Review Of The Poem 'Medicine' By Natasha Rich
Laughter – A – Medicine (Stefanie Natasha Rich)
Explication
Laughter – A – Medicine, the title itself shows that the poem is about laughter. How laughter can be a medicine and what types of laughter that we have. The theme of this poem is all about laughter and how it can affects our life and the people around us.
The poet presents the theme through a first person speaker, which is the poet herself. She describes what she kind of laughter that people use to do and some situations that causes the laughter.
The first line of the poem; “Hahaha” shows the sound of laughter that we usually make. This is the common form of laughter and the intensity of the laughter grows by adding ha’s. The second line, “Laugh out loud” is taken from the abbreviation of LOL. It is a common internet slang that widely used to indicates something that is very funny. It is used for expressing bodily reactions, in particular laughter, as in text.
In the third and fourth line, the poet said that we can laugh on anything and everything. Even if the situation is not funny, still …show more content…
It is frequently used to describe a mocking or disrespectful response, for examples in the case of Abraham and Sarah who laughed at God when God tell them they will bear a child in their old age. Some verses use it as a sign of contempt, Psalm 59:8 “But you, O Lord, laugh at them; you hold all the nations in derision.” Besides that, Solomon in Ecclesiastes 2:2 said that “I said of laughter, ‘It is madness’, and of pleasure, ’what does it accomplish?’ He continues in 7:3, “Sorrow is better than laughter, for when a face is sad a heart may be happy.” Both of these verses are true; a sad person may laugh to cover his sadness, and a person may cry although he is silently happy. Because of this, I personally believe that our own emotion has fail to gives us truth, laughter is not always indicates joy. It can also mean something else, such as anger, sadness, or
Explication
Laughter – A – Medicine, the title itself shows that the poem is about laughter. How laughter can be a medicine and what types of laughter that we have. The theme of this poem is all about laughter and how it can affects our life and the people around us.
The poet presents the theme through a first person speaker, which is the poet herself. She describes what she kind of laughter that people use to do and some situations that causes the laughter.
The first line of the poem; “Hahaha” shows the sound of laughter that we usually make. This is the common form of laughter and the intensity of the laughter grows by adding ha’s. The second line, “Laugh out loud” is taken from the abbreviation of LOL. It is a common internet slang that widely used to indicates something that is very funny. It is used for expressing bodily reactions, in particular laughter, as in text.
In the third and fourth line, the poet said that we can laugh on anything and everything. Even if the situation is not funny, still …show more content…
It is frequently used to describe a mocking or disrespectful response, for examples in the case of Abraham and Sarah who laughed at God when God tell them they will bear a child in their old age. Some verses use it as a sign of contempt, Psalm 59:8 “But you, O Lord, laugh at them; you hold all the nations in derision.” Besides that, Solomon in Ecclesiastes 2:2 said that “I said of laughter, ‘It is madness’, and of pleasure, ’what does it accomplish?’ He continues in 7:3, “Sorrow is better than laughter, for when a face is sad a heart may be happy.” Both of these verses are true; a sad person may laugh to cover his sadness, and a person may cry although he is silently happy. Because of this, I personally believe that our own emotion has fail to gives us truth, laughter is not always indicates joy. It can also mean something else, such as anger, sadness, or