Armor And Lost By J. Ferguson

What happens when you have everything, but in the end, You leave it all behind and want nothing to do with it, and is it even possible for someone to fall from such a high position in life and just become an everyday common man. Many people think not or just cannot believe that some people that are so powerful and have so much influence can become just a hollow shell of the person they used to be. Some men, like J.Ferguson, argues that not only it can, but it can easily happen to anyone and argues this in his poem Armor and Lost causes by using metaphors, word choice and symbolism to further push his point and starting off at the very beginning of the poem he begins this argument.

In the beginning of the poem, Ferguson uses metaphors to compare the life the had he had to people and places, he does this specifically
. .(Ferguson, Lines 27-28)”.

The barker who was once the king who was the man, has in the end, become the opposite of what he becomes. so much so, Ferguson compares the man, to that of a freak show where people or things are ridiculed and humiliated for who they are, and while it was exactly like that, the metaphor used showed him how far below in status and power he has. Ferguson then also uses the specific symbolism in different parts of the poem to help express the metaphors he uses.

Ferguson explains that the two things that symbolized who the man was, was his crown and his mountain, the crown representing his status, and the mountain representing his possessions .The reason so, Like I was explaining earlier, was because the king is of the highest of status, so in order to not only show, but to prove he has obtained that said status, you would need land a crown to let people now if you're actually legitimate. So when ferguson wrote,
“I used to be King of the Mountain . . . Crown is broken, Mountain is gone .(Ferguson