Human Legacy: Escapism or Truth?
Don Delillo’s epic White Noise offers readers a detailed look into the lives of a family that is so paralyzed by the thought of death, that their behavior and interests illustrate their desires to outrun death. When challenged with producing a poem as the creative piece to this epic that not only reflects one of Delillo’s themes, that people distract themselves in their everyday lives as a means of averting their thoughts about death, the poem also takes it a step further in commenting on how Jack and Babette’s distractions lead them into faulty thinking as well as the role society plays in this deception. The longer stanzas of “At Last Gasp” comment on specific characters in the book and on people/society in
