Abdication, Death and the Spotlight

The Queen of Erickson Avila depicts man’s wheeling fate – unpredictable and unexpected.

It encompasses a twist from obtaining goods until the persona ends up with a narrowed sovereign in a coffin. Too narrow that it makes the reckoning soul lament. The poem attempts to narrate life’s uncertainty.  There are two portions of the piece. The first part portrays the persona’s ownership of the limelight while the second part is the The Queen’s  abdication.

Man’s fate cannot be pin pointed accurately. There is no assurance of what may come next. Being an accolade magnate gives nothing but temporary possessions that may even mislead a person. In the end of our lives we will still be jailed in a coffin – lifeless. No matter how much we gain, The Queen will still be abdicated from her throne.

The poem’s ending portrays an unaccepted death, no triumph of any sort. Death maybe symbolic in many ways as far as one’s legacy is concerned. But to draw an image of a coffin for one’s death emphasizes the mourning and defiance over death. It as if a dead is a prisoner. And that parole is of no possibility.

The Queen is an exemplar of an evolved poetry since it adapts to the fast changing world. By structure and length, it consumes less time to read. Its linguistic command doesn't select audiences. It approaches the reader as rapid as possible and as simple as comprehensible. This technique easily exposes the message, unlike other poetries that tends to be proverbial or riddle type therefore blurring the imagery to be perceived by the reader. Avila also seems to parallel the surprising elements the Flash fiction by employing it in the poem. Flash fiction tends broaden itself to adjust to the short tempered readers of our common period. Ergo, the poet calibrates his words to the audience of his time.