Poetry like whaaaat

[chaosjim]

So, Wanny keeps me writing. I feel really bad that we couldn't make her day better, but if it means she closed earlier, I'm sure there is some good in it for her. I hope? Well, I need to learn a lot, and I need to flex my brain. For the calc students in the audience, I need to learn Green's Theorem on my own. Fun. Times.

Poetry:

Statuesque

Comments

[irishangel17]

guess what...i taught myself green's theorem last year for my calc final...what now??? ooooo

hahaha, it's really not THHAATTT bad....i mean, i learned it...and that's saying something

a connotation analysis

[emocor]

I don't know if it was intentional, but all of the examples following "I am x" where x is an adjective are positive, connoting strength and resolution, except for apathetic. I assume most people would consider apathy toward science and innovation negative qualities.

Having both does good things toward pushing the image of complete unshakability, but having only one instance of a bad, or at least ambiguous qaulity could be interpreted as accidental. Additionally, since it's toward the end of the poem, it raises a question with the reader about whether or not a tone shift is coming-- which, depending on whether or not you want your twist foreshadowed, could be either good or bad.

So, yeah, was it intentional?

Re: a connotation analysis

[chaosjim]

I think that will prompt me to rearrange some things. Not enough negative/ambigious qualities come to mind for it to be more than simply a tone shift, but I'll keep thinking about it.

Sorry for the tardiness -

[dreary_dredg]

I meant to leave a comment a while ago, when I read this.

I'm enamored with that Shelley poem as well. I'm not familiar with the figure Ozymandias other'n his character in The Watchmen, but I love the way that the poem seems to capture perfectly in a single lens ephemeral and fleeting greatness. That our kingdoms can naturally, with time, be reduced to dust, empires diminished to silence and sand

Re: Sorry for the tardiness -

[chaosjim]

Yeah, I should get your # or something, mine is 201 874 2835. My phone is being a jerk about saving contacts however, so my ability to make calls is janky. I like your insight into my poem, it's getting an edit. I'm glad I checked my email today.

Cool -

[dreary_dredg]

My cellular telephone number is 9736680262.

And no problem, I'm hopelessly in love with
poetry and I love discussing it every chance
I get. And since you live like, ten minutes
by foot from my house, we could just hang out
and talk poems, if you want.