Attack of the Aliens

Attack of the Aliens

Everyone sees life from a different perspective. Our different perspectives of life are the cause, and solution of many problems. Little children are well known for their different views of life. Looking at a VCR one might ask a child what they see. The response would usually not be the obvious. Most children would say that a VCR is a black (or whatever color) monster that eats videos, and later spits them out again. An alien would have much the same view as a little child, innocent yet imaginative; trying to explain something they don’t quite understand.
A Martian Sends a Postcard Home is, simply put, about an alien sending a postcard home to Mars. The alien does not know how to describe certain things, so it does its best by using symbolism, and imagery. Some of the imagery is easy to understand, like “time tied to the wrist” which is obviously a watch. Most of the symbolism of the poem is quite deep, and takes quite a bit of meditati...