The lifestyle we choose to live come with a variety of factors that accommodate our personal needs. Sometimes there are things that we don’t like to do but are part of the way we contribute to society whether we enjoy it or not. The idea of satisfaction can range from a broad comfort or to a specific joy that causes us to want it and enjoy it. In the poems “Numbers” and “I Am Trying To Break Your Heart” the speaker both discuss a sense of satisfaction that they both receive. The first poem discusses how the the speaker loves the way that numbers benefit him in everyday interactions, while the second poem discusses the love/hate relationship he has with his ex-lover. The human existence has been dominated by a series of events where the fulfillment
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The first poem lays out the idea in a progressive manner by explaining the many ways in which numbers affect human lifestyle. The conscience created by the poet gives it a positive and friendly feeling to the way that the poet and speaker unite in order to give the message behind the words. Satisfaction can witnessed is present by the actions that numbers do to the individual. On the contrary, the second poem follows an opposing path. In “I Am Trying To Break Your Heart” the poet and speaker branch out in a confusing segregation. The poet has an indecisive ego on the way he feels about his lost companion, so when the speaker talks to us, it can have a hesitant tone the way we understand him. “Numbers” has many quotes such as the following that give a thematic statement about numbers, “Even subtraction is never loss, just addition somewhere else:”, as it stanzas became a broad idea they are then made specific. “five sparrows take away two, the two in someone else 's garden now.” While in “I Am Trying To Break Your Heart”, a specific quote expanded my thinking on the poem. According to the author, Kevin Young, “Loneliness is a science-”. Satisfaction is a noun that occurs through events of cause and effect. With that in mind, a relationship has to have a many factors that come together to make it work. He feels isolated, so the only change for his happiness would be love. In the way the poet and speaker cooperate in “I Am Trying To Break Your Heart” has an oscillating behavior, he either feels love or
The first poem lays out the idea in a progressive manner by explaining the many ways in which numbers affect human lifestyle. The conscience created by the poet gives it a positive and friendly feeling to the way that the poet and speaker unite in order to give the message behind the words. Satisfaction can witnessed is present by the actions that numbers do to the individual. On the contrary, the second poem follows an opposing path. In “I Am Trying To Break Your Heart” the poet and speaker branch out in a confusing segregation. The poet has an indecisive ego on the way he feels about his lost companion, so when the speaker talks to us, it can have a hesitant tone the way we understand him. “Numbers” has many quotes such as the following that give a thematic statement about numbers, “Even subtraction is never loss, just addition somewhere else:”, as it stanzas became a broad idea they are then made specific. “five sparrows take away two, the two in someone else 's garden now.” While in “I Am Trying To Break Your Heart”, a specific quote expanded my thinking on the poem. According to the author, Kevin Young, “Loneliness is a science-”. Satisfaction is a noun that occurs through events of cause and effect. With that in mind, a relationship has to have a many factors that come together to make it work. He feels isolated, so the only change for his happiness would be love. In the way the poet and speaker cooperate in “I Am Trying To Break Your Heart” has an oscillating behavior, he either feels love or