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According to the author of “The End of Science Fiction”, Lisel Mueller, our creative innovations have come to a halt. This is a four stanza, free verse poem describing how the human race has advanced some much, so fast, that we have become dull and interesting. Mueller uses parallelism, metaphors,allusions, and imagery to help emphasize her point on how it is important for the human race to become more creative to make the world even better.
In these first two stanzas, Mueller uses parallelism by repeating the words “We are”. This use of parallelism refers to the human race as a whole. In the first stanza, the reader is enlightened on how the human race has advanced so much that “This is not fantasy, this is our life.” (1. 1) These dreams the
world has had are no longer fantasies, they have become reality. The world's technology has advanced tremendously to the point we have “invaded the moon” (1. 3) and have invented machines called computers that can contain more knowledge than the human brain. “We are the gods who can unmake the world in seven days.” (1. 5) Mueller uses this metaphor to state that we have advanced so much that we can destroy the world with the creations we have made throughout the years. In the second stanza, Mueller explains how; although, the new creations that have come have been great, we have moved too fast that now we are at a halt. “Both hands are stopped at noon.” (2. 7) With the invention of medicine, lives have been lengthened. “ We are beginning to live forever,” (2. 8) and because of this we are stuck in this stand-still, that we are now a complacent, isolated, and not as creative society. In the last two stanzas, Mueller uses more parallelism by repeating the word “Invent”. By repeating this word, the author stressing how important it is to her that we need to invent something new. Most of stanza 3, Mueller uses a lot of allusion from biblical stories to reiterate how far and how fast we have advanced in technology. She refers to Adam and Eve by stating that we need to “invent a man and a woman naked in a garden,” (3. 14) Another biblical reference Mueller makes is to Jesus, “Invent a child that will save the world,” These biblical allusions make a statement on how we have exhausted our imagination to the point we science fiction is coming to an end. In the fourth stanza, Mueller uses imagery to help explain how we need to invent, or improve, new inventions. Her statement, “ Invent us as we were before our bodies glittered and we stopped bleeding:” (4. 25) describing how we basically made ourselves immortal, compared to how it used to be in the past. She goes on giving examples on what we have and can do, but we don’t seem to be moving forward in any way. At the end of stanza 4, Mueller emphasized once more that she thinks we need to invent something new. It may be hard, “as a child’s first steps across a room.” but we need to make this world more entertaining and excited like it used to be. Mueller believes our world’s imagination is diminishing and that we need improvement in our inventions. by her use of diction, Mueller is able to explain how we have moved so fast through the the years that we have come to a stand-still and how important she thinks it is that we need to come up with something new to make our world less boring and more exciting.
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I wonder why sometimes people are afraid of their intelligence. Don’t imagine your life without technology because the progression of technology will never stop, and it will continue to benefit us. As technology advances, our society is able to advance also. Instead of tangle with how technology causes laziness or distracts us from what is important, it would better to think about how to use technology to make our life better.