'My Father Teaches Me To Dream'

A theme discussed a lot in poetry is career. There are three poems that discuss working. The poem by Philip Levine is called, “What Work Is” which will sound familiar since the world already knows what working hard is and most people have parents that work. In the poem, “What Work Is” it talks about how people have to go through their daily lives going to work every day, feeling they are doing the same routine every day. The second poem by Jan Beatty is named, “My Father Teaches me to Dream” and that the poem talks about a similar aspect of life called work. The second poem also talks about how there is a repetition in one’s daily life going to work and coming home. The third poem “The Jobholder” by David Ignatow describes the aspect of how …show more content…
A person needs to know they have to go to work and come home every day. For example, in the poem “My Father Teaches Me to Dream” the author Jan Beatty states that, “You get up. You get on the bus. You don’t look from side to side. You keep your eyes straight ahead. That way nobody bothers you – see? You get the bus. You work all day. You get back on the bus at night. Same thing. You go to sleep. You get up. You do the same thing again.” One could think what do people do when they are out of work, and the answer would be that they hang out with friends, spend time with family or they would go to sleep as soon as they came home. People question why people should have to go to work if they don’t something that they want to do all the time, or if they are in a career they don’t want to do. Personally, they should be taking their job seriously no matter what they are doing in their job no matter what so that they can get paid. There are people that have mentioned something in similar words to this, but one thinks that now a person has to learn some new information about what life is like in an everyday setting when they have a full-time job. Routine jobs can lose of happiness and purpose in