"ALL Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace" by Richard Brautigan

In the poem ALL Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace by Richard Brautigan poet is trying to be sarcastic about scientific technology because in all the stanzas he is favoring science by writing positive effects about it and how it will change things once it start playing role in our everyday life. But in every second line of each stanza poet changes the tone of the poem from positive to negative as in second line of first stanza poet wants to say that science only gives pleasure for small time after that it start showing its characteristics because nothing good comes out form it whenever man tries to play with it. Also poet is describing how it will help to promote harmony in nature as we can see all around us what type harmony poet is talking about “where mammals and computers live together in mutually programming harmony”(4-5). In the end of first stanza poet use simile to compare harmony advertise by science to the pure water as we can see that all the invention that science brought in for our comfort produce pollution which in turn polluting our natural resources so I think poet is trying to tell us that even though we see science as useful now but in future we are going to be devastated by its work and results.
Poet also had post technology tone and message in this poem, I think whole poem is filled with positive things about technology such as what’s going to happen when science start reaching in our regular life and how much it can make us free. In every stanza except his sarcastic second lines he used scientific terminology with calm and peaceful words to show how science going to promote harmony in nature. In the last stanza as poet say that science and machines going to handle our day to day work that it going to make us free from many responsibility and will let us go back to the nature and admire its beauty “where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature”(20-21). Poet even mentioned about living with mammals and other animals who are our ancestors, according to him this will bring us closer to each other while machines are watching us and other things which signifies science effect is that machines are going to control everything.
According to me poet is siding more toward anti-technology because I think he is trying to be ambiguous when he describes positive things which science going to bring in nature which actually corresponds to all negative results. That’s why poet wrote every second line of each stanza in present right now which shows the reader that science inventions are just good for small period of time and are going to have bad effects in future. In last stanzas where he describes all people and animals living together but in lines(24-25) “and all watched over by machines of loving grace” poet is saying that everything that we will try to do machines are going to watch us which is kind a understatement that poet made in these lines, I think this means that machines will start controlling every aspect of our lives and by loving grace poet means to say that what we thought is helpful to human nature will change its course and will dominate the whole world.