I am the unnoticed, the unnoticable man:
The man who sat on your right in the morning train:
The man who looked through like a windowpane:
The man who was the colour of the carriage, the colour of the mounting
Morning pipe smoke.
I am the man too busy with a living to live,
Too hurried and worried to see and smell and touch:
The man who is patient too long and obeys too much
And wishes too softly and seldom.
I am the man they call the nation's backbone,
Who am boneless - playable catgut, pliable clay:
The Man they label Little lest one day
I dare to grow.
I am the rails on which the moment passes,
The megaphone for many words and voices:
I am the graph diagram,
Composite face.
I am the led, the easily-fed,
The tool, the not-quite-fool,
The would-be-safe-and-sound,
The uncomplaining, bound,
The dust fine-ground,
Stone-for-a-statue waveworn pebble-round
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The Man in the Bowler Hat by A.S.J Tessimond
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The man in this poem feels unnoticed and simply fades into the backround.He wants his life to be more adventurous and he wants to live for a reason, not just for the sake of living.He is invisible to those around him and feels he can give more to the world around him. -
the man in this poem seems very depressed, it is like he is un-spontaneos. He does not seem to enjoy his life. He wishs to be the opposite of what he is now.
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Yes, it divulges into the world of politics, the manipulation of the public and our foolishness, it comments on how weak we have become, to be shaped at their will for any purpose they choose, this is what our lives have become and this poem is realising this, one which is exceptionally well written, with hidden meanings that change with every person's perspective
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this poem is a very creative art of a true genius. it signifies the emotion and feeling of isolation.
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