3. Explanation of Stanza 3 and 4

  

The poet's grandmother gets engrossed in the computer that she gets influenced by the virus. The poet has brilliantly made a word play with the words virus and worm, as it can refer to both the literal and connoted meaning. A person who is sick can be affected by a virus or a worm. Similarly a computer virus can also attack a person in such a way that a person gets addicted to it. The poet's grandmother is missing since the virus has gobbled her. It is quite uncertain as to what exactly is the reason for her getting vanished.

 

The poet searches for the grandmother anxiously in all kinds of places. Generally when a person is missing, we tend to look for them in physical spaces such as friend's house or in the neighborhood. But in this case, the poet searches for the missing grandmother in the recycle bin of the computer folders. This is a sarcastic way of mentioning that the grandmother is completely in the control of the device and after a while has been deleted just like any other unnecessary files. This shows that anyone who gets into the control of technology and becomes a slave will be missing from human social interactions.

 

The poet slowly searches all other files in the computer in the hopes of getting the grandmother. Rather than limiting the search to the offline folders and files, the poet even uses the internet as it can connect one across the globe. Being very desperate, the poet uses the search engine jeeves to find her. Google, Bing, are some of the predominant search engines. But the poet prefers Ask Jeeves, as it accepts plain English questions or phrases. The way internet is being referred to as a person who could be approached in times of need, shows the influence it has on us. Unfortunately, no matter what the poet tries, the grandmother is not to be found.