Tim Seibles Something Silver-White

“Something Silver-white” is a poem written by “Tim Seibles.” “Something Silver-white” is about perspective of how different people see things in different ways. It is explaining how people see different things in different ways. One person can see something one way and another person can see it differently. This shows that different perspectives can change the way someone thinks or reacts. The cultural and societal context for the poem is that humanity self-centeredness thinking that earth is the beginning and end of everything. It also shows humanity blindness to their own significance and their responsibility to treat one another with kindness, as we are all in this together. Metaphor, Imagery, and tone are elements within the poem that

Imagery is used in this poem to make the poem come to life so you can relate and understand it. This device has enhanced the reader to use descriptions of earth and explain the situation of how earth can be viewed in different perspectives. Tim Seibles says in is poem “someone very different could look up from a garden to see something silver-white candling faintly above a hilltop and think that dull star seems so weary near the rest.” Another line that is state is “ While we build houses and fences and thousands of churches as though this globe were just a flat blossom atop some iron stalk grown from God’s belly.” Imagery is shown a large amount through the whole poem. The first line quoted really gets you to visualize the perspective of the moon to this person is sad and makes you wonder about everyone’s perspectives and how one perspective can change the meaning of something. The second line quoted shows that humanities blindness to their own significance and their responsibility to treat one another with kindness, as we are all in this

Tone enhances the overall message of the poem and how it shows the different perspectives. How in the end we are all insignificant when it’s all said and done. The overall tone of this poem is sadness. Tim Seibles states that “So many years together you might think we would be kinder because, no matter what anybody says about anybody else, we were all born to this planet suddenly blinking under the same star and evening sky means the universe is floating.” This quote stated shows the overall message of how to treat others with kindness and we are all in this together. This effectiveness really shows the perspective of how someone can judge a person so quickly. In the end everything is insignificant when it is all said and done so it is important to stand together in the world we live in and treat others the way we want to be treated. Humanity has become too self-absorbed and not worried enough about how we impact the ones around