The Man Into Your Yard You Should Not Hit Your Ball Poem Analysis

“The Man Into Whose Yard You Should Not Hit Your Ball,” Serves as a powerful representation of the nature and impacts of addiction on those close to and even peripheral to the addict. Lux uses the characters states and actions to show this. The narrative of this poem tells how a man mows his yard despite the season, the events happening, or what’s in his yard. The tone that overwhelms this poem compares the mans need to cut his grass is to addiction and the consequences that are a cause of it. The wife is used to show in a clear way how addiction can affect others. She is described as a “shoebox tissue,” which is easily shown as a metaphor for being a sad person. Although the word shoebox is used to show how she hides her sadness, and doesn’t express her emotion openly. Because when people put items in shoeboxes they are usually trying to hide it and make it only accessible to themselves. The narrator then calls the wife a cipher which is a person or thing of no importance. She is called this because her husband’s neglect has made her feel

He paints the addict as being a mean and uncaring person. He describes him in this way because the narrator always saw him as the man who would mow over our baseballs in his yard and not care. This is how addicts behave, they consume themselves in their addiction and anyone close or nearby become sucked in and feel a negative affect from them. The narrator describes the man’s emotion as he mows over sticks and stones as being happy “no matter what the manual said.” What the narrator is doing is making a comparison in how addicts feel nothing but pleasure while they are on their substance, but externally their body is succumbing to the abuse of these substances. Just like how the man feels joy while riding over the foreign objects, his mower is enduring nicks and bumps of its rider’s careless