Everyone understands the beauty of their dreams and reality during their lifetime. There is the ambition of wanting to succeed and have fun doing what you love to do. With a deeper analysis and understanding, we find that our childhood has a deep connection with our dreams for the future. Our childhood is filled with many memories that we make, people we may become friends with, and our favorite activity or sport that we loved to play with others. Everyone wants to have a chance of wanting to become great, even most notice with our visualization and realization when it happens or has been achieved by someone else. The term weightlessness mentioned in Joshua Bennetts poem is the representation of dreams being thought of as something weightless, …show more content…
The word weight is meant to be heavy or as an object that is meant to make us struggle and give up, but ironically it is the helpful tool used by the Mark in the poem. As that also makes the other part of the word less meaningful in a way, in the poem the meaning is taking the thoughts of worry away from their life and living life as a normal person being able to have fun, but also having to sacrifice in order to have the ambition of being able to become better at their sport or hinted at in the poem basketball. In order for the author to emphasize what he is trying to say, he tends to bring back memories and imagery of moments that would have happened during his childhood. The reader relates and comprehends the importance of how having a dream would give you the weightless reality check of the hardship that comes with it. In the first stanza, “Mark dreamt of weightlessness & little else”(1), the author uses the term weightless as a crutch to describe how Mark wants to be athletic when playing basketball, but he has to work hard for it to be that …show more content…
He uses the concept of another metaphor to compare their school to a jailhouse, but he let us know that the dream of Mark was well known throughout the school. “Mark wears ankle weights everyday because that is what ballers do”(5). He uses this saying because he is trying to connect with other people who also play basketball and understands the feeling and concept of what he is telling them. The author uses the word serious, to let the reader know that basketball players take the importance of becoming better and making themselves better. Moving on to the next three stanzas, seven through nine, Mark is getting his basketball skills described while playing. “The business of giving out buckets as a kind of spiritual practice”(7-8), the sentence is important because it shows how much effort and pride that Mark takes in for his practice. Therefore we know that in order for Mark to achieve this type of dominance within his sport he has to be “serious”(6), and the author shows that within his tone of letting us know that he spiritually and physically put his all into