All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace -Richard Brautigan

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace                     -Richard Brautigan

Richard Brautigan" All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" show the theme of past and present with the future. It shows how today technology is taking over, computers are everywhere and one day in the future they will replace our class in society.

Brautigan dreams of a cybernetic world in which technology and nature agree each other. Instead of human beings dominating other species, humans and animals are on the same level. The computers become the dominating and we all live together in harmony as if there were no differences. Computers can take care of the entire world and humans can be free of labors and join back to nature. This poem is symbolic of how we live with animals. We are dominated species and in the poem, computers replace us. Brautigan connects the ideas of the past, present and reality with the future of computers taking over human jobs and positions, creating them to be the "mothers" that look over.

Richard dreams of a paradise free of labor (at least the mind and the soul numbing labor most humans must endure to earn three squares and a roof over the head) so that like the beasts of the forest we wake and sleep and eat and procreate and socialize without the bitterness of want our current state entails: that is the promise of machines of loving grace. What Richard means is to equalize between technology and nature because one day technology will take over us.