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Alright, so one of the upcoming assessment tasks is a reflection for literature, which entails choosing two poems studied in the class and doing a personal reflection on their themes and how they resonated with me. This can be done in essay or creative form. Naturally, I'm mixing the two.
The theme I'm going for is immortality through literature, being remembered for your works. Stuff like 'Kubla Khan' and 'Ulysses' (the Tennyson one). I'll be doing an analysis about this theme and interjecting this analysis with lines from modern-day poems and songs to back up the thesis that the idea is still relevant in today's society. I will close the argument with a work of my own - and that's the bit that I'm about to post for critique. It's... well, an obvious title.
The Pursuit of Art
And she is apparent now
Made manifest to my subconscious
That dark lady we well know
Giving and taking, screaming
Bleeding words. And her voice is marble
To an artist’s ears.
Oh, she was a beautiful thing
But in her name was implicit an end
She whispers inspiration
And takes away time
Her siren song
Hallmark of the dying
Those before me
Were too weak to resist
But I am not the same.
I shall never pay.
Hands stained with the blood of genius,
I rise to continue the work.
This gift I have taken is a path to history
Undying I shall tear through its pages
And now (and now)
I live again
Each word a voice that cannot be silenced
I sought (I sought)
A moment in time
But now I have time I can claim so much more
My canvas is the mind
I paint in entropic light
Wisps of movement seamlessly
Into existential silence
When I find all that I seem is but a dream within a dream
When nature is revealed to be so much more close to obscene
Do not compare to a summer’s day but live a life in blighted grey
Life is there for you to take and seize the day for your own sake
From the moment that we are born
We begin the art of dying.
A life forsaken, us forlorn
It’s naught but the passage of time.
We are architects of our fate
Our endeavours can build wonders
Or horrors. To ask what await;
Fleeting life tear fate asunder.
A ghost’s love song written to apathy
Time itself seemed to drain into the void.
But we labour to seize eternity
The immortality with which we toyed.
We are almost there, preserved in the heart
A mark we claim through the pursuit of art.
And at the end, do we see the truth?
A hand from above, or nothing at all?
Be at peace with death, make it your friend
For we all die alone in the end.
Embrace the day. We are almost there.
We live for that moment
Of the perfect cadence.
Bear in mind that I'm referencing a lot of other literary works and themes, so ask if anything doesn't make sense.
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About immortality through literature, which sounds like a very interesting theme, an idea: why not make reference to authors where this is so true that they only became recognized post mortem, such as Herman Melville? Anyways good luck, and the theme seems pretty interesting.
As for your own creation, I don't think criticism helps, because you know, art and it being so subjectif :)
But this verses:
"And now (and now)
I live again
Each word a voice that cannot be silenced
I sought (I sought)
A moment in time
But now I have time I can claim so much more" wow man. That **** is beautiful.
Btw from Ulysses: "For always roaming with a hungry heart
Much have I seen and known" - Someone should use this in a guide to Bounty Hunter xD
Shakespearian sonnets to modernist writers like Woolf and Joyce.
Did someone call the master in literature and anything that means phylology? No Kappa.
Not sure if you're asignment is done already or if you still have time to work on it. But if you really want to combine the two, and add some wit to it, I can propose a couple things:
Make the thing rhyme. Yes, the stupidest advice ever. Of course not all modern poetry(or anything written in verses) rhymes at all, but hey, it's good exercice.
Make an acrostih (easily noticeable - or using a key for the reader) For example, one that would spell out the title of your work.
Do extra research. If you have/had any Theory of Literature classes, look up on some stuff. Should help greatly. If not, and you need some extra help with it, just ask. More than glad to help.
Did someone call the master in literature and anything that means phylology? No Kappa.
Not sure if you're asignment is done already or if you still have time to work on it. But if you really want to combine the two, and add some wit to it, I can propose a couple things:
Make the thing rhyme. Yes, the stupidest advice ever. Of course not all modern poetry(or anything written in verses) rhymes at all, but hey, it's good exercice.
Make an acrostih (easily noticeable - or using a key for the reader) For example, one that would spell out the title of your work.
Do extra research. If you have/had any Theory of Literature classes, look up on some stuff. Should help greatly. If not, and you need some extra help with it, just ask. More than glad to help.
Alright, still on that analytical reflection, does anyone know songs written in the past ~30 years that deal with the aforementioned concept of literary immortality? I've got 'Dead Boy's Poem' by Nightwish as a reference, and need maybe 2 or 3 more.
I expect there's a lot of rap about it but I don't know anything about inferior genres like that.
There are two kinds of people in the world; those who can count, and those who can't.
Eh... not really. It's immortality attained through your artistic creations being passed on through history. Stuff like what I posted, and the other song I found was Nightwish's 'Dead Boy's Poem'.
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