Rhyming words, rhythmic actions, alliterative tone, and music in the mind's eye are all components of some descriptions of beautiful poetry. When the reader can imagine the setting or the scenario being described by the poet then the poet has made his or her mark by employing those components in the effort to transcend events the reader may not be familiar with. Many times the most difficult lyrics to comprehend, when it comes to poetic justice, are words strung together to describe an event or happening so far removed from the reader's experience that to conjure up the required images takes the most powerful words in the English language.
             So it must seem that Getting Hip to the Lights-Out Way is one such work. The author of this work evoked images that leave the reader with a disturbing feeling of having just read an event that will stay with the reader for quite some time. The image of poking one's eyes out to 'get hip to the lights out way' is one that likely does not sit comfortably with most individuals.
             Comparing the eyes out scenario to one written about the deaf might seem on the same wave length but as Oliver Sacks tells the story of deaf students fighting for a new president of their school a completely different tone is conveyed. Sacks conveys a scene in the "Protest at Gallaudet" that is a lot different than putting one's eyes out. Instead of a macabre scene of an axe to the eye, Sacks writes 'unrest, uncertainty and hope have been brewing (pg 236). The reader could surmise that the desperation of hope written about in "Getting Hip" is unlike the scenario of hope found in "Protest".
             Both stories make a case for what is taking place. Getting Hip makes a case for taking extreme measures in order to deal with life with statements such as; "whole thing gets better when the world gets black". It is a statement of de...