In Digging A Hole To The Moon

In Digging a Hole to the Moon, Scott Noon Creley, a poet who holds an MFA in writing from California State University, Long Beach, and a BA in writing from UC Riverside, writes many works of poetry. In his various poems, Creley writes his experiences and shows his thinking of life. Creley’s experiences of longing for someone and the loss of a loved one brought him to think that life is pointless and hopeless. Creley carries this unique idea of life throughout many of his works of poetry. He takes it further to a point to even say that there is no point in living in life because nothing good can come out of living it. The possibility of something better at the end of a struggle is not visible in his writings. On the other hand, in Man’s Search for Meaning, the psychiatrist Victor Frankl writes about his experience as a concentration camp inmate during World War II and explains that hope is a motivational method that can change a person’s perspective of life.

From his experience, Frankl observed that those who survived longest in concentration camps were not those who physically strong, but those who retained a sense of hope over their environment. He also observed that people who did not lose their hope to live could stand from their pains. Although both Creley and Frankl writes about their experiences but they have different perspectives of life. In Digging a Hole to the Moon, Scott Noon Creley believes that life is essentially pointless and hopeless because of his experience in loss of a loved one while Victor Frankl suggests in Man’s Search for Meaning that hope is necessary in life because it motivates people to survive and endure from the pain.