Rodan
Rodan’s images are hard, frozen sculptures depicting a scene, but he sees them as alive and is able to portray them as alive. It is valuable as an artist to give your art life; you give your art a piece of yourself. Our art has more meaning to us when we put a piece of ourselves in it. You are portrayed in your art, and those who are able to capture the natural aspect of movement and life are able to create better art.
Gambling
To have nothing, means it is all over, there is nothing. As long as we can feel something, we are still alive. Even if things are awful, there can be hope. Believing in nothing and to go into a consciousness of nothing can be more terrifying than the idea of Hell, where at least there is something concrete. A lot of people find pleasure in gambling; it gives them hope that things can change with just one more game. It can be addicting, as people desperately hope for the one game that can change their stars. In these poems it appears that the writer is only an observer. He is the voice of reason and the people being observed are not in their right mind, as they would rather suffer in torment. By the third poem, Smitz’s voice of reason has changed, as he is envies their joy and perceived happiness in gambling. Smitz seems to lack passion, and desires the passion that he sees in the gamblers, even though he recognizes that they aren’t much more than skeletons. The poems are somewhat hypocritical because they judge them for the gambling while envying or admiring them.
