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Carrie Fountain Experience Essay

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When a person thinks back to what they have wanted in life they realize that what they had wanted has changed. One reason why “wants” change throughout the course of a person’s life is due to experience. The poem Experience by Carrie Fountain reminisces on a night where Carrie wants to experience being one of the only girls in the desert with the boys only to realize it is not what she desired so she wonders how can she follow the right “wants”. Based on the poem Fountain believes that a person should experience their desires to know if they truly hunger for it, when a person gets what they want it sometimes disappoints, and the need they experience teaches them. A person should experience their desire to truly understand if that is what they …show more content…

As the poem writer reminisces she states “I wanted so badly that night/ to believe violence was a little bell you could ring/ and get what you wanted” (9-11). The verse explains to the reader that what she thought would be easy being the center of attention was not as easy as she thought it would be, instead she saw violence first hand. In the verse “It often occurred to me then that if only/ we could get quiet enough, we’d hear/ the universe calling back to us, telling us/ what to do next” (26-29). This is where the author knows what she thought she wanted is not really what she desired and wishes were simple to attain with guidance being available to guide her. In the poem Carrie believes that when a person experiences the need they will learn something from the experience. When the author talks about the past she states “Thank god time erases everything/ in this steady impeccable way” (17-18). When the author writes those lines she doesn’t mean time erases everything she meant that as time goes by the experiences you go thru changes the persons’ goals making it eraser for them to “want” something different. In the poem Carrie believes that a person should experience their desires to know if they truly hunger for it. When a person gets what they want it sometime disappoint giving them a lesson thru the experience. The “want” in the poem is a metaphor for the goal the author had in her life.

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