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Seeing the Light

Many times, the sensuality of life is lost because of technology. It seems that as a result of technology, life is seen differently through human eyes. Many times visions of life and its beauties are altered by technology and a shadow is placed upon all things through this vision. Often times, the only way to escape these views is to be without technology and its influences. The speaker in Raymond Carver’s poem, “The Window”, becomes aware of this fact when he is without electricity and realizes for the first time the beauties of nature.Initially, Carver’s title, “The Window”, indicates that the poem will be about some sort of window and the way this window may look. After reading the poem, however, one sees that this is not so. In the poem, the speaker actually gives an account of the effect a simple blackout has on him as he looks out of a window. The speaker sees the trees differently, the speaker sees the countryside differently, and the speaker as a result begins to analyze himself differently.Carver’s poem is especially effective because of the point of view through which he presents it. “The Window” is brought to its readers through first person point of view. This use of the first person point of view allows Carver to step back from the story and have less of an interpretive influence. What emerges is the importance of individual perception. Had Carver presented the poem from a third person point of view, it would seem that he was viewing the scenes from the outside and the feelings from the narrator would have been less effective as those coming directly from the speaker. In “The Window”, the speaker tells the reader exactly what he feels when the electricity is no longer there to blind him. The speaker reveals his personal feelings about what technology does to a picture and how much more beautiful things seem when there is nothing there to dimini...

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