Theme Of Deer Hit 'And The Rose That Grew From The Concrete'

There are two types of people in this world, those who hold onto the memories of the past and those who want to focus on the future. These two poems, “Deer Hit” by Jon Loomis and “ The Rose that grew from the Concrete” by Tupac Shakur, highlight the two different views many people have when dealing with hardships. While both poems illustrate growing up and how to deal with life’s difficulties, each poem focusses their themes on different aspects that come with human suffering. The imagery a story provides can really set the tone for the entire poem and help with the delivery of the main theme. In the poem Deer Hit, when the scene opens up with a drunk teenage driver the audience can already feel a sense of dread and tension within the poem. The theme of

Loomis includes his vivid imagery of the horrible accident in order to illuminate the chaos that comes with making a carless mistake. “You don’t see the deer till they turn their heads—road full of eyeballs, small moons glowing. You crank the wheel, stamp both feet on the brake, skid and jolt into the ditch. Glitter and crunch of broken glass in your lap, deer hair drifting like dust. Your chin and shirt are soaked—one eye half-obscured by the cocked bridge of your nose” depicts a sense of fear and hopelessness throughout the rest of them poem (lines 1-12). The author began with such a vivid description to create the tone through the rest of his poem, a tone of fear and regret. Nonetheless it only gets more intese as the poem continues to describe the teenagers desperate actions to try and get rid of his problems. One sees towards the end Jon Loomis’s idea that teenagers are irresponsible and do not want to deal with their own mistakes. In lines 40 through 49 when the teenager drives back home, he immediately goes to his father in hopes that he will “fix” the deer or to make is beautiful again, showing the