The Cockroach

The poem The circle, written by Kevin Halligan, is a meaningful and inte correspondenceing poem. As a Buddhist convert, the poet has use the journey of the cockroach to expound many aspects of human liveness. Initially, Halligan turn overs human life as rapturous and excited in the childhood . A good illustration of this when Halligan uses the phrases sidestep a ball of dust, satisfied and start to rate to present it. As we all know, the cockroach represent humanity and his journey is an extended metaphor for human life.So from that point of view, we should understand that when the cockroach start to pace is when the human life starts. In childhood, we can define fun by do meaningless things with no specific goal scarcely kindred the cockroach skirt s a ball of dust and satisfy with that game. Children have their parental protection and they have nothing to worry about. Life was so easy, innocent and relaxed at that period of life. For the rest of the poem which also r epresents the rest of the life time we cannot see other words that use to describe the positive feelings of the cockroach.So maybe for Halligan, childhood was the most unaware stage of the entire human life. And through the poem, the readers can feel that this stage was short-lived. Secondly, Halligan shows that afterwards childhood, life only remain with many playing periods and tough decision. For example, the poet describe that on the cockroachs journey, he jog s in crooked ring, and brand his move as hes a victim of a mild attack. This show that sometimes in their life, humans bear their goal, lost their direction or met a drama that they dont know what to do next but circling the rusty table just like the cockroach.And a result of the loss of direction, the cockroach scratch es his wings, this is similar with how drama leave us with a bad kind health. Yet in life, we have to face a lot of drama and different kind of it. We can have drama like gloomy heart, the loss of a relative, failure in career Day after day, we cannot get rid of the depression it cause and the restlessness that worsened over time. Life after childhood continues but with more problems, and we cannot go through it easily . Human can get lost and they cannot get out of their own dramas . The persona now portrays human life as difficult and full of crises.