Beautiful Disaster

Poetic language is used for both horrific and beautiful things. O’Brien used very poetic language when he described Rat killing the baby water buffalo. Using poetic language to describe horrific things makes the scenes all the more heart wrenching. By using poetry the emotions in a situation are brought out more fully. Poetry is beautiful, cannibalism comes from the darkness within a person. Somehow when these two collide emotions are felt. The beautiful language makes the scenes all the more intense. At the same time it almost makes it seem dreamlike or nightmarish. Which is what the boy and father are living in a nightmare. The world is ash. Of the few people left on the earth most of turned into creatures from nightmares. The little boy knows nothing of a real world filled with beauty. The only beauty he sees is the fire in him and his father. The poetic language is also used to portray the fact that no matter how dark things are there is still beauty and love to be found. In The Road this beauty and love is found between the boy and his father. There is nothing more beautiful than a father sacrificing himself for his sons own life.