Movement Description: The Slam movement began in Chicago in the late 1980s, and became very popular as the 1990s rose. Slam was a performance of poetry, not just someone speaking it. Poets would get on stage and move entire audiences as they bled their sorrows and joys to those who who listened. At one point, slam became a competition where the poets were scored by the audience, based off their performances. This competion spread from Chicago, to the rest of the nation. Tyehimba Jess and Patricia Smith are Slam poets.
Poem Analysis: In the first stanza of the poem you can tell Jones is going to addrees the use of technology since he presents himself as one. When he repeats it is good to touch he is saying that it is good to touch not only the phone, but in general, since contract has become a somewhat foreign thing. When Jones refers to click and cliques, he shows how different things are. Unless you have a pixels in front of your have you can't have friends. He uses books as another example by comparing Facebook to real book, in the realization that no one reads anymore. People feel that they will die unless they reminding everyone they're alive. Without the recognition of his "friends", the speaker feels that he might as well not exist, while he only has a very small portion of friends in real life. "... apple picking has always come at a great cost", refers to the exile of Adam and Eve after they disobeyed God and paid the price. People also pay a lot for apple products. The rest of the poem summarizes the current relationship of humans and technology. Without this technology there would be no relationships ($9.95/month refers to online dating services), there is no control over the use of technology because everyone wants human contact, without tech you will be left alone. In the ending of the poem, technology is capitalized and is asked by the reader to reverse everything, as if it had some type of power over the universe. As if it was a god. Also, the speaker asks to be human again, because with all of this tech there is no real love, adventure, conversations, etc because everyone is hiding their faces behind a screen.
Literary Devices: Metaphor was used constantly to compare technology and traditional interactions and how, tech has taken over every thing. Assonance was used in line 55-59. Hyperbole was used in the comparisons that he made, like the one about Adam and Eve.
Poem Analysis: In the first stanza of the poem you can tell Jones is going to addrees the use of technology since he presents himself as one. When he repeats it is good to touch he is saying that it is good to touch not only the phone, but in general, since contract has become a somewhat foreign thing. When Jones refers to click and cliques, he shows how different things are. Unless you have a pixels in front of your have you can't have friends. He uses books as another example by comparing Facebook to real book, in the realization that no one reads anymore. People feel that they will die unless they reminding everyone they're alive. Without the recognition of his "friends", the speaker feels that he might as well not exist, while he only has a very small portion of friends in real life. "... apple picking has always come at a great cost", refers to the exile of Adam and Eve after they disobeyed God and paid the price. People also pay a lot for apple products. The rest of the poem summarizes the current relationship of humans and technology. Without this technology there would be no relationships ($9.95/month refers to online dating services), there is no control over the use of technology because everyone wants human contact, without tech you will be left alone. In the ending of the poem, technology is capitalized and is asked by the reader to reverse everything, as if it had some type of power over the universe. As if it was a god. Also, the speaker asks to be human again, because with all of this tech there is no real love, adventure, conversations, etc because everyone is hiding their faces behind a screen.
Literary Devices: Metaphor was used constantly to compare technology and traditional interactions and how, tech has taken over every thing. Assonance was used in line 55-59. Hyperbole was used in the comparisons that he made, like the one about Adam and Eve.