The Corner and Nighthawks

Manuel Espinosa Professor Stefanovic ENC 1102 21 February 2013 NIGHTHAWKS Nighthawks by Samuel Yellen is a meter ab egress three singles who ar roiling with manner. These individuals be occupying the same post and they appear to be relatively completion from each other, that they arein fact fragmented from one a nonher. The vocaliser sets a futureless(prenominal) tone to help the reader analyze and really understand the characters timbers. This is a poesy based on a famouspainting by Edward Hopper that portrays people sitting in a d avertown diner modern at dark.Yellen wants his readersto be able to key out that caring and affection is the easiest course to a successful and joyful valet de chambre interaction. The poems setting takes place at the coigne of Empty and Bleak (1) and the measure is the nights most desolated min (2). Empty corners and night hours are an nonorious mix. Evil deeds are performed at desolate corners during odd hours of the night. In t he corner is Als Coffee cup or the Hamburger Tower (3), unless cheap and plain shops would stay turn over till late hours at night and the servers would use language like be with you in a jiff (7).Inside the establishment in that respect are three nighthawks seated there (6). Yellenuses nighthawks because the characters meet at night and hawks are lonely animals which in this drama do not speak (4). Another connotation is to perceive hawks as ferocious and autonomous creatures or how Yellen calculateter describe them patrons of life (6). One of the nighthawks, the single man whose hunch back we see (9) challenged his fate when he put a gun to his run in Russian roulette (10). level(p) though he won the bet (11) his body posture indicates he is troubled or pensive. And now he lives his x years guarantee (12). The speaker wants to clear up that the character might off cheated dying that time by dying is inevitable. Then, we take over facing us, the two central characters (13). They have immaculate their coffee, and take a shit lit a contemplative cigarette (14-15). These characters are meditative cigarette ingest is associated with worried or stressed individuals. His break lies close, but not touching hers (16). presently it is understood there is a phallic and a female character. The speaker points out that they are close but not ouching each other, describing no emotional inter-group communication surrounded by the characters. A cozy radio link is implied when the speaker refers to a darkened room (17) and continues to give explicit details of this date mouth burned mouth, flesh beat constitute on a ravaged flesh (18-19). Yellen wants to plant readers the difference between a sexual act and an intimate connection. This couple dual-lane the ultimate bonding experience between two human beings and yet they were not able to connect spiritually but only physically.The speaker gives example of this when he mentions no local habitation and no call off (20). The speaker finishes the poem with a satiric tone. He implies that everyone that peer through that nose of plate glass (5) should be dowry to be none of these (21) referring to the nighthawks. He assumes that anybody who compares themselves with these characters, using the complacent eye (22), should be successful 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 project that feeling to his readers, not taking in attachment or really understanding the effort the characters are in these situations in the branch 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 sell about less fortunate individuals.It is often said 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 ships company faces on a daily terra firma but unfortunately for the readers, Yellen focused on showing the problem but does not offer a solution. Work Cited McMahan, Elizabeth, Susan X Day, Robert Funk, Linda Coleman. Literature and the Writing Process. Ninth Ed. capital of Massachusetts Longman. 2011. Print Rafeeq O. McGiveron (1998) Yellens Nighthawks, The Explicator, 563,148-149