Sunday, June 22, 2008

Poetry for the Masses?

Yours truly is a very troubled man these days... Reason being I don't get poetry. Also because my A/L's are less than two months away, but mostly because I don't get poetry. :)

Let's sample a few verses and see what they mean to the layman. I dug up a collection of poems recently. This goes out to all the people in the world who feel poetry is retarded. Yes, all four of them!

1)"The Farewell"

I picked this fragile sprig of heather
Autumn has died long since remember
Never again shall we see one another
Odor of time sprig of heather
And remember I await our life together

From the title, I gather that it's something the poet would write to someone he is bidding goodbye to. All's well upto now. Then we see that he has picked a sprig of heather, which happens to be, fragile! Okay, fine. Some rambling before he gets to the point I guess. Then we see the autumn line. What the hell? Who cares what season it is? Or is it symbolically autumn in his relationship with whoever he's writing to?, whatever that means. Then, we finally see some sense, in the third line. Only to be shattered again by the last line, which says "await our life together". Poets are a confused bunch. No wonder the gal's leaving him.

2) "The Elephant"

As an elephant carries ivory
I bear in my mouth a precious gift
O purple death! ... I buy my fame
At the expense of pretty words

Now this thing creates some doubts in the mind of any reader. He carries in his mouth a precious gift, "As an elephant carries ivory". Does that mean elephants have ivory in their mouths? :s Or just that he's got something sticking out his mouth like vampire teeth? And then, as if to confirm his retardedation, he goes on about some purple death, which i assume is some form of mutated black death.

3) "Chapeau Tombeau"

He spreads his smut
In America
This little or-
nithological butt

But
Enough of this
I'll take a piss

Do I have to point out what lead me to think all poets are just reatards in disguise? Ornithological butt?

4) "How the Bird Singing"

How the bird singing
In the green poplar's peak of light
up to the gay sun of bright afternoon
splits my soul pleasantly in two-
and what musical blood pours out!
from the unturning zenith
down to the unchanging earth!

Birds singing! How bad could that be eh? So, there's a poplar, which I've gathered is popular with poets. Sneaky. So on this poplar, under a homosexual sun, a bird sits. But alas! This is no ordinary bird! It appears to eat the souls of the living by cutting them in half. But, typical of a poet, he praises the devil-bird's actions and finds it pleasurable. He likes it when the "musical" blood pours out. Sicko.

Poetry should be treated with the same attitude as animal porn :p , and there should be regular raids on poet gathering places, such as poplars, drainage pipes and around the childrens play area in the park, looking for narcotics. I have no idea how I got through english lit in school...

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And now, please don't flame me if you read, write or like poetry. I was merely speaking in jest. No offense to anyone, except the bastard who wrote of the evil bird. He deserves to be tied to a stake and burned along with the rest of his coven. :)

13 comments:

TheWhacksteR said...
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TheWhacksteR said...

Haha spoken like a true suffering student! i feel you brother! but i do like poetry and like the last one about the soul splitting bird. he is talking about how the music confounds him and puts him in a trance where he doesn't know if he's going up or down most probably. ecstatic evil indeed!

And please,
Bear me no sorrow,
I deleted the last comment due to a typo,
You follow?

Shifani Reffai said...

Chapeau Tombeau was written by some silly german coot. But the rest of the poems.. well let's just say the english poets and their critics would gangrape you for this satire. :D

Jerry said...

@whackster
I WISH I could do lit instead of maths, chem or physiscs!
The rest of that comment was too poetic to comprehend ;)

Yes yes, mr poet man. :D

@Shifani
They all are! Not German, but the rest anyway. And satire? cool!

You really think this is satire? *blush

Anonymous said...

Ye want the Poets to notice ye don't ye? Why ye vile attention seeker! Hmm..like shifs said, there sure is an element of satire.....Try Oscar Wilde's and Alexander Pope's poetry, ye may come to enjoy it. Ps: Oscar Wilde was Gay :)

Anonymous said...

Yes I do. So they'll send me even more poetry to decipher.

:p

So gay men write better poetry? :D

mixedblessings89 said...

(grins) Good luck to you :D :D :D

Anonymous said...

Actually, I think the first one says that the girl died. Now he's waiting. Life has sorta faded, which is why Autumn is mentioned. "Await our life together" would pretty much mean that he's just waiting to die so that he can join her. Methinks anyway.

Six & Out said...

the farewell- talking about someone passing on. autumns faded away and the smell of heather reminds him of their parting

btw that poems not accurate

I’ve gathered this sprig of heather
Autumn is dead you will remember
On earth we’ll see no more of each other
Fragrance of time sprig of heather
Remember I wait for you forever

maybe this will make more sense to you ?

Anonymous said...

@john
So I see...

@six
It isn't? Weird...
And yes, this one makes more sense :D

Foxhound said...

I was gonna comment on the first one, but seems a lot of people thought the exact same thing.

But yeah poetry can be a real pain to analyze and do so correctly.

mixedblessings89 said...

Jerry. You've been away for a very long time, dude... it is exams, right?
Good Luck.
:)

Jerry said...

@foxhound
Thanks for visiting.

@Dante
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@mixedblessings
Yes, exams! Back posting now :D