Magpiety

Magpiety The main idea of my essay is that the speaker in the poem “Magpiety” by Philip Levine has realized that half of his life has passed, yet he has not yet lived it. A part of my argument is that he feels that he has wasted half of his life because he is sixty-four looking back on thirty-two and wondering why he was rushing. One of the biggest problems that I had at this point in the writing process was that at first, I didn’t have enough evidence to support my thoughts. However, after revising several times, I found the evidence needed. Another problem I had was relating different sections in the poem to one another. There were many lines in the poem that could be interpreted in many different ways and I had to sift through and pick the best suited ones for my topic of argument. The poem, life, evidence, man, lived, different, yet, ways, thoughts, support, revising, point, lines, interpreted, half, fullest, argument, another, about, writing, wondering, while, wasted, trouble, tried, topic, times, through, though, thirty-two, think, suited, successfully, strongly