Roy's Life Exposed In Cosi Fan Tutte

I decided to write about Roy’s abandonment as a child by his mother through him utilizing Cosi Fan Tutte as his alternative escape; he blurs the boundaries between reality and illusion to convey his emotions through a spoken word poem he has written for his mother. Being set in the 70’s, a time of war and change, many people’s lives were distorted as the result of disadvantages and uncertainty in events caused by war and oppression such as Roy and his mother. Therefore, portray his abandonment issues and his emotional release through a wide range of stylistic and poetic techniques such as anaphora, antithesis, hyperbole, hypophora and metaphors throughout the poem.

I choose to write the poem in the first person since this point of view is giving a sense of familiarity to the character, the information the reader receives is seen only through the eyes of the narrator. So Roy exemplifies this by continually stating “I”, “me” and “we” so to link the reader (his mother) towards his true emotions and experiences as a way

Such as when Roy states that “love is what you feel when you don’t have enough emotion left to hate” Referring to his abandonment of love from his mother and how it has caused him a lingering feel of hate and resentment. Roy’s abandonment issues are significantly hidden from the audience within Cosi, but as he talks more so about his inner emotions, he slowly reveals as to what had happened. He genuinely clings on to one thing in particular of his mother, the lullaby she sang to him as a child; this saddens the reader because she, in fact, knows that she did not sing any lullabies to him. In one line of his illusion of a lullaby he sings “Mother is here by your side, I’m not leaving you alone” this is Roy’s differentiation of how he copes with reality and illusion, he indented this into his figment of imagination to deal with his uncertainty of