This is the outgrowth of yet another assignment, to write a poem in three sections with a quote from somewhere else somewhere in the poem.  I had to come up with something that could be divided into three parts that had some sort of cohesion between them, and after much deliberation, I decided to do something about the different aspects of the mind.  I imagined the mind as divided into two main parts that did most of the actual work, which for argument's sake I'll call reason and emotion, and then a third part oh hierarchical superiority that mostly delegates and does no actual work.  So with this in mind, I envisioned reason to be coldly logical and unfeeling, very focused only on the idea of making progress, though that may have been a misguided goal for how progress is defined.  Emotion I pictured as being wrapped completely in despair and very disconnected in his speech for lack of being able to focus in a rational way.  And then to introduce a cause to move the poem along, I imagined the superior to be a sort of parental figure whose children had been rebelling and taking him for granted and who was unhappy for not being appreciated for the menial work he does.  The quote in that section, by the way, is from Beethoven's 9th symphony, and is the introduction to the Ode to Joy, a poem written by Schiller and used in the symphony's final movement.  The titles are Latin, and mean right, middle, left, and circle.  I suppose there is also an underhanded slight aimed towards the world of politics, where the extreme right and left are usually held under by the stalwart middle that does nothing really and ultimately always feels threatened and unhappy.