears on his door step. Finding the pairs demonstrated to me, that although something bad may happen in your life, something better will come along to put your life into perspective and make you realize that it could be worse. “…Something always has a next” means to me that no matter how bad something is something better is always going to come next.