Gabrielle Alwi

March 17, 2014

Eng 1121

Poem Essay

Meanings of Tearing

You don’t find yourself in happy times; you find them in tough times. Everyone has their moments in life where things situations can’t be hidden and instead is exposed. Sometimes we can’t hide our emotions and we break into tears. In the poem “ I Ask My Mother to Sing,” the young girl broke into cried when both her mother and grandmother were next to her. She was having flashback of the days when her father was around with the family too. Tears can have different meanings to it like tears of joy, and tears of sadness.

In the poem, the young girl was with her family and we all know being with family is something special. When we have family with us, we feel complete. Some might have a family of two or even a family of 10; the bond of a family cannot be copied. When we are with family, the joy of us being with them sometimes cannot be held back and we burst into tears of joy.

The things we did in the past become memories and they can be very special. The young girl remembers the time when her father was with them and would play his instruments while her mother would sing. We all have memories and they can be very special. Memories can make people happy or it can make people sad. The memories we cherish bring tears into our eyes.

This poem also shows the audience some sad and depressing situations. Not all the time that our tears are full of happiness. We go through tough times and it hurts us. Maybe it could be our friends, school or family that can hurt us and make us cry. We all have a weakness or a soft side. People burst into tears because they cannot not hold it and need to let it out.

Tearing up is an expression we all do in our life. A tear of sadness is a sensitive to some people because we all express ourselves differently. Sometimes we get disappointed from out friends or family and it will hurt us. Not everything will go our way and it will build up and at one point, we will not hold back and we just have to let it out.

We all tear in our life and some might do it more than others. We go through different moods in life and we don’t know what will happen. Every moment is different and with that in mind, we need to cherish every second of it. Some of us express ourselves differently. Each tear drop represents a memory we cherish or a moment that is hurting us.