Why is she face booking the nation?
Private situations
Subject to strange speculation
Common sense on vacation
Senseless acts and tactics
Foolish acrobatics
Ridiculous and you want me to like
I cannot condone the hype
He checks in from everywhere he goes
Perhaps he feels the world should know
He's on the block, it's much too hot
Someone has a plot and it's too late to stop
They put their relationship all over the page
The good the bad, third time engaged
Is it real or is it staged? Click and look
It's all on face book
It should be a positive place
Pleasant cyberspace but it's become
A disgrace when fights take place
He has a bad attitude
She is nearly nude
Someone's being sued
No one thinks first
Simply hunger and thirst
For public attention
Be careful what you mention
Heavy hitters deliver on twitter
Others choose to over expose
Anything goes, foul language, meaningless prose
Heaven only knows, the highs and lows
How much nerve it took
To publicize your inner-child
On Face Book
From: Uptown Déjà Vu
Summary
“Face Book” by Jimmie Ware is a poem centered on social justice, travel and movement. The poem develops its subject through recurring images and shifts in emotional pressure rather than reducing the experience to a single statement.
Analysis
Voice
A personal, first-person speaker combines recollection with direct emotional address.
Style and form
The poem is line-driven, compressed, first-person. The poem moves by accumulation: images, references, and tonal turns build on one another, so meaning emerges from their relationships as much as from narrative sequence.
Themes and imagery
Its strongest thematic currents include social justice, travel and movement. Concrete images give those abstractions physical weight, while changes in diction and pace keep the poem from settling into a single emotional register.
Reading the poem
A productive way to read “Face Book” is to watch how its images change function as the poem progresses. Details that initially establish scene or memory become emotional evidence. The result is a poem whose argument is carried through association, rhythm, and image as much as through explicit statement.
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Source & rights
Source: Uptown Déjà Vu
Rights: Copyright controlled by the rights holder. Published here with permission.