Fueled – Marcie Hans

 

Summary

 

The poem Fuelled is written by ‘Marcie Hans’. In this short poem Marcie Hans talks about creation and invention. It also balances invention of man and God’s creation. but the imbalance is pointed out succinctly because petty man cheer himself by paltry exhibition of his achievements. but no one seems to appreciate the silent success of God who buy a mere thought, made and insentient seeding fight against hard Earth and grow up into a tree. the graphic representation of the word shows the image of a rocket or even a tree but only have one half of it. the two sections began with the word field but the poet has bought out the west difference between the two kinds of fuelling.
Marcie Hans shows that man is too caught up in himself with arrogance – the human race believes its own creations to be superior to everything else, and take no note of the truly amazing creations in the world, God’s creations. This poem has two ‘halves,’ that with the rocket and that with the seedling. The language in the two ‘halves’ of the poem are parallel in writing– while the rocket is fueled by “a million man-made wings of fire,” the seedling is fueled by “a thought from God.” This parallelism continues throughout both halves. Through this effective use of parallelism, Hans creates two images – one of the large and powerful images of a rocket, and one of a small plant struggling its way up through the soil. The use of powerful language in the first half, including “wings of fire” and “tore” are used to show the opinion that man has for himself – the arrogant belief that everything humans accomplish is magnificent and that everything they accomplish is thought of as God-like though it really is not. The language in the second half of the poem is less powerful, as the seedling “urge[s]” itself up through the soil, persevering its way up, even though this is the action that God (usually characterized as powerful) has created. However, these two opposing styles of language are used to show how man’s achievements, though powerful and impressive, are really nothing at all. “Everybody cheered” at the rocket, but “no/one/even/clapped” when the seedling “launched itself/up into outer space.” The true impressive act was not that of a rocket, as ithas the support of a million “wings of fire,” but that of the seedling, which grows only by a “thought from God.” Hans shows that man does not view the growth of the seedling as impressive, as he is too much caught up in himself and man-made creations to notice the acts of God which are most impressive. Dramatic effect is used in the last 4 lines as the meaning of the lines, as well as the way they are they structured, create a tone of intensity and works to accentuate the arrogance of humans and how truly terrible it is that no one appreciates the wonderfulness of the growth of the seedling.