The Casual Cold Look Of A Mugger Poem Analysis

The poem is talking about two different persons who have the opportunity of coming together face to face. Each of them form part of a different social class. There are many ways to interpret this poem, many readers may take it as discrimination purpose, but in reality this is a story that describes the issues that occur in today’s society, which is discrimination based on appearances and feeling superior to others based on social standings. The first stanza is introduced by the speaker describing whom he is encountering with. He describes the person in front of him as having “the casual cold look of a mugger”, we can already interpret how the speaker begins to judge based on appearances. Furtheron the speaker is imagining and creating false conclusion of whom the person is, he mentions “the way I eat my steaks is like if I were eating out of them” which he is trying to say, that people like the one he is facing do not even have the opportunity
For example, the speaker mentions in line four, “in black sneakers laced with white complex pattern like a set of intentional scars” the author emphasises how beneficial he may be in comparison to the person who is now facing him. Another example provided in the story of how pensive and illustrative the speaker is being is shown in line eight, “He has the casual cold look of a mugger” the speaker is describing his mirror facing person in a discriminative matter. The author begins adding a more pensive tone in the short story in lines fifteen and forward,”I don’t know if I am in his power” the speaker commences to feel frightened about where he is and whom he is surrounded by, he is afraid like mentioned in line sixteen of losing physical materials “...he could take my coat so easily, my briefcase, my life”. The author provided the reader with several ideas, that are taken into action in a daily matter all