The Boy In The Bubble Poem Analysis

The world is a weird place and getting weirder all the time. In Paul Simon’s “The Boy in the Bubble” which was released in 1987. Simon expresses the craziness of what the world has become. This poem’s unifying theme is alienation which is being created by rapid changes, a lack of understanding of the world, and fragmentation and imbalance in life. Through the things that have been there forever mixed with the new things that have appeared very suddenly. If it is “The bomb in the baby carriage,” “The days of lasers in the jungle” there is a weird feeling to these things. The first stanza is mainly focused on the PLO or the Palestinian Liberation Organization in 1986. The scene in this stanza is in Israel. There are soldiers from the Israeli army patrolling road. A terrorist has left a baby stroller that has a bomb hooked up to a radio timer. There is an allusion to Israel here, and there is alliteration in the words bright and light. The following quotation uses imagery to describe what happens next: “There was a bright light a shattering of shop windows” this leads to thoughts

“These are the days of lasers in the days of lasers in the jungle” this line is leaning towards the idea of alienation. When most people think of the jungle, a natural area untouched by man is what is thought of. In this instance, there is a technology made by man has invaded this idea of land untouched by man. “A loose affiliation of millionaires and billionaires and baby.” The people in the world from billionaires, to millionaires, and baby’s somehow come together and create a society. To go into more detail, there is a baby, that baby needs diapers, so they go to Target. After buying those diapers Target makes some profit, in this case, the millionaires. The people in the end, making the most profit are the billionaires that make these products like diapers. In the end is a big ring of the economy and the present social