It is common knowledge that society is full of relationships among itself. For instance, we can focus and try to observe carefully the behaviour of people in schools; teachers and students. If we go inside of a teachers’ room, in whichever kind of school, we could notice that there exist a small society which lets us realize the way they relate each other, the way they behave, talk, think and feel, etc. Teachers usually feel safe in their place of work; in this case the teachers’ room. Here they can express what they want without being worried that a student could hear their private conversations, which most of times have a lot to do with their own students. On the other hand, we can find how the students’ relationships in a classroom are. Students typically do not respect each other; they fight without reasonable motivations, etc. But at the same time they build memorable friendships and they support each other.
Besides, we can relate each other with people we do not know. For example, when we are walking on the street we are in contact with others even if we do not want to. But, this relationship is the one which makes us think about how able are we to relate with others and to perceive the other. In this case it is important to say that we are not used to talk easily with someone who we don not know or while we are in a bus in the way to work or study we never tend, and even think, to talk to the person placed next to us. There could be many possibilities which could cause these kinds of reactions like; being shy, having nothing to say, etc. Although, those are not the real reasons to behave like that, there is something beyond which is called fear.
It is important to point out that we can also find the issue of society and relationships from the point of view of literature and poems. Some famous writers talk about society in their pieces of writing, where they point out to ideas such as discrimination, differences between women and men and relationships, among others. For example, Virginia Woolf in her essay “A room of one’s own” she refers to the difference that exists between women and men in terms of studies and work possibilities, women underestimation by men, etc. However, Virginia Woolf states that there are no differences and women and men have the same abilities to write and to develop as a professional. Therefore, we can say that she is a great reference of stating how good women can be without the supervision of men and that women can be even better than men. Besides, she tries to affirm that if women and men complement both talent and aptitudes to write it could create a perfect piece of work.
Also, we can identify the topic of society and relationships in W. H Austen’s poems, especially in September 1st 1939 where despite of talking about war we can identify some other interesting topics. For instance, this poem refers to life in times of war and how people feel it from their own experience. This pints out to the idea of corruption and abuse in which people are immersed and how they have to live and relate each other in that context. Besides, there exists a wish of freedom at the same time of a wish of rebellion in order to figure out the best ways to solve the problem of war. After that, it is necessary to re state the relationships between people, which had been devastated as well as the freedom and peace.
In conclusion, we can say that society is full of relationships; since the example of teachers and students to the differences between men and women. Poetry scientifically refers to that kind of important issues, where writers try to achieve everything in order to give sense to what is happening in the world. Everything is based on what they perceive from their point of view or reality. Virginia Woolf and W.H Austen are very important authors and referents of poetry and how it could be a mirror of society and relationships.
