Working Together Vs. Everything is Going to be Alright

The poetry we see today is just words. We rarely take the time to look and evaluate what we see everyday. Things seem too obvious to be mentioned, but that is what poetry does. It creates emotions and ideas and action that words in an essay cannot. In Working Together the obvious is stated and it shows the contradiction in everyday life and how it works; something so obvious but is never mentioned. In Everything is Going to be Alright it shows the world in one dimension as if everything everywhere is always going to be alright; something stated too much. 

The balance between creating a piece of poetry that "moves" people and creating a piece of paper that someone reads for corrections is delicately mentioned in Working Together. "Working together in common cause to produce the miraculous," states that the things we see everyday and take no notice of work together to create something we cherish. We cherish the planes we fly on, we cherish the clothes we wear, we cherish the water we drink. Yet we don't see the contradicttion. We don't see the massive body floating in the sky, we don't see the clothes we use to hide ourselves, we don't see the water we give up to stay alive. Everything is the opposite of itself. 

We see life as something that is black or white. Yes or no. Wrong or right. Credit or no credit. Once we get involved with the details, it all falls apart. Everything is Going to be Alright touches on the idea of how even when we focus too much on the details, there is a bigger picture involved. "There will be dying, there will be dying, but there is no need to get into that," there is no need to focus on the one aspect that makes us fall apart. There are so many other things in life that contribute to the beauty we see everyday that keeps us going. We need to focus on what keeps us together rather than what makes us fall part. 

Working Together and Everything is Going to be Alright are two poetic pieces that make readers optimistic. "The sun rises in spite of everything," "So may we in this life trust," give he impression of a future that keeps going. Trust the present to lead the future. Although Everything is Going to be Alright  has an insular point of view whereas Working Together has different point of views of ordinary occurrences, the two poems coincide. We take advantage of what we see and sometimes lose the concept of trust. The constant heart beat of the poems from negative to positive helps readers establish a connection between what poetry is and how it relates to what we are; things that seem impossible in the present but persist for the future.