Levi Kinsel: Poem Analysis

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On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper made the first phone call in New Jersey to the headquarters of Bell Labs; we subtracted the year 1973 from the current year 2014, then we get 41 years apart from the first phone to our current timeline. You might be asking yourself (Why is math involved in this? The title says Levi Kinsel, but he starts up with the time gap of the first phone call and now. Is he doing his math homework? Is this essay really about Levi Kinsel?) However, this essay is about Levi Kinsel, a naval officer because in World War 2, he was writing and sending letters to his dear wife Rosa in 1938-1946 without an iPhone 6 nor Samsung Galaxy s5; however, Levi and Rosa needed to wait for the letters to arrival for a day, a month, or maybe …show more content…

“I am writing this in a hurry, I should be doing some paper work that I have let pile up on me, and also want to get in the mail to-day”(Kinsel, letter: 6/29/1945, n.s.s Lake Champlain). Due to his work, Kinsel developed a busy personality that he is forced to write his letter quickly in order to get back working on a pile of paper works that he was assigned to do. “I dont like the way you are always talking about me doing so much work i believe that is all you want me to come home for” (Kinsel, letter: 11/2/1945, U.S.S. Lake Champlain). Even Rosa believed Levi is becoming a busy person because usually people can tell if someone is changing even if they denied it like …show more content…

“Well baby I wish you were here now” (Kinsel, letter: 1/29/1943, Alameda; California). This quote directly revealed that being a naval officer created a wishing feeling for many officers including Levi Kinsel in his case Rosa being with him right now. “It is soon going to be written here again and I dont like to think of spending another one here. I don't have much of an idea as to how to get off this ship as I have been just as nasty to these officers as I dared hoping to get a bum report sent in but I have seen the last two and they were both good” (Kinsel, letter: 8-28-1945, New York). Due to his time as naval officer on a ship, the atmosphere of departing from the ship to reunite with Rosa builds

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