Your state of mind while going through life is a strange thing; always changing based on the behavior of the people you associate yourself with. Usually, when people think about how they acted in the past, they find their decisions or actions a bit embarrassing. The speaker of poem George Bilgere seems to capture this way of thinking while also being thoughtful or even philosophical. The poem revolves around the thoughts of what appears to be a dazed early adult looking back on her previous escapades with her friends and, almost accidentally, tapping into a well of self-awareness that flourishes for a moment before fading away. George Bilgere, in his poem “Stupid”, uses imagery, colloquial language, and metaphor to illustrate the futility …show more content…
The speaker, after the first conversation, begins thinking about “what it would be like to be permanently stupid,” (Bilgere 8-9). This is not an average thought to go through the mind of a dazed girl thinking about how messed up her life can be, and we see this through the change of tone. There is a massive tone shift from the first stanza to the second. No longer does it feel like listening to a lost mind, but a self-aware and intelligent mind. The language used is no longer colloquial but formal, with a near philosophical way of speaking. She is still thinking of her past yet in a completely different manner, using imagery like, “to go through life at that altitude, just clearing the rooftops and TV aerials, heading for the mountains….” (Bilgere 10-13). As you can see by this line she knows that there is no good end for a lifestyle like she is living. She sees that she is very low to the ground and the thought of going straight toward the mountains must be quite terrifying. On the other hand, the fact that she even sees the mountains coming up may be enough for her to be able to change her lifestyle and move up enough to clear them. She knows that in order for her to succeed in life, she has to do something about her current