The bone marrow
Just having a thought on how one body would crazy looks like without bones seems. The shape of the body, posture, and body’s overall appearance would be unimaginable without bones. The subject of the poem “hello bones” is about a person who does not contend with his body and keeps on blaming the bones for making noise. Robert DeMaria is the author of the poem written in the book the college handbook of creative Writing page 110 4th Edition in 2014. In the poem, DeMaria brings out the uncontended idea of where human beings are not satisfied. The principal claims in the poetry are complaining of bones rattling in the flesh, don’t want to be reminded that the bones support the body, joints ache, the person reminds the bones that he needs them since he is a human and needs the bones for the body to function they have. Appropriately and without bones, he will not be anywhere, not even will he be able to stand.
Hearing bones rattling in the fresh is irritating, and most of the time, it reminds one that he or she is getting old. In the poem, the person dislikes hearing this sound of the bones since they remember that old age is right approaching (Richard 269). The bones’ rattling represents dry bones with less fresh, and many people do not like it since it means thinness in human beings. To comfort oneself, the person reminds the bones to do their job of supporting the body without making a noise. Some of us feel irritated by bones and do not contend with the shape that our body has and blame the bones’ structure for not having a more significant body. A clear indication of a person who does not like his or her body by the bones rattling. The person feels that the bones remind her that they are the ones that support her or him. Instead, the persona thinks that the bones should be quiet and not make any noise to remind him/ her that they have less flesh in the body. Even if the bones support the body, the person doesn’t want to remember that since it reminds him or her that there are fewer fats and flesh in the body; hence it is not attractive. In the second and third sentences of the poem, the persona says,” I don’t have to be continuously reminded that you support me” here, you help me refers to the bones supporting the body (rigg 274). The persona is one of the types who believe that having a big body feels attractive and does not like the body she has at the moment.
The bone marrow has overworked, and the joints in the body ache. The persona feels tired and thinks that the body is becoming a burden to carry. Every joint that supports the bones feels like it is not possible to continue having the body. Every time the bones ache, the persona reminded that retirement time is almost (sebold and alice 13). The persona also feels that it is too early for the bones to start asking for retirement time to rest. In the sixth line of the poem, the persona says, “don’t talk to me about early retirement.” Here the persona implies that retirement is not his will, and still, he wants to walk and explore the world.
Human beings require bones for the proper functioning of the body. The person reminds the bones that no matter how tired they might be, he still needs them for the body to function correctly. Without the bones, the persona feels that he will not be anywhere since he will not walk. For the body to be straight and have the right posture, bones play an essential role in this function. In the tenth line in the poem, the persona reminds the bones that he just but a human and still needs the bones for survival. Without bones, human beings would collapse like an empty coat, and since flesh will have nothing to support them.
Just like the way an empty coat falls, the persona compares him with the coat when there are no bones. Here the poet uses a metaphor in explaining how one would fall without bones. At the end of the poem, we have left imaging what would happen if the bones were absent in a human body. Having a body without bones is not a human being but a strange creature that has never existed.
Human beings should learn to appreciate every part of their body, no matter how small it might look. The persona complains of the bones rattling, but in the end, imaging a body without a bone is horrifying, and people should appreciate the little they have. The same bones seen to make bones are the ones that one can’t exist without them. People need to understand their bodies, whether they feel they need much or less of what they have. Learning to be appreciative makes one view things in a different dimension and positively see things.
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