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Shane Koyczan 'To This Day'
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3. dynamic. We can see this in how Koyzcan shifts his tone from humorous and light-hearted “pork-chop”,
to ominous and reluctant “don’t tell me”, and finally to that of elation after his transformation “we are
roots… they were wrong.” Koyczan
masterfully employs the narrative arc in his spoken word poem, not only so we
can understand more accurately the complex nature of transformations, but so we can ourselves see
hope in our own potential transformations.
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7. means understanding that
some transformations are impossible.
However, societal perceptions and
pressures can mean that the broader
community can come to place the blame for
the absence of transformations on the
individual themselves. The child is
described as “a mixed drink/one part left
alone/two parts tragedy” and yet those
around him still believe that “depression/is
something that can be remedied/by and of
the contents found in a first aid kit”.
Koyczan uses the metaphor of “first aid
kits” and “mixed drinks” to subvert the