Barion Jesus S. May 20, 2011
BSE_ENG O.P No. 08
An Analysis of the poem “In the Dark Depths” by Jose Maria Sison
Using Marxist Approach
In the poem “in the dark depths” the writer Jose maria Sison emphasize his experience through in the jail and I observe that poem is related in his life. If you scrutinize the poem you must read the bibliography of the author and you recognize why he wrote the poem. In Jose Maria Sison circumstances in his life is you understand the word within the poem.
In the poem, in first line “the enemy wants to bury us in the dark depths of prison” it’s had a meaning to us! While I analyze this line its means to me that when the author was accusing some cases and being jailed some politicians was investigating him and the trial to him will not held in his country but in the Netherlands base in what I read in his bibliography. Some people get bury him until he talk that he is the suspect in killing three men. In myself understanding in this line when the author imprisoned he experience a tortured of the police to admit him he was the suspect.
In the next line of poem “but shining gold is mine from the dark depths of the earth” I think the truth will come out and he is not the suspect from killed. And I think the only answered on his problem is god and faith to him. When he condemning in the crime and he always said the truth behind of the crime. “And the radiant pearl is dived from the dark depths of the sea” I think it is the same in the second line. The truth will shine and the person who accusing him was regretful on what he did in to him. “We suffer but we endure and draw up gold and pearl” the writer had a means in this line. In the day when he arrest and the trial is ongoing and every people believe that he was the suspect he always wanted to them that he is not the suspect. In every trail comes to us lets us looking in the positive ways to happen what is right.
“from depths of character, formed so long in struggle” in every person that you met it will have a differences character like in what happen to Jose Maria Sison in that time he arrested no human rights that will do to him. And he was maltreating of the other person. And I understanding in every people we met, we don’t give a so much trust to them because we did not know if this people are kind and will lean our secret to them.
In the summing up of this poem I think Jose Maria Sison was arrest and no human rights in arresting him. And I think he was maltreating of other people. And I recognize he wrote the poem inside the jail. And he expressed the feeling and emotion on he what experienced in the jail and the trial of his case. Although he had a message into this poem to the people just involve in the crime that they never do. I think like the sayings “don’t judge the book, by its cover” meaning Jose Maria Sison was judging of some people even they will not know what the truth behind of that is.
In the title “in the dark depths” I think it is a place that had a lot of problems like dungeon. And I think it is our weaknesses in life that we not give the solution from it. And although when were in the dark place that lots of problem we encounter the some people who gets our self to we fall into weakness. But we do our rights to lift up in the problem that we encounter. Like Ninoy saying “people worth dying for” if we compared this line in the poem of Jose Maria Sison its having the same its focus into the problem within government and the people. And we thankful that lord lead our way in the right ways.