The speaker seems to be speaking to the entire world, and perhaps to everyone alive. This is suggested by the line “We gotta start makin’ changes”. What I know about the speaker is that they are the kind of person who wants change. What I know about the situation – what’s happening in the poem – is that a man wants his voice to be hurd and let people know what’s going on in this world. People are just trying to survive in a corrupt world. Tupac wants a change as well as many other people. Perhaps because what he’s saying is true and people can’t catch a break. A line that especially evokes the first feeling for me is, “Pull a trigger kill a n*gga he’s a hero.” The other feeling – of dejection – arises when I read the line, “Is life worth living should I blast myself?”. It made me feel satisfied, yet, at the same time, disheartened. My first impression of this poem was that it was an amazing poem.

Not fight for something that we have to fight for because the government doesn’t want the change that we need. We all wish we can just go back to when we were kids and wanted ice cream, and go to the park, play tag and hide & seek, to be with friends and simply have fun. But now that we are older we understand how bad this world actually is and we all wish it wasn’t this bad. Running around in the park screaming, laughing, and playing. When you were younger you didn’t understand the majority of stuff that was going on. In the line “I’d love to go back to when we played as kids” Tupac was showing that when everyone was a kid it was better. We don’t see the change that we need to see. This world is left in the hands of youth. Everyday people get killed, hurt, harassed, bullied and much more and many people in power don’t do anything about it.

Will we ever truly have a change in our world? The question probably won’t ever be answered because we never know how the next generation will be. The poem “Changes” by Tupac Shakur makes me ask myself the same question.

Tupac changes