To the Moon p. 162

I choose the poem “To the Moon” for a couple different reasons, one of the main reasons being I love the moon. I mean between it and the sun I would have to go with the moon. Plus the moon won’t cause me to burn in 3 minutes flat. That’s my record for fastest sun burn. Anyway, onto more interesting reasons why I picked the poem “To the Moon” is because it shadows the human life cycle. This depiction is shown mainly in the first stanza and a little in the second stanza. The way that I see it the moon is personified. It mirrors a human female forever searching for her life partner. As the moon goes through its cycles so does a human, growing and getting dimmer with age. I also see in the first paragraph that the moon is lonely and feels like an outcast among its fellow stars which are similar in appearance. It circles the earth day in and day out to see if it can find its forever moon. And as the moon continuously encircles the earth it starts to become dimmer which indicates sadness as mentioned before. In the last two lines of the first stanza, it states that the moon is a joyless eye that finds no object worth its constancy. It is one of a kind but this is not what it desires.       

One of the other reasons that I adore the moon is because even when shrouded with eternal darkness it shines through to depict that even in hate there is love; even in darkness there is light and where there are enemies there are friends. As the sunsets it takes all the hopeful feelings and brightness away from the world leaving darkness and despair in its place. However the earth is not without the light of guidance. The moon takes over and provides a ray of peace. It shows that there is still light at the end of a tunnel and if you follow its light you will find your way.