Garbageman: The Man With The Orderly Mind Poem by Gwendolyn Brooks
Garbageman: The Man With The Orderly Mind
What do you think of us in fuzzy endeavor, you whose directions are
sterling, whose lunge is straight?
Can you make a reason, how can you pardon us who memorize the rules and never score?
Who memorize the rules from your own text but never quite transfer them to the game,
Who never quite receive the whistling ball, who gawk, begin to absorb the crowd's own roar.
Is earnest enough, may earnest attract or lead to light;
Is light enough, if hands in clumsy frenzy, flimsy whimsically, enlist;
Is light enough when this bewilderment crying against the dark shuts down the shades?
Dilute confusion. Find and explode our mist.
I would not have known it was about the garbage man. I guess they are different this side
I'm sure many learned poets consider this a great poem, but I simply do not get it. Ms. Brooks throws down so many images and none of them seem to relate to the title of the work.
Dilute confusion. Find and explode our mist.....yeah; reduce the confusion of universal welfare, universal unity and humanity; delete the misty racism by delineation divided nations; please let us be one over all the world; great poem penned on to be the human's orderly mind
'Is light enough? ' - A point to ponder! Congratulations on the poem's selection as the 'Modern Poem of the Day'!
A very intelligent thought-provoking poem.5 Stars full
5 Stars for this excellent thought-provoking poem by the famous North American poetess Gwendolyn Brooks
An insightful rendition that leaves the reader with an enigma to ponder....
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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I will not go into this poem. It requires much writing to be just to it. There is much in these lines, but I will say that " how can you pardon us" is a statement in the form of a question around which the poem is based or revolves.