I think the poem conveys an important message about how our thoughts creates motives in our minds and we interpret it in actions. The poem stood out to me because of the title; the words, motives and thoughts, have intertwined meanings. Lauryn Hill was great at speaking but I think it would've been more powerful if she wasn't reading it and looking down the whole time. "Social delusion, clearly constructed, Human condition, morals corrupted". I think this part of the poem talks about how the media is corrupting our minds and changing our point of views. The media contributes to the change of our thoughts and motives. Lastly, I think that this is a poem it because it is structures as on and there's a rhythm to it as well as rhyming words. There are also literary devices used in the poem.
I think that Lauryn Hill is telling her audience that everyone is caught up in our corrupted society when we don't object or respond things that we dont find right even when we know it leads to a negative outcome. Especially when she mentions "when the blind leads the blind..." that statement really stood out to me because I interpret it as being that the only result would lead to devastation. Aside from her personal motives and and personal thoughts she really touched base on our global issues, and how even though we live in a more modern and up-to-date time close mindedness, and racial indifferences still occur. I really liked how she hit on those subjects that most would neglect or maybe even ignore. However, think the biggest problem is that most of us lie our way through life, pretending that everythings okay. That when somethings like when racism or war occurs we close our eyes and put our hands to our ears because it distrupts the perfect world we all imagined to live in; the perfect world our ancestors always fought to live in. And when a word like 'war' pops up every now and then, some of us dont want to remember those hard days; so we give up, because we're tired. And thats exactly why it leads back to the first point, where some of us choose to ignore. Maybe it's just a simple fact that we've grown too tired to care anymore.
I think the poem conveys an important message about how our thoughts creates motives in our minds and we interpret it in actions. The poem stood out to me because of the title; the words, motives and thoughts, have intertwined meanings. Lauryn Hill was great at speaking but I think it would've been more powerful if she wasn't reading it and looking down the whole time. "Social delusion, clearly constructed, Human condition, morals corrupted". I think this part of the poem talks about how the media is corrupting our minds and changing our point of views. The media contributes to the change of our thoughts and motives. Lastly, I think that this is a poem it because it is structures as on and there's a rhythm to it as well as rhyming words. There are also literary devices used in the poem.
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I think that Lauryn Hill is telling her audience that everyone is caught up in our corrupted society when we don't object or respond things that we dont find right even when we know it leads to a negative outcome. Especially when she mentions "when the blind leads the blind..." that statement really stood out to me because I interpret it as being that the only result would lead to devastation. Aside from her personal motives and and personal thoughts she really touched base on our global issues, and how even though we live in a more modern and up-to-date time close mindedness, and racial indifferences still occur. I really liked how she hit on those subjects that most would neglect or maybe even ignore. However, think the biggest problem is that most of us lie our way through life, pretending that everythings okay. That when somethings like when racism or war occurs we close our eyes and put our hands to our ears because it distrupts the perfect world we all imagined to live in; the perfect world our ancestors always fought to live in. And when a word like 'war' pops up every now and then, some of us dont want to remember those hard days; so we give up, because we're tired. And thats exactly why it leads back to the first point, where some of us choose to ignore. Maybe it's just a simple fact that we've grown too tired to care anymore.
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