Parallel Reading

Parallel Reading

Ode to Technology...

You've brought us closer,

Then made us more distant.

Made us more aware,

Then made us doubtful of ourselves.

Introduce us to more friends,

Then invited more enemies.

Given us more publicity,

Then exploited us.

Save us more time,

Now it's spent to be more busy.

Simplify our tasks just to make life more difficult.

You're an entrapping blessing in disguise.

Made us feel more secure,

Yet gave us more tools to break in.

You've become our new addiction,

Just a second without you,

Got us in technology withdraw.

You're a complication in simplicity.

There's so much to love you but also so much to hate.

Can't live with you or without you...

                                                                                       Tien Dang

PARALLEL READING

Additional Questions:

1. Who bought us closer and then made us more distance?

Answer: Technology brought us closer and then made us more distance.

2. What did technology do?

Answer: It introduced us to more friends and invited enemies. It gave us more publicity and exploited us. It saved us more and it is spent to be more busy.

3. What does the poet say about the Technology?

Answer: The technology is an entrapping blessing in disguise.

4. Which is our new addiction?

Answer: Technology is our new addiction.

5. Can we live without Technology?

Answer: No, we cannot live without technology.