Still going to do it anyway

Well, I have to say that when I work up this morning and was going through the homework that I needed to get done. I almost screamed when I remembered that HEY IT'S MONDAY AND YOUR BLOG WAS DUE YESTERDAY!!!! So yeah, I take full responsibility. Put me in handcuffs and take me to the procrastination police. But they won't win! I will do one anyway, for my own personal benefit. So, ha, take that you stupid self-conscious that waits till the last minute! You haven't (completely) beaten me.

Mr. Fear by Lawrence Raab

I think the most interesting part of this poem is that the speaker seems to have come to terms with the fact that Fear is coming. He just accepts that it's going to happen and says, "what are you going to give me?" It is also interesting that the fear comes in the speaker's dreams. To me this shows that dreams are the place where people are the most vulnerable to themselves. According to the poem, dreams are where all of those fears that the speaker has been holding up are made known to him. I think that's why the speaker is excited to see those dreams. Because he wants to be able to know what things Mr. Fear has been storing up so that the speaker can purge himself, or at least fight those fears. To me, that would make the theme be something about facing one's fears head on so that they can be overcome. As for any antecedent scenario, I think it would only be the dreams and the life that the speaker has lived before he came to this field where he is sleeping and then dreaming.

I found this poem to be very uplifting and encouraging even though it is about something that is obviously scary. I mean what isn't positive about knowing that if you don't deny your fears and face them head-on, you will be able to defeat them.