The material I'm discussing in my contemporary issue is a poem called Lost. It is one of many poems from the book My Country. it is about a person being alienated from the surrounding people and he's got a disease called AIDS . Lost is a poem about a person being alienated because he or her has got a disease . It shows the way people treat you differently when you're different to them .The poem describes how this person made a mistake of trusting people and getting a blood transfusion made the person get an incurable disease. The aspect of the issue in the material is alienation, personal choice and the society . Alienation because it describes how the person in the poem had bee