Dystopia

Dystopia

By: Josh Gibbens

Smoke pumping into the sky,

A Gothic Skyline filled with black

Black architecture,

Dominating a brooding landscape

 

Clanking cogs grinding,

Making an inhuman scream

People walking silently,

In black uniform lines

 

No individuality survives,

Everyone dressed the same, skin pale to the eye

Morbidly cold to the touch,

Mere machines

 

Blackness permeating everywhere,

Flesh providing no warmth

I dream of what the world could have been like,

Full of colour and life, full of creativity and uniqueness

 

No place to voice my ideas,

Dangerous ideas crushed by those in control

Part of one collective mind,

Merely a subjugated citizen!

 

 

Analysis

Josh Gibbens takes the idea of a dystopian society and explicates it by alluding the readers mind into the world of a dystopia. He allows us to see from the outside looking in. He describes the uniformity which takes away individual power and the “colour” of life which turns to “blackness.” He also uses “I” in the poem to put himself into the world so we can see it through his eyes. He uses imagery and detail show how inhabitable dystopian society can be.