The image of people pulling their legs in for you, as that is something that people always do out of kindness but you do not even realize the kindnesses because it is such a common thing so we are basically operating without thinking through our natural kindness instinct.
The Poem argument is that kindness still lives in the world today even if people say it does not. She wants us to consider this by saying keep doing it and maybe try and think about being kind a little more often. My response to this argument is that I believe Lameris is absolutely correct, we as a society still have hope in becoming more together and making the world a better place.
I relate this to “The Hawk” because small acts of kindnesses occur way more often than we think. In “The Hawk” a homeless man was living near a football field and the lacrosse team set up a net protecting him from being hit. Small things like this can really make a persons day. An example from the poem is “and to say thank you to the person handing it”(Lameris). Although this way seem very generic it is something we do everyday that is kind and polite.
This is an pandemic poem by this quote here, “Or how strangers still say “bless you when someone sneezes, a leftover from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying.” During the pandemic we would not even say bless you, we would look at the person with a weird face basically saying get away from me. The pandemic changed my perspective on the poem just from this quote because it is something we paused in doing for a brief period because of the pandemic.
At first the person I talked thought it was about the pandemic but they did not realize it was written before the pandemic. And they also said how they did not realize these little things that we do everyday. They pretty much had the same reaction that I did.
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