In the poem by Levine, Animals are passing from our lives, the author is using a metaphor for how people are animals. I could so relate to this having been employed by a large retail company. I was responsible for about 100 employees on the front end of the store, and paid under $10 an hour.
Weekends and evenings with my family were nonexistant, and I felt rather taken advantage of. My husband also worked a job where he was ridiculed, taken advantage of, and treated like a slave. Tape measures, metal, and the like were common weapons thrown at him. When weapons were out of reach supervisors threw words around and I do not know how my husband was able to continue dealing with the drama and buraucracy just to keep our children fed.
No doubt Levine could also relate to the common factory worker, having lived in detroit around the time of motor hey days, and having worked for GM. I find it interesting that the poem's character knows that he is being taken advantage of and sold out, and he seems to be at peace with fact that he is going down, but will not give the people who are selling him out any satisfaction at all.
Weekends and evenings with my family were nonexistant, and I felt rather taken advantage of. My husband also worked a job where he was ridiculed, taken advantage of, and treated like a slave. Tape measures, metal, and the like were common weapons thrown at him. When weapons were out of reach supervisors threw words around and I do not know how my husband was able to continue dealing with the drama and buraucracy just to keep our children fed.
No doubt Levine could also relate to the common factory worker, having lived in detroit around the time of motor hey days, and having worked for GM. I find it interesting that the poem's character knows that he is being taken advantage of and sold out, and he seems to be at peace with fact that he is going down, but will not give the people who are selling him out any satisfaction at all.
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