What Am I Doing Here?

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Fleur-de-lis markings in the intersection of 10th and Main streets received a makeover in May. The street art was part of a community installation first painted in Upper Main Street in 2015. (Photo: Dave Bangert) In the last three lines, the speaker declares that he is not going to accept the “universal alibi”. This is likely a reference to humanity’s habit of attributing their actions to a larger human sense of being. It is related to saying something like, “I’m only human, I can’t help it”. Stanza Two

Alliteration is another technique a reader should look for in ‘What I’m Doing Here.’It occurs when words are used in succession, or at least appear close together, and begin with the same letter. A good example is line three of the second stanza with the words “mirrors” and “movies”. Anaphora is perhaps the most obvious technique at work in this poem. It is the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of multiple lines, usually in succession. In the first stanza, eight of the fourteen lines begin with “I” and of those eight, two begin with “I do not know if the…” Then, in the second stanza, “like” begins three of the seven lines. Analysis of What I’m Doing Here Stanza One Lines 1-6 One, you wake up one morning and find yourself in a job you hate, a relationship you don’t want to be in, or a life that has little resemblance to the one you had imagined. You might be feeling low, filled with frustration, shame, or regret. This is not where you wanted to be at this time in your life…it’s not the life you wanted to live. Then, with a little soul-searching under your belt, it’s time to move on to step 3. Step 3: What Are Your Options? The next lines continue the same way of thinking. He adds that he “would have done the same things / even if there were no death”. Through these lines, he states that the choice he made would’ve been made all the same even if he thought he wasn’t going to die. This alludes to the speaker’s somewhat nihilistic perspective on life. He was acting because he knew that he’d eventually die, and nothing mattered in the end. But, he knows that even if he wasn’t going to die, he’d still do the same things.Self-awareness and a little soul searching is critical for success – especially when you’re trying to figure out what you’re doing with your life. Here’s the process and the questions I walked through with Sabine and Max. Following these will help you make progress towards identifying what you’re doing with your life too: Step 1: What Do You Want?

Cohen makes use of half or slant rhymes in these endings as well. Lines six, seven, eight, and twelve are all half-rhymes due to their similarity in consonant endings. There are also other examples of consonance, or the repetition of consonant sounds, and assonance, or the repetition of vowel sounds, in the text. For example, the words “comfort” and “torture” in lines five and six make use of the same “o” and “r” sounds. The same can be said about the vowel sounds in “cloud” and “without” in line seven.

Since then, I’ve spent the past few weeks building a prototype collection of long reads and short takes you can expect here. Breaking some news . Coverage of Lafayette, West Lafayette and Tippecanoe County government action that’s more than meat-and-potatoes. Changes coming for schools . Drama with public officials (hello, Wabash Township) . Context behind decisions on a Purdue campus that’s growing nonstop . A look at cultural landmarks in Greater Lafayette and on campus . A Q&A or two with interesting people and how they shape this town . And just good stories, like the one about a retiring West Lafayette garbageman they call the legendary Big B. Having said all that negative about Chatwin, I did really like this book! I read his Bio before I read any of his other books and this work with it's vast array of ecclectic travels and subjects does an awesome job of displaying the interests and adventures of his short life.

Okay, so you have your list of options and possibilities. Now it’s time to narrow it down and explore those options in a little more depth. Even though we can’t control many things that happen in life, we can make an effort to manage what we can and be proactive instead of just letting life happen to us. Proactive versus Reactive La vita di Donald Evans, per caso o di proposito, fu breve, circolare e simmetrica; la sua unica ossessione, quella di dipingere francobolli. Li dipinse nel corso di due periodi di cinque anni ciascuno: dai 10 ai 15 anni, quando era uno scolaro introverso, e poi da adulto, dai 26 anni ai 31. Il fatto che fosse convinto di aver "raggiunto il massimo" a 16 o 17 anni; che intorno ai 30 avesse rivissuto la propria infanzia; che vi siano buoni motivi per ritenere che il catalogo, ai suoi occhi, fosse ormai completo; che, dopo aver lavorato sulle zone tropicali del suo mondo, dipingesse i francobolli di una contrada polare, imprigionata dai ghiacci, quando lui stesso fu divorato dal fuoco, tutto ciò va a rafforzare l'impressione della simmetria." If you’re asking “What am I doing with my life?” you’re clearly not happy where you are. You know you want something else. But what is that “something”? This question allows you to explore your potential options. String them together, taken over the course of days, weeks and months, and you’ll see contours emerge in the landscape of Lafayette, West Lafayette, Tippecanoe County and Purdue.

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Now, if you’re serious about moving forward, it’s time to take the time and put in the effort and answer the questions above. Then, like Sabine and Max, be willing to take action, even if you’re not exactly sure how it’s going to play out. A fantastic way to do this is to envision your life “as if” you were in that new role/situation/relationship. Through these comparisons, the speaker is explaining to the reader that no matter the precedent set by the wider population, he is responsible for his own actions. He does not feel as though he should blame the moral state of humankind for his own choices.

Lines five and six make this way of looking at his own life all the clearer. He says that living in an “atmosphere of torture” does not excuse the fact that he has “tortured”. The speaker is unable to take comfort in the fact that other people have tortured as well. It doesn’t make any difference. Lines 7-14He also says that living in an “ atmosphere of torture” does not excuse the fact that he has “tortured”. The speaker is unable to take comfort in the fact that other people have tortured as well. He also says that he does not blame the hateful nature of the world for his own hate. He says that “without the mushroom cloud” he “still…would have hated”. The next lines continue the same way of thinking. The poem begins with the speaker stating that there are a few things he doesn’t know about the world. First, that he doesn’t “know if the world has lied”. But, he does know that he has. Second, that he doesn’t “know if the world has conspired against love”. But again, he has.