THE STATUE

I need to read for many times to take a conclusion about what ‘THE STATUE’ by ARTHUR GREGOR talks about. I think this poem is not easy because it was not simply written. ‘The Statue’ reflects the poet’s mind as well. According to me a poem that makes the reader think, think, and think again is a good one because there’s something undecidable inside and need an extra attention to reveal it. Just like the title ‘The Statue’ itself, it’s something undecidable already. But, I fully understand now what this poem talks about.

After taking a conclusion about what this poem talks about, I get such a deep impression. This poem seems like me, someone who is living just like a statue; absurd (baroque can be meant as absurd). This ‘statue’ person can see much kind of things, the sadness, the happiness of people around them, but they can’t do anything. It’s like the characteristic of statue which is built using stone, they only can observe with the ‘eye stone’ without any act to help people around them.

This poetry is good enough because I can take myself as the part of it. Just like me, I’ve tried to destroy these statue characteristics inside me which is so absurd, I can’t even tell how could I have this kind of characteristics, and always wondering alone. With this ‘statue’ along with me, just like the character ‘a boy’ in this poem, he sees the material such as strict rows of trees, columns, fountains, and pavilions as the royal ease of the world. We (the boy and I) are such naïve ‘statue’.

Remembering I’ve tried to destroy this ‘statue-ness’ in myself for years, I’ve also tried to rid myself of rigid. But I have failed. I see the real world when someone is sad, feels the pain, and live unhappy (2^nd and 3^rd stanzas), but I just can do nothing. I just can see them without any act. How miserable I am. It happens continuously and I just can see with this ‘eye stone’, observe of what is meant to die.

People with this ‘statue’ inside them feel sorry towards others because they see a lot and zero act. I believe many of us are part of this bunch of people.