How do the words used to describe the poems arrest help contribute to the idea that the arrest in the poem is unjust

First, let's add the poem to which this question refers:

This poem will be guilty. It assumed it retained

the right to ask its question after the page

came up flush against its face. The purpose

this poem serves is obvious, even to this poem,

and that cannot stop the pen or the fist

choking it. How the page tastes at times—unsalted

powerlessness in this poem’s mouth, a blend

of that and what it has swallowed of the news. It spits

blood—inking. It is its own doing and undoing.

This poem is trying to compose itself. It has

the right to remain either bruised or silent,

but it is a poem, so it hears you’d be safer

if you stopped acting like a poem, ceased resisting.

Where is the daylight (this poem asks and is thus crushed) between existence and resistance,

between the now-bloodied page and the poem?  

Another poem will record the arrest of this poem,

decide what to excerpt. That poem will fail—

it won’t find the right metaphor for the pain

of having to lift epigraphs from the closing

words of poems that were accused of resisting.  

That poem is numb. This poem is becoming

numb, already losing feeling in its cuffed phrasing.

No one will remember the nothing of which

this poem was accused—just that it was another

poem that bled. This poem never expected to be

this poem, yet it must be—for you who will not

acknowledge the question. This poem knew

it was dangerous to ask why?

Answer and Explanation:

We have heard of and seen several cases of unjust arrests and imprisonment. It is, unfortunately, a common occurrence that may take away years and years of someone's life. Those cases are also - and this is a painful reality - very much related to prejudice and racism.

In those cases, people do not have their rights respected. They are beaten, threatened, intimidated to the point of confessing. They are judged and put away, and then they are forgotten. That is precisely what the poem we are analyzing here conveys. The poem's arrest is an unjust one. Let's highlight the words and phrases that contribute to that idea:

This poem will be guilty.

that cannot stop the pen or the fist  /choking it.

It has  / the right to remain either bruised or silent,

unsalted  / powerlessness

It spits  / blood—inking.

No one will remember the nothing of which  / this poem was accused

As we can see above, the author is conveying the suffering of someone who has been unjustly taken, beaten, choked, threatened, and so on. What happens to this poem is sheer cruelty. It cannot defend itself - it is not given a chance to do so.

1. Grover was timid and lacked confidence. He was not obviously brilliant as well"

"Grover was an easy target. He was scrawny. He cried when he got frustrated. He must've been held back several grades, because he was the only sixth grader with acne and the start of a wispy beard on his chin".

"Grover has big dreams. Perhaps bigger than are reasonable. To reach his goal, Grover must first demonstrate great courage by succeeding as a keeper, finding a camper and bringing him safely to Half-Blood Hill."

2. He becomes a very brave, loyal

and selfless person as well as a great protector of his friends who was willing to give up his personal comforts for those of his friends.

"I'm a satyr […] We don't have souls like humans do. [Hades] can torture me until I die, but he won't get me forever. I'll just be reincarnated as a flower or something. It's the best way."

"Look, Percy, I'm not as smart as Annabeth. I'm not as brave as you. But I'm pretty good at reading emotions. You're glad your dad is alive.

3. Grover, he starts out as Percy's best friend that he met at the school he goes to, Yancy Academy. He is described as an outsider at school like Percy which gives them something in common. When Percy finds out he is a demigod, it is revealed that Grover was his keeper and a satyr. Keepers find campers and bring them back to Camp Half-Blood safely. Grover failed doing this with Thalia, Zeus' daughter, and it was ruled that he also failed to bring Percy to camp safely. Grover has to now prove himself by bringing Percy and Annabeth back from their quest safely. He succeeds at this.

4. Grover love of nature and his desire to not succeed after being labelled a failure helped him to change.

According to the Council of Cloven Elders, Grover did not bring Percy safely back to Camp Half-Blood the night the Minotaur attacked, and he also failed to bring Thalia to safety (which hurt him badly). That means that, he has failed twice at being a keeper. Grover's last chance to win a searcher's license is to safely bring Percy and Annabeth home from their quest.

Grover's dream is to search for Pan, a privilege that only few satyrs are granted and he's incredibly passionate about nature. So, he ensured he didn't fail again in order to achieve his dream.

"I was supposed to escort Thalia to camp. Only Thalia. I had strict orders from Chiron: don't do anything that would slow down the rescue. We knew Hades was after her, see, but I couldn't just leave Luke and Annabeth by themselves. I thought... I thought I could lead all three of them to safety. It was my fault the Kindly Ones caught up with us. I froze. I got scared on the way back to camp and took some wrong turns. If I'd just been a little quicker..."

"But for the satyrs, Pan was our lord and master. He protected us and the wild places of the earth. We refuse to believe that he died. In every generation, the bravest satyrs pledge their lives to finding Pan. They search the earth, exploring all the wildest places, hoping to find where he is hidden, and wake him from his sleep."

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