I’m Disconnecting

Living in a world without technology,

Can you imagine how it would be?

 

Would we see the world the way our parents remember,

Or from our devices is it too hard to dismember?

 

We’ve been contemplating our electronic navels for too long.

And even my childhood was taken where it doesn’t belong.

 

We have become slaves to the technology that surrounds us.

This technology lets us in silence, discuss.

 

Like cyborgs we have a machine attached, always on.

We have become a generation of smartphones and more ons.

 

We pretend not to notice the social isolation,

It’s captivated, controlled, confounded our nation.

 

Perhaps if we stopped, put down our phones and looked around,

We would be able to see the loss profound.

 

So, I will no longer be so accepting,

Just as soon as I text them that I’m disconnecting.

 

 

“I’m Disconnecting,” by Shaylyn Gordon is the perfect example of the technology based world that we live in. She captured the perfect amount of irony and put it all together in a swift rhyming couplet poem. She added the downsides of technology into her poem and represented how society has responded. Gordon included similes, alterations and irony, which all beautifully compliment her literary allusion to The Veldt. The line “We’ve been contemplating our electronic navels for too long,” is a quote taken from The Veldt that fits in wonderfully with her theme. Gordon simply states the shame that our generation should have for making technology such a necessity, but makes it easy to comprehend from the point of view of a 21st century child. The question “Why do we only focus on the tangible or the material in our culture?” directly connects to Gordon’s poem, because she also questions a lot of our tech-lifestyle choices. Technology is going to continue to grow more and more as the year’s progress. Shaylyn Gordon has sent an eternal message to our ever-growing electronical world, and it is safe to assume that her passion may help us conquer the world’s technology indulgent.