There Is Always More Than Meets the Eye

In e preciseday life false sound judgment is not hard to find. Everybody in the human being has a different attitude and delegacy of portraying themselves to the public, the way you look does not always depute who you really be. This essay leave alone discuss and analyze the poem The refuse &038 the Tourist by Shahriar Shahriari that is about not judging a disk by its cover. The tune The Way I Am by Eminem duologue about the same topic but with celebrities and their fans. The meaning of both will be discussed throughout the essay. These two poems are based on judgments on many points of views like media, values and rules of order.Exploring the similarities and differences amidst them will help condone their meaning. The poem The Beggar &038 the Tourist clearly shows how looks depose make deal wonder what kind of person you are and how valuable is to society. This can be seen at the beginning What a simple existence, purposeless and futile my mind (Shahriari 2) this w as addressed by the tourist when he saw a schnorr just staring into the sky. The poem clearly states how some determine a persons value to society basing on looks, without knowing or speaking to them ever in their life. This kind of mentality can guess how and with who you socialize.In this case the bum thinks the tourist is as useless as him because he lives as a slave of society when he stated in the poem He saw a young man busily running around in futile pursuit/Only to contact what he was taught, someones ideal to suite (Shahriari 3). Eminem in his song The Way I Am talks about the judgment surrounded by fans and celebrities in the fragment of the song Im so sick and tired of macrocosm admired / That I wish that I would just die or get blast / And dropped from my label and stop with the fables (Eminem 62-64) In this verse Eminem is talking about him being tired of getting so much attention.All that attention gets in the way of him being able to live a normal life and he w ould rather get a new job than to live by the expectations of the fans. They expect him to always be a nice man when he is just simple human being like the rest of the world that have their ups and downs. It also expresses a hard critic on society and media when he says When a dudes getting bullied and shoots up his school / And they blame it on Marilyn and the heroin / Where were the parents at?And look where its at / Middle America, now its a tragedy / Now its so sad to see, an upper class metropolis / Having this happening (Eminem 52-55) This entire verse talks about the Columbine guess tragedy and how the media tries to cover it up by blaming the music that they listened and the drugs they used. Eminem criticized the media on wherefore they did not stop to think maybe it was their parents scorn to prevent the bulling against their kids. He also criticizes how if that same scenario happened in a swallow society class the media would not have cared that much.There are lots of differences and similarities between these two poems. The most obvious similarity between the song and the conventional poem is the prejudgment and both authors criticize it from different perspectives. The difference between them is the subject is addressed in the prejudgment. In the The Beggar &038 the Tourist it is between a bum and a suit tourist and in the song The Way I Am it is between celebrities and their fans. Both poems have very noticeable social critics such as the significance of life and how looks can affect how people think of you.The world suffers from this social outbreak because it is taught since childishness how poor people break the law and rich people do not, how black people are bad and white people are good. Since we were born society has always been telling us what to do depending on our ethnicity, status and personality. These are examples of the most common prejudgments of society that have to be changed and the objective of the poems is to open the eye s of people and make them realize how this is happening.