Fiffteen by William Stafford

The poem Fifteen by William Stafford, describes the ideas of a three-year-old teenager and imaginations when he sees a pedal at the side of the rail, It make knowns us of how the primary(prenominal) image gets familiar with adulthood and starts getting mature, it gives us changes. The pen in his poem describes the ideas and temptations that a fifteen year old would have, and it gives us a message of how when you atomic number 18 blinded of your teenage dreams, at the like time to take and decide the correct paths and endings. In the first stanza William Stafford halt realization. He describes a motorcycle below a bridge.The cycle is abandoned, locomotive engine running as it order on its side, ticking over easily in the high ley. To begin his poem Stafford gives us a location, southernmost of the Bridge on Seventeenth. If one were to assume that we as people, traveled metaphoric eachy in any direction I would think it to be northerly for example Up for all differe nt purposes. Staffords character is south, non necessarily heading south, but he is south in carnal knowledge to the bridge. Changes argon like bridges, connections between one span of life and the next. Points where the driveway which below is much less stable, where there arent miles of solid territory below.Changes are things that you have to get over. And thinking that Staffords age which is fifteen years, like us all, we are heading north, then hes in for a change a bridge in the future. The motorcycle in the other hand was found back of the willows one summer day. Willows are beautiful flowing trees, their branches fall down and hide their boxershorts veiling whatever may lie at their shape from all on the other side of their barrier. Staffords character finds the motorcycle beyond the barriers of the willows and so we can imagine him pulling aside the waterfall of verdancy and revealing the pefrect machine.On the other hand everything about the scene finds of a cloak -and-dagger truth discovered. The high grass, tall as if to hide the treasures that are at heart it, and the willows, and even the picture of calm, warm serenity that comes to mind with the idea of trees in the summer. But the boy finds the cycle unexpectedly, he did non know or even awaited it. In the second stanza it connects temptation and imagination. The cycle becomes his forbid imagination, it has a pulsing gleamshiny flanksdemure headlights fringed where it lay it is arousing him. First with its beauty its pulsing and shiny.Its elegant and superb as described in the second stanza . Then its interest, he led it gently to the road and stood with that companion, ready and friendly. It draws him in. And for the first part hes taken with it. He admired it. He stood with it. He was progeny and he saw the beauty as something he wanted. He was a teenager after all chasing his dream. These moments are him creation a peasant this is him before the good man from later in the poem . You can tell he is taken with it from the way he gently leads it to the road, he is winning care of it.You are non gentle with things that you think are not needed or that you dislike. One does not describe these things either as having a pulsing gleam. Possibly freedom and perhaps bliss are shown in stanza three. The character is imagining himself on the open road. Hes visualize taking the motorcycle and riding away on it. It gives to speculation if he, being fifteen can even legally drive one, let all that would then surely be considered stealing. Assuming that hes not there appears the forbidden imagination again. Its not legal, not okay, just he wants it temptatiously.Though, as for freedom and excitement, he clearly states that there is a forward feeling, a tremble. For example a reader would take this to be excitement growing inside the main character. He is confident. He is sharp and positive at least because he is patting the handle, and receiving a confident opini on. He is indulging or giving interest, a word used to give tongue to freedom to do something enjoyable. In the fourth stanza Staffords poem takes a different direction shall we say, a new character is introduced, the owner of the motorcycle.The grass which is mentioned earlier seems to be hiding more than just the cycle, but in any case its passenger. This also shows a change in the nature of the boy, a decision being made. He thinks and thinkingfound the owner. The boy in a rush pushes aside his temptation towards freedom and excitement. He chooses. He does not choose to ride away, though, rather to be mature and responsible. To think of more than just himself and locate whomever the bike had belonged. The owner, thrown from the bike in the crash.The rider is just coming to, or else awakening from unconsciousness he essential have got from his crash. He had flipped over the rail. He had blood on his hand, was pale This man is not in good shape. He just crashed his motorcyc le and had blood on his hands. On the outside he is injured and confounded needs help getting to his bike. Physically, he is weak while it seems that the main character being fifteen, is not. He is voiceless which is connected from the fact that they are young, full of life as fifteen year olds are. But the rider once at his bike, becomes strong once again, he roared away. He is not magically healed , he is hush up bleeding from the crash, but he has the inside strength of a confident adult and he still gets on his bike and rides away. Before leaving the man calls the main character a good man. To sum it up, the main character begins as a fifteen year old with a change a bridge in his future, he is beginning to realize this. Then he becomes, in the fourth stanza, a good man. Most importantly, a man. He started maturing, learning of getting older, most importantly Stating in my conclusion that the boy, as he finds the cycle and then after moments of indecision, returns it begins his own road to adulthood.He goes from thought of the temptations of the machine to giving it back to its owner and watching him ride away. So I took myself as an example, because I am also a teenager who has his dream and goals and will be facing adulthood myself. It showed us a mature boy who fought of his temptations and teenage dreams, and choosing the correct path of adulthood. It gives a strong message of spirituality which does pushes us forward of following our dreams but at the same time taking the right decision, as shown with the main character.