The Violence Within
by Lillian Bonar
Essay: The Violence Within
Pages: 11
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The most popular thing in our world today is not family, schooling, religion or even the newest song by Jay Z. The
thing that our world seems to be the most attracted to is violence. Throughout the years of evolution and
invention violence has become the most progressive thing in our society. But through humans’ natural nature of
misguidance we often use violence as the solution to many problems, and that may be the real problem. Whatever
it is used for good or bad violence seems to be a part of everyday life and no matter how hard we try there is no
escaping it. And that is what Gregory Djanikian puts forth in his poem “Violence”.
“Violence” is basically a poem arguing the fact that violence is unavoidable, everywhere, and contagious. In the
first stanza the poem implicates that even when you are trying to avoid violence your act of voidance has already
been overcame, and you find yourself in a violent situation. The poem continues to go on about inner peace and
states that even with the beauty of inner peace violence still crawls up your roots and eat away at the beautiful
petals of your flower of peace. In the middle of the poem it creates the fear that violence is omnipresent.
In stanza five the writer gives a real life situation of a wife coming home from being a victim of violence. This
example makes the mind wonder about your safety. This uneasiness leads to the writer’s final point that violence
can become contagious. It can become contagious due to the instinct fear of violence that may lead to one
becoming violent to protect his/her own safety. The final stanza creates a metaphor of life being a star and that
violence is the darkness behind it, hidden by the illumination of peace.
An unstoppable force can’t be st...
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