This poem is very honest I should say, it goes in-depth on what happens in real life. It provides a stark contrast to those Shakespearean sonnets we had to read in high school which seemed very long winded at the time. It gets right to point: …show more content…
Not wanting to face our loneliness or sadness is a very real thing people do. Chris Tse continues with this realistic approach in the poem.
In the poem; it references how we glorify heroic actions and noble deeds. And how stories and movies that tend to show the good in mankind and how people should act. Chris Tse pushes the nostalgic look on life aside to paint living as people see it:
In real life nice guys pull out of the race when their tires are slashed or they turn back because they think they left the iron on
And no one adheres to sports film cliches anyway- we’re all selfish and we all want the