Lit Analysis

Lit Analysis

Few college minds,
hope of our future,
are truly awake at this hour-
too engulfed in last night's
party or tomorrow's exam
to heed Chaucer's counsel.
the Tweed Man, conversely, thrives
on his cream and artificial sunrise.
he divulges to us, in big words, secrets
he's wanted to tell of since he
was a boy: how Conrad showed
him mankind as it is. How
Hemingway defined for him a
generation in five-word
sentences. how Whitman carried
him up to the stars and
made him aware, before MLA
documentation caught him
and sent him back to bed.