Little Miss Sunshine: The Thirst For Extinction

The poem that I choose to go with Little Miss Sunshine is The Thirst for Extinction. This poem is about the speaker’s passion for living draining away as time passes. Frank in Little Miss Sunshine is an ex-scholar who had previously attempted suicide after a man he fell in love with found someone else. He had been fired from his job because of his feelings for this man and was no longer able to own his apartment. He gets into a state of mind that he has lost his passion for life for the spring of his youth is over. To quote Baudelaire, “Sad spirit who once loved the battle-ground, hope whose bright spur used to arouse your flame no longer rides you” (Lines 1-3)! The speaker has fallen out of love with life just like Frank. Now that Frank has had this experience, he no longer wants to find love. He wants to run from the pain and sorrow that he felt when he watched his love interest in the arms of another man. Both these lives around these 2 people revolve around the solution of death, however, no story has only one type of ending. …show more content…
She says, “I’m so glad you’re still here” (Little Miss Sunshine). He then responds with “Well, that makes one of us” (Little Miss Sunshine). This interaction parallel’s with the quote, “The spring is gone and all its odors fade” (Baudelaire lines 10). While in the poem, it truly is about the speaker’s death. However, Frank’s inner self died the day he had attempted suicide, but that doesn’t mean it has to stay like that. Time moves forward for Frank as the earth continues to rotate on its axis. All Frank can do is let it happen and watch the world continue to