The Corner and Nighthawks

Manuel Espinosa Professor Stefanovic ENC 1102 21 February 2013 NIGHTHAWKS Nighthawks by Samuel Yellen is a poem virtually three individuals who be troubled with life. These individuals are occupying the same space and they appear to be relatively close from each other, that they arein accompaniment disconnected from one another. The utterer sets a hopeless tone to help the reader analyze and exploitually understand the characters feelings. This is a poem based on a famouspainting by Edward Hopper that portrays people seance in a downtown diner late at night.Yellen wants his readersto be able to recognize that warmth and affection is the easiest way to a successful and joyful human interaction. The poems setting takes moorage at the corner of rescind and Bleak (1) and the time is the nights most desolated hour (2). Empty corners and night hours are an infamous mix. Evil deeds are performed at desolate corners during odd hours of the night. In the corner is Als Coffee Cup o r the Hamburger Tower (3), only crummy and plain shops would stay open till late hours at night and the servers would use language corresponding be with you in a jiff (7).Inside the establishment there are three nighthawks seated there (6). Yellenuses nighthawks because the characters chance on at night and hawks are lonely animals which in this drama do not speak (4). some other connotation is to perceive hawks as ferocious and independent creatures or how Yellen better describe them patrons of life (6). integrity of the nighthawks, the single man whose hunched back we see (9) challenged his fate when he put a gas to his head in Russian roulette (10). Even though he won the bet (11) his personify posture indicates he is troubled or pensive. And now he lives his x years guarantee (12). The vocalizer wants to clarify that the character might off cheated death that time by dying is inevitable. Then, we have liner us, the two central characters (13). They have finished their c offee, and have lit a contemplative queer (14-15). These characters are meditative cigarette smoking is associated with worried or stressed individuals. His hand lies close, but not touching hers (16). Now it is mute there is a male and a female character. The speaker points out that they are close but not ouching each other, describing no emotional familiarity between the characters. A sexual connection is implied when the speaker refers to a darkened room (17) and continues to give explicit details of this encounter mouth burned mouth, flesh round of drinks ground on a ravaged flesh (18-19). Yellen wants to show readers the difference between a sexual act and an intimate connection. This couple shared the ultimate bonding experience between two human beings and stock-still they were not able to connect spiritually but only physically.The speaker gives example of this when he mentions no local anesthetic habitation and no name (20). The speaker finishes the poem with a sarcast ic tone. He implies that everyone that peer done that curve of plate glass (5) should be fortune to be none of these (21) referring to the nighthawks. He assumes that anybody who compares themselves with these characters, using the self-complacent eye (22), should be pleased with what they see. With this conclusion Yellen sets himself aside and delivers a powerfully message to the readers.He feels superior to the characters and wants to bemuse that feeling to his readers, not taking in consideration or really understanding the reason the characters are in these situations in the first place. The last stanza our satisfactions satisfy, our pleasures, our plesures please. (23-24), makes emphasis on the way the speaker feels and wants the readers to feel about their own accomplishments, but leaving out the way they should feel about their fellow man. The speaker projects itself as a selfish individual who does not care about less fortunate individuals.It is often state that to have a better world we should care for one another. Yellens idea of human connection shows the total opposite, he emphasizes on his characters faults instead of his qualities. This poem contains many problems that our society faces on a routine basis but unfortunately for the readers, Yellen focused on showing the problem but does not spell a solution. Work Cited McMahan, Elizabeth, Susan X Day, Robert Funk, Linda Coleman. Literature and the Writing Process. Ninth Ed. Boston Longman. 2011. Print Rafeeq O. McGiveron (1998) Yellens Nighthawks, The Explicator, 563,148-149