The Prison with Wireless Bars

By Amirali Goodarzvand Chegini

You touch, not my heart, but it’s in your hand

You laugh, not for me, but read it on screen

You enjoy from a sea sitting on sand

But you have just a photo of this scene

You’ve drowned in the world of happy faces

Even when you cry, a face with fake tear

Your world has taken you to places

That there are no-ones waiting for your care

You see blur like you are disconnected

Your LTE caused this disconnection

And in a cage whose bars are neglected

Does it come with two-year soul protection?

An earthquake won’t shake you back to earth

I wish I could see you out of this sheath

Amirali Goodarzvand Chegini in his sonnet, the prison with wireless bars, explores the isolation caused by technology. He uses figurative devices to deliver his message in an effective way. In this poem he symbolically refers to the social media where all people look happy even though it contrasts with real world; “You’ve drowned in the world of happy faces”. On the other hand, he implies the emotionless way expressing emotions in the next line; “Even when you cry, a face with fake tear”. This line also creates an insightful contrast with the previous line that shows how confusing the social media might be. These lines are followed by “no one waiting for your care” to imply that the social media with all of its complexity doesn’t provide a convenient place that people feel belong to it. In addition, he uses an irony to demonstrate the isolation caused by technology; “Your LTE caused this disconnection”. Although LTE is the fastest internet connection, Chegini presents it as the reason of disconnection of humans. He goes even further by accusing technology to harm the soul and mental of humans; “Does it come with two-year soul protection?” He is being satirical in this line that people care about the protection plan for they devices and being oblivious about the harm it causes about depression. Chegini ends his poem by a hyperbole to reveal that people have gone so deep into technology, and nothing can wake them up. Overall, he is trying to warn people about the consequences of technology and make them aware of the dangers in the modern life.

I really enjoyed reading Percy Bysshe Shelley’ sonnet, Ozymandias. The main theme of this poem in my opinion is that no matter how powerful you are, one day you will die and become nothing. This poem tells a story of a traveler who describes the statue of a powerful king in the middle of desert. He describes it as a broken statue that shows the fact that humans would become basically nothing after death, and the fame and power of them won’t help them after they die. Shelley has used a lot of imageries in her poem; “two vast and trunkless legs of stone/ stand in the desert… sneer of cold command”. It helps the reader to visualize the desert and the arrogant expression of statue. These imageries make me feel that even if I become so rich or powerful, after my death only my name will stay in world and nothing about my power. Shelly uses an irony to reveals the weakness after death; “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings…/ Nothing beside remains.” She puts the power of the king next to his broken statue at the middle a desert to emphasize about the fact that the death is the end of power and you can’t prevent it by your money or authority. I’ve found the theme if this poem so connected to Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth. This poem explores the same theme as the tomorrow, tomorrow speech at the end of play, where Macbeth realizes his tragic flaw and admits that all he has done for power was useless when after his death everything would become nothing. Therefore, I think if we do all kind of evil actions to gain money or power, nothing will last but a bad name in the history. In opinion, when just a name lasts in the world from us, why that shouldn’t be a good name for all services we’ve offered to the world. Avicii says: “one day you’ll leave this world behind, so live a life you will remember.”