Thomas Sahl Christensen
English
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2/11 2012
Boredom
The poem is written by Jack Prelutsky
The poem is about boredom. A person tells us that his bored, and what he imagine in his thoughts. He uses
several metaphors in the poem like “A dragon blowing smoke rings”. The question is “are you really bored
when you can use your fantasy to imagine several things like a dragon? I would say it’s ironic, to say that
you are bored, when you see a dragon. The metaphors he use in the poem is more opposite of boredom.
I think that the poem is funny and boring on same time. It’s funny because of the ironic that he tell he’s
bored while he imagine things like “giants riding on rhinos”. Giants riding on rhinos is more in a “play
category”, so it seems like he is about to get out of the boring mindset. He uses his fantasy to get out of
the boredom. The poem is boring too, there’s a lot of negativity , I would say it demonstrate boredom,
maybe it shows us a picture of the whole life, everybody gets bored sometimes and then you use your
fantasy or your mind to get out of the boredom.
Boredom is a very popular feeling and I don’t think you can prevent boredom, because it’s impossible for
the world to develop all the time. The normal reason why people get bored is that people are living the
same routine every day, they do the same activities ever y day, in the end it will get boring. The same as
exercise, if you swim all the time you will lose the motivation, you’ll get bored of it, and to prevent it, you
should develop yourself every day you should get new interests.
I don’t think I have overcome boredom, and as I said I don’t think it’s possible. Of course I try, sometimes
it’s harder to overcome boredom then it sounds. Normally I try to find something else I could do without
getting bored, but it doesn’t work every time, it also depends about your interests, sometimes it depends
on the day or your age. If you are young I think you would prefer an action movie, instead of an old boring
documentary, but that’s only my thoughts.
I’ve experienced boredom like an annoying thing. It’s annoying to get bored, you don’t know what to do
just staring into the air while you wonder what’s your interest on that particular day. Everything gets
boring, even rollercoaster parks or water parks, even the funniest thing in the world can get boring, you
just have to deal with it enough times.
Sometimes you think an activity is boring without even tried it yet. That would probably help to overcome
the worst thing in the world “boredom”, to develop yourself, develop your interests you develop your
horizon of activities, but I think that it’s necessary to get bored sometimes, if you want to be able to
develop your horizon.
You also need to get bored sometimes because you need rest, the life can’t just be a rollercoaster that
continue for eternity.
Written by Thomas Sahl Christensen
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