The
poem Anagrammer by Peter Pereira confused me because I never looked
at words in the way the poem displays them. The title fits the poem
perfectly because anagram means forming a word
or phrase formed by reordering the letters of another word.
The
poem allowed me to see things from a different perspective. The way
the poem begins threw me off. The first two stanzas begin with the
phrase “if you believe”. The words the author chooses go hand in
hand. Senator becomes treason, senators are known for political
scandals. Debit card becomes bad credit because if one overdrafts in
their bank account they can have bad credit. Listen is the same as
silent, however one must be silent if they want to listen to what the
other person is trying to say. Stained and Sainted are on two
opposite end of the spectrum but indeed go hand in hand. When someone
is need desperation, a rope ends it. That means many people be at the
end of their rope because of desperation. Admirer is also married,
when you are married you admire the one you are married to. The
words are chosen to reflect the feelings behind the words.
The
poem is focusing on words, but taking a different approach. As the
words have a double meaning the poems does as well. “Rearrange
things the right way you'd find your true life”.Everything in life
is not set in stone. Sometimes in life rearrangements must be made in
order for other things to fall into place. The way life is lived
sometimes one is on the wrong path and is not making the wisest
decisions. However, something can happen that allows them to take a
step back and reevaluate the way they have been living. The
reevaluations causing a change and a re-arrangement of their life.
Sometimes we all need a re-arrangement in our lives at one point or
another to either see what we have been missing or to find what we
have been missing.
I
had questions of how and why the author chose the specific words he
did. The meaning he had for each phrase and how he selected the poem
to flow and represent such meaning hidden between each line. Each
stanza shows a hidden message displayed within it.
Krizia, I'm glad I read this post because I honestly didn't really understand the point of this poem the first time I read it. Maybe I should have looked up what the word 'Annagramer' meant. That was a given. Thanks for breaking it down a bit for me. I enjoyed reading this!
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