The Patch Alex Kurn Analysis

The poem “The Patch” by Alex Kurn explores a man’s escape of reality through an object. The theme is imagination and inspiration through this one simple object. Instead of this object hindering the man’s sight to see the everyday it gives sanctuary through a simple patch creating his own imaginary world and a different personality.
The poem started off with Dr. Hazelnut prescribing a man a patch for two weeks.
This patch given to the man has closed his bad eye, but opens up a new clearer eye which is his imagination. This patch to normal people just blocks eyesight, but for this particular man it gave him new eyesight where it should be dark. The imagination begins by opening up a fuzzy planet and the man begins to play into a fantasy. The man had a feeling of excitement because he probably has never had this happen until now. The patch brings the man a new found identity that he embraces by playing the part. The man seems to become a child and begins to play pretend and to play pretend he needed some props. Along with patch it also demanded; a hat, silver hook, parrot, gold hook, tattoos, etc. Imagine a grown man given a simple to help heal a bad eye but turns it into something out of the ordinary it could bring an uncomfortable feeling. His wife thinks maybe he is going through

a mid-life crisis because a man should not be playing dress up. Doing a particular thing may be strange to others but

He embodies a pirate and he is content with this because he cancels his shrink and stop taking his Prozac that you can conclude his wife set-up for him to do.

In the beginning of the poem Dr. Hazelnut prescribe a limit to the patch for two weeks, and now it is coming to a close. The man begins to feel his eye to heal and instead of seeing his world he is staring to see reality come back into play. The man becomes depressed because he view the world as being colorless and boring compared to his imagination that inspired his new identity. You can feel that the man is unhappy and has so much sorrow because of the real world that he would decide painfully to pluck out his eye in

desperation.
This sadness leads him to action as he starts to plan a way to pluck out his own eye so he can’t see the real world clearly but only half as good. Having only one eye to see the real world, but at the same time injuring his eye permanently can give him his world forever.
To summarize, the author claim was a man seeing eyesight as evil, what everyday people treasure. Through the patch he saw weathered deck, green sea of the grass, oceans and the oodles of booty. He imagined himself pillaging and plundering as if a pirate would. Having his eyesight come back hinders his imagination for the eye brings with it memories of the old and take with it the new which was always his imagination.
Sometimes being in your creative world is better than being in the world that you are now in and using an object or an event can give you an excuse to escape. This man should have felt embarrassed by wearing an ugly black patch and brought him down, but instead he is inspired and it sparks his imagination.