A READER RESPONSE JOURNAL

Dito Lang
By: Allan Popa

The analysis of a story might be challenging. Each reader has their own perception of
each work of literature in thus poem. “Dito lang” by Allan Popa come up with the
conclusion about someone having a hard time by socializing to anyone. This character might
have the personal having a confident by being alone however we all experience thinking
a lot of positive and negative thoughts and wondering, instead of dwelling on negative
thoughts and a lots of what if’s, you should pay more attention to the good side.

This poem is a reflection on my experiences, where I have had various thoughts.

However, as Allan Popa noted in the first line of the poem, “I only sing in my mind”.
The readers come to this conclusion about there is a thoughts that what could be a
possible situation if do this things or what could have not if something was bad or had
been diffirent.

This short poem shows my characteristics of being shy type person. I had what-ifs in my
head about them saying they wished I had entered the competitions sooner but perhaps
they were afriad for me that I wouldn’t be able to do it and I might stutter in front of
a lot people and I wouldn’t be able to handle the high notes. My sister heard my
beautiful voice when I was young, but they didn’t pay attention to it when I was old;
they didn’t even tell me that they heard me when I was young, that I had it’s fortunate
that they didn’t inform my mother that I’m now singing in private because I’m really
timid and don’t want to interact with many people.

When I learned about the poem by Allan Popa that is just here, I felt as though I
recognize myself in that poem about my voice. My shy attitude makes it seem like you
can’t change it and you’ll carry it for the rest of your life, but it’s not about my voice;
I’m just going to leave it for the rest of my life. We don’t know when I’ll be able to
use my beautiful voice, so let’s just be positive and aviod being on the negative side.