Analysis Of The Poem ' At Fourteen ' Essay
Edward Hirsh, who was born in Chicago, wrote “At Sixteen” and published in 1996. According to Hirsh biography, his “childhood was involved with poetry and became a well-known advocate for poetry as he grew”. In the poem of “At Sixteen”, an individual man had a natural strong desire to satisfy a carnal appetite with women. He was a waiter at a downtown restaurant and took his girlfriend to parties on Saturdays who wanted to get married and get pregnant. The other waiters laughed at his appetite when he wanted her so much he thought he die for it because she cared and loved for him. Furthermore, he hasn’t decided he wanted to “close the steel door” or stay with his girlfriend permanent and later out of the blue, got a new job in a warehouse next to the factory where dozens of women feeding machines.
The individual character has an appetite for women.…