The Cockroach

The poem The forget me drug, scripted by Kevin Halligan, is a meaningful and inte differenceing poem. As a Buddhist convert, the poet has use the journey of the cockroach to describe many aspects of benevolent life. Initially, Halligan presents human life as joyful and excited in the puerility . A good illustration of this when Halligan uses the phrases skirting a ball of dust, satisfied and start to pace to present it. As we all know, the cockroach represent humanity and his journey is an extended metaphor for human life.So from that point of view, we should understand that when the cockroach start to pace is when the human life starts. In childishness, we can get hold of fun by do meaningless things with no specific goal just homogeneous the cockroach skirt s a ball of dust and satisfy with that game. Children get under ones skin their parental protection and they have goose egg to worry ab out(p). Life was so easy, innocent and relaxed at that period of life. For the rest of the poem which also represents the rest of the life time we cannot see other words that use to describe the positive feelings of the cockroach.So maybe for Halligan, childhood was the most unaware stage of the entire human life. And through the poem, the readers can feel that this stage was short-lived. Secondly, Halligan shows that by and by childhood, life only remain with many dramas and tough decision. For example, the poet describe that on the cockroachs journey, he jog s in crooked ring, and scratch his wing as hes a victim of a mild attack. This show that sometimes in their life, humans lose their goal, at sea their direction or met a drama that they dont know what to do next only when circling the rusty table just like the cockroach.And a result of the loss of direction, the cockroach scratch es his wings, this is similar with how drama leave us with a bad mental health. Yet in life, we have to face a lot of drama and different kind of it. We can have drama like br oken heart, the loss of a relative, failure in career Day after day, we cannot get unfreeze of the depression it cause and the restlessness that worsened over time. Life after childhood continues scarce with more problems, and we cannot go through it easily . Human can get lost and they cannot get out of their own dramas . The persona now portrays human life as difficult and full of crises.