"Soonest Mended," by John Ashbery, is a poem that is highlighting our conformity to society's rules. It also highlights the uselessness of learning, although it also points out that learning is a never-ending endeavor. It is this learning that gives people "a delusion" (57) of self confidence, and it is this confidence that pushes us to conformity to become "good citizens" (66). Ashbery is trying to show that people are more alike than most people think, although we may look extremely different from each other.
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