BANZAGALES, CLAIRE V.

 AFRO-ASIAN LITERATURE

BSED II-N

To whom should I speak today?

I.To whom should I speak today?

Brothers are evil;

The friends of today love not.

II. To whom should I speak today?

 Hearts are covetous;

Every man plundereth the goods of his fellow.

III. To whom should I speak today?

The peaceful man is in evil case;

Good is cast aside everywhere.

IV. To whom should I speak today?

Yesterday is forgotten;

Me do not as they were done by nowadays.

V. To whom should I speak today?

There is no heart of man

Whereon one might lean.

VI. To whom should I speak today?

The righteous are no more;

The land is given over to evil-doers.

VII. To whom should I speak today?

There is a lack of confidants;

Men have recourse to a stranger to tell their troubles.

VIII. To whom should I speak today?

I am laden with misery,

And am without a comforter"

     To whom should I speak today?

By ERIC PEET

            As I have read the poem the first question comes in my mind is “How the author come up with this kind of literary piece? Or what does the things in his mind to write a poem like this?” So I started to further research about the author who is Eric Peet and about his poem.

             This is the most emotion-conveying poems that I have encountered. The poem, although short compared to other great poems, conveyed the experiences of the author during World War 1.  I have researched that the author served as lieutenant during the World War 1.  He experiences betrayal, loneliness and other negative feelings that one could possibly experience in a war.

             To whom should I speak today? Just like me, I always ask this question in me whenever I feel those negative feelings which have also experienced by the author. Well, I am not a lieutenant like him who serves in a war but I can see myself to him. That feeling when you don’t even know who the one you can run to, lean on and cry on because all you have in your mind that you are not sure of the people around you. You are afraid to talk to people because you don’t know who is good or evil. You don’t know what to do but to question yourself “To whom should I speak today?”

             This poem goes out to everyone who is emotional. That’s why I began to like this.If I were to rate the poem on a scale of 1-10, with 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest, I would give it an 8. Because I’m not just satisfy of the length of it, I believe that it shoul have been longer and it would be great.