Poetry Out Loud

Song of the Powers By David Mason
Mine, said the stone,
mine is the hour.
I crush the scissors,
such is my power.
Stronger than wishes,
my power, alone.
Mine, said the paper,
mine are the words
that smother the stone
with imagined birds,
reams of them, flown
from the mind of the shaper.
Mine, said the scissors,
mine all the knives
gashing through paper’s
ethereal lives;
nothing’s so proper
as tattering wishes.
As stone crushes scissors,
as paper snuffs stone
and scissors cut paper,
all end alone.
So heap up your paper
and scissor your wishes
and uproot the stone
from the top of the hill.
They all end alone
as you will, you will.

5 Themes In Asher Lev

1.family

2.religion

3. social worms

4.struggle for identity

5.desire for art

the theme I picked is struggle for identity because its a major part of Asher's life.

Asher struggles each and every single day finding himself . One major particle why Asher has a hard time of finding himself is that each of his parents expect something major from him. He has a hard time finding himself because of his desire for art.

like it says in chaper one he's a gifted child. Wthout art he has a hard time expressing his true identity as an artist. basically all Asher is hiding his real identity. He knows he and his family are observant jews so he tries not bringing shame to his family by not drawing even though he's going to bring shame in the future but this time he tries to keep his drawing on the down low. Asher for now is discovering his true self as an observant jew inoder to do that he has to stop drawing for awhile which he did.

In conclusion Asher might have a struggle finding his true identity but he's going through a phase of finding himself. In the position of his father working for the rabbi Asher has high standards of being the best . Asher is in a akward stage which every child goes through but I believe Asher will find his true identity before the story is finished. Asher is almost of the insight of his true self .