Dear Siri – Mini Inquiry Project
Dear Siri,
siri, why do we spend so much time online?
why does every minute on here cost a dime?
we’ve been contemplating our electronic navels for too long,
and even my childhood was taken where it doesn’t belong.
why is our need to hold stronger than ours to feel?
though, it felt pretty great when i got an iPhone deal.
each new deal coming out is greater than the last,
and my mind’s been oblivious to the time that has past.
the time that could’ve been used building connections,
was taken over by Tinder and its chronic disaffections.
the time that i could’ve spend playing outside,
was crashed on, like a wave, when i slowly died.
but here, i revive,
cutting through my past life with knives.
here i will listen, see, and feel..
just as soon as i buy this brand new deal.
“Dear Siri,” by Shea Smeltzer 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 smoothly added the downsides of technology into her poem, however represented mankind by resenting these downsides and continued to indulge in the devices. Smeltzer included similes, metaphors, repetition, 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. Smeltzer simply states the shame that our generation should have for making our phones 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 addresses to Smeltzer’s poem, because she also questions a lot of our tech-lifestyle choices, even though she supports our choices. Technology is going to continue to take over our world more and more as our years descend. Shea Smeltzer 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.