Manifesto of a Manifesto Wendell Berry’s “Manifesto: the Mad Farmer’s Liberation Front,” is a well-known poem of his from 1972. While Wendell’s poem presents some fine points, he forgets to elaborate on his points, and he doesn’t make a clear thesis of what he is trying to say. There are several lines that could relate to a central thesis of living happy, free with nature, and with no worries of the future, but he is frequently changing thoughts lessen the effect of his words on readers. An example of this can be seen in lines 31 and 32 from Wendell Berry’s poem states as followed. “Ask yourself: Will this satisfy a woman satisfied to bear a child? Will this disturb the sleep of a woman near to giving birth?”(Berry par. 4) People ponder if …show more content…
he is relating this to a thesis about getting back to nature, and be satisfied with what you have in life. This is as close as Wendell ever gets to a true thesis in this poem. It can’t be clearly seen due to his frequent jumping around from one topic to the next. These two lines support that theme as do the others that will be mention. As for the lines itself maybe back when he first wrote this in 1972 it seemed that simple to him. Most will agree that it isn’t as simple as that to just get back to natural. It is not that simple to relax and not be concerned. In a real world view, life tends to be very hectic and busy for people not to be a little concerned. He speaks of the fact that a woman is usually satisfied to bear a child and can still rest easy at night. How she allows herself to relax and not let smaller things bug her. Any woman you meet will tell you they do not relax that much. Even those who are satisfied to give birth worry 24/7 about her future and the future of the child. They may be happy but that doesn’t stop a mother-to-be worry. While it would be nice if this concept was plausible, but in most cases it is not. Some of what Wendell says only looks to one side of the topic and not both sides of what is happening. Some of what he says is too ideal to even be plausible in this time and age, and maybe wasn’t possible in the time he wrote this. These lines are not the only ones that follows this suit with his “assumed” thesis. There are other concepts and ideas he states that seem to be half explained as well. In line 28 and 29 from Wendell’s poem says, “Expect the end of the world. Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.” (Berry par. 4) This line relates to part of his “assumed” thesis about being satisfied with your life. He is saying you should be content and appreciate life while you have it. Don’t hold concern for the future because you don’t know when the world will end, and be happy with what you have. To be happy with what you already know and guessed and not dwell on what you don’t know. He saying keeps saying you shouldn’t need to worry, but that too ideal to be possible. It doesn’t matter if you’re a woman satisfied to give birth, or someone just trying to survive in the world. There will always be concerns. Sure it can be taken positively and with a happy go-free attitude, but worry isn’t a bad thing. He doesn’t say that it is a good thing to be a little worried sometimes. People who apprehension some usually are ready if something doesn’t happen according to plans. They tend to think ahead and prepare for something good. In life, very rarely will things ever be just perfect. It is good for mankind to learn and to seek out happiness. This worry prepares us for bad times and makes us want to prevent what bad we can. It helps to solve problems and make the future a little brighter. Earlier in the poem, however, Wendell disagrees with this idea of learning from worry. Line 18 from the second paragraph of Wendell poem states, “Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.”(Berry par. 2) Wendell is talking at this point about how if man doesn’t know about something he can’t abuse or misuse it. He does have a reasonable point because mankind has done much to harm the environment and other creatures on earth. Yet to say being ignorant is better than learning is a far overestimate of how destructive humans are. Humans are driven to learn of why things happen, and this curious nature, coupled with the worry of the unknown, leads people to test what they know. By testing the limits of what things can do, humans have learned to cure and heal many people. Mankinds have learned how to do many wonderful things to help protect and prevent dangers, just as they have done bad things with knowledge they gained. Wendell only looks to the evil that mankind has done and not looked at the beneficial factors they have and could done. Now all these lines that been reviewed could make a paper just by themselves.
They hold so many thoughts and relate well with each other. A thesis can be made from just using these lines, but these lines are not alone in this poem. Wendell includes several of other thoughts in his writing. Most of these ideas don’t fit together nicely like those above. In fact, they tend to contradict each other. One moment he is saying, “Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die,” (Berry par. 1) and it will be like a window in the mind where your future is told. But then he goes on later to say the above lines of enjoying your time and not worry of the future. Why would he tell you one thing and then go back on what he said and meant. He says your future will be known if you look for it. Yet on the other hand, he says not to worry about it and just live for a happy today. While the last part is a pleasant enough thought to have it still the opposite of each other. This confuses the reader and draws them away from the main idea. Wendell goes back and forth on these matters and several others. If he would have focused on the above lines and the thesis that is formed then he wouldn’t be so confusing on the message he is sending to readers. This doesn’t mean he did a mediocre job writing the poem and it is well known due to it being
decent. This poem is well written and plays heavily on the views of the readers, yet the undetermined thesis and unfocused subjects makes this poem seem lacking in purpose. He seems to lean to one theme, but he changes the focus to dissimilar topics too often which causes confusion in readers. Wendell Berry needs to focus on what he wants to get across to people, and that would help readers to understand and appreciate his work.
The goal is comfort and leisure, and Berry feels that this is the reason for the downfall of the agricultural culture. He believes that hard work and pride in workmanship is more important than material goods and money. This is by no means a perfect society. The people had often been violent and wasteful in the use of land of each other. Its present ills have already taken root in it.
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...nd I realize it was to renew the life of that possibility that I came here. What I am leaving is something to look forward to.” So Wendell Berry’s ever changing tone and vivid imagery help him achieve his aim, which is to point out the importance that man must slow down and be cognizant of the harmful effects of quick actions.
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