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My Very Own Chrome Experience

[INTRODUCTION]
Poetry allows people to express their feelings and experiences in ways that regular texts cannot.
It pictures and reflects the reader's feelings and experiences as well. Mark Rudman's poem,
"Chrome," proved this description of poetry. [THESIS] At first, everything in the poem seems to
be talking about motocross, but after reading between the lines, it's also trying to relate a deeper
meaning of "free falling" and "letting go.[THESIS]

[BODY PARAGRAPH]
In motocross, when bikers make their stunts, they do it with the help of the momentum they got
from the speed of driving and the spills or bump which catapults them in the open air. In the
poem "Chrome" by Rudman, he said, "spills were rehearsals for free falling," which is right in
the literal sense because spills can cause him to loose his balance, and fall off his bike or crash.
When doing all the stunts in the air, time seems to slow down. The way on how the bikers do all
their stunts in such a short perio...

Posted by: John Mayes

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