Onions

The poem written by Naomi Shihab Nye was a very interesting poem written on the topic of onions. The first time I read through the poem I thought it was just a real descriptive poem showing how the onion is treated during its use. When we went through the poem a second time, and we had to pick some lines that we questioned is where I really started to get a different sense of the poem. The second time through I started to think that the poem had to do with a lot more than just onions. However, I still did not know what the author was trying to relate to, so it was good to read through it over a third time. The third time I started to believe that the author was relating onions to the things or people in life that do not get enough credit for what comes from them.

There are a lot of people in the world who do not receive credit for what they do, because either they pass off the credit to other people or people do not realize them enough to give them any credit. This is the main thought I ended up getting from reading this poem, and no matter what there are going to be onions wherever you go. There are going to be people that can be related to steak that absorb all the credit for the success happening, and the onions will be there doing the behind the scenes work that keeps the success going. I think that most of the time the onion people are just too shy where they would be scared to speak up and try to take some credit, so they just let it go and keep working hard. I think this poem does a good job in trying to make us realize the hard working people that no matter what will never get the credit they deserve.