2014年10月8日星期三

Response to Luna's Ekphrasis Poem

It is a simple photo features a drunk young man on Oktoberfest. However, Luna’s poem has given the man a thoughtful story. The man’s "life dips into the alcohol, fuzzy and dazed.” Here, drinking seems to the man’s life style, and drunkenness seems to his living normality. He may be frustrated at career, relationship, health or something else. There is a huge gap between his expectations and the realities. He chooses to “stops the moment with a cups of alcohol.” The alcohol reflects his current life situation. It applies an usual way that juxtaposes the tangible with the intangible to create such a story. 
   I like the verbal phrase “chase after” in the sentence “He chases after jollification one  ruins himself.” The young man chases after happiness but what leaves him is endless daze. Such tangible happiness bases on intangible sadness. What he innerly really want to chase after is that intangible joy— of success (in life) rather than the crazy festival. 

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