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Why He Was Told And Look Forward To Tomorrow By Ignatow
The author, Ignatow makes me want to answers his question at the end because he gives the readers all the evidence of why he should get live longer and then he asks us as the readers and ends the poem right there. In this poem the speaker is someone lives a boring life and not at all spontaneous. He might be afraid that something will go wrong because he always does what people tell him to do. He his not really looking forward to tomorrow, even though in this line it says that he is, “as I was told, and look forward to tomorrow.” At the end of the poems he asks us why he can't live forever. Most people think that maybe it is not ideal to live forever because then life will get boring. If the speaker was living his life to the fullest and was
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