The Lesson: Philosophy And Philosophers

The Lesson: Philosophy and Philosophers; the Focus: the World. Philosophy is the love for wisdom, the fruit of rational thinking, and an attempt in understanding the theoretical structure of the fundamentals behind the world around us. Philosophers are those who live out Philosophy—they reason, skepticize, and criticize the “facts”, the “norms”, and the “beliefs” imposed on them. Because of this and their attempts to educate people on broadening their horizons and seeing the bigger picture, they are shunned, ridiculed, and crucified. Most were simply not ready, and too bigoted to accept any enlightenment except the one that society has already established in their minds. Conformity was key, and iconoclastic declarations were frowned upon.

What is illustrated in this poem, is that Monet is perceived to be suffering the consequences of old age, by implying that his extraordinary vision, is nothing but the effects of some odd form of eye defect. The doctor claims that the things that Monet sees are not exactly how they look like—that all the magnificence and splendor in all the haze, and through the mixing of broken colors are nothing but illusions—illusions that should be straightened out. Monet however, strongly dissuades the doctor’s attempt to alleviate his “disease”, expressing that the world will never look quite as good as it does in what they claim to be his defective eyes, and denies any description of the world but his

Monet’s fresh take on an old practice, is recognized as a medical problem that must be cured.
Monet, in this context, is the epitome of all philosophers; and the doctor embodies the persecutors. Philosophers are regarded as abnormal, disease-ridden and hallucinating. They are to be corrected because they don’t see the world quite like the others do.
The poem gives off the notion of disability and irregularity, as does the world we live in today. We cannot function the way we are meant to, we are all incapable of creating ourselves, and are subjected to live out the customs set out for us; that who we are should be enhanced and altered in order to conform to someone else’s image of who we should be; that our claims should be permitted by society in order to be true; and that our lives depend on how people coerce us to live it. To walk wayward from standards and archetypes, will provoke profanities and biased judgments, which will often lead to unjust punishments. Discrepancies will be considered as hindrances which will soon evolve into liabilities; instead of kinks that can bring about bonds that can be manipulated into