Practice Essay Day two

It's finally up....Sorry life got in the way.. >.< (one day behind on all practice essays)

       Desire creeps into us, makes us only want more and forget the true happiness we can get when we have self fulfillment. In the poem "Thou Blind Man's Mark" by Sir Philip Sidney we explore complex views on desire through a speaker that seems to have grown to despise desire. A speaker who feels that desire has taken over him mentally and done nothing by waste his time. "Who shouldst my mind to higher things prepare". Through diction and the flow of parts to the poem as an audience we realize that desire can basically drive a person mad.
           Since the beginning of the poem we see words like "worthless", "ruin", and "kill" giving the overall feeling of the poem a dark and angry tone. Those words help portray the big idea that the speaker really does not like desire as it has carried on. Through the line "Desire, desire ! I have too dearly bought,..." we come to realize that the author seems to be speaking from personal experience. The feelings he expresses come from the bad experience he has had with desire. The speaker tells us that even though desire took him far he still did not achieve what he wanted and therefore all the hard work he put in was nothing but a big waste of time. Comparing desire to a web with no end the speakers attitude is clearly defined as a frustration that he feels with desire.
          From the beginning to the last line, where he has said he will kill death, the speaker expresses  through each stanza the points of madness that desire has brought to him. Starting with the first couple of lines we are given a few examples as to the fact that desire makes people make stupid decisions and act upon them. We are also given to understand that the "blind man" referred to is the speaker, and those who do not realize what desire has done to them. In the middle of the poem we realize that the experience he has makes him feel that desire is nothing but a waste of time that he deeply regrets falling into. Leading us into the conclusion of the poem where the speaker wants to end desire completely and all he wants is to seek for fulfillment within himself.
           In this poem we explore the wonders of the speaker through his experience with desire. The unwillingness to continue trapped with desire but to continue on to seek for reason within himself. Through the whole poem we come to the realization as an audience that desire does nothing but drive a person mad as it starts to draw you in. Although the speaker does not say what it is he desires, the concept of desire in itself is something unwanted.