02-03-2016, 10:09 PM
I like to read, try to craft them myself, poems with multiple, sometimes contradictory, meanings;
ones that create cognitive dissonance. There is a certain emotional level, as well as intellectual,
that is hard to achieve in any other way. But you do limit your audience when you do this as many
people don't like this type of poem. (This "type" of poem can be written in any "style".)
I Saw I Dreamt Two Men - Rickey Laurentiis
I saw I dreamt
Two men hoisted hung up not American the rope
Not closed on their breathing
But this rope tied them spine to spine somehow
This poem didn't seem that much like one of those poems to me; maybe because I formed my opinion
too quickly. I thought it was about racism and that the two men were of different races.
One possible explication:
"I saw" - I realized , I came to a conclusion.
"I dreamt" - the vision that inspired the thoughts necessary realize
The rope is racism
"not American the rope" - racism is universal it's not confined to America, intrinsic to America or it's
not what America should stand for.
"Not closed on their breathing" - it's still possible to overcome it.
"But this rope tied them spine to spine" - racism doesn't imprison just one side, it imprisons both.
(Or maybe it's just a single man tied up and racism deludes us into thinking there are two.)
"somehow" - how has racism, an abstract, an illusion, managed to do this?
ones that create cognitive dissonance. There is a certain emotional level, as well as intellectual,
that is hard to achieve in any other way. But you do limit your audience when you do this as many
people don't like this type of poem. (This "type" of poem can be written in any "style".)
I Saw I Dreamt Two Men - Rickey Laurentiis
I saw I dreamt
Two men hoisted hung up not American the rope
Not closed on their breathing
But this rope tied them spine to spine somehow
This poem didn't seem that much like one of those poems to me; maybe because I formed my opinion
too quickly. I thought it was about racism and that the two men were of different races.
One possible explication:
"I saw" - I realized , I came to a conclusion.
"I dreamt" - the vision that inspired the thoughts necessary realize
The rope is racism
"not American the rope" - racism is universal it's not confined to America, intrinsic to America or it's
not what America should stand for.
"Not closed on their breathing" - it's still possible to overcome it.
"But this rope tied them spine to spine" - racism doesn't imprison just one side, it imprisons both.
(Or maybe it's just a single man tied up and racism deludes us into thinking there are two.)
"somehow" - how has racism, an abstract, an illusion, managed to do this?
a brightly colored fungus that grows in bark inclusions