08-26-2016, 10:12 AM
Ima go ahead and ignore the ego-fueled rant of a threadjack and "rules" and "reasons to write" and try to bring it back to the OP by looking at this
First you have to understand this, then you have to apply it by well, not applying it.
I just saw the perfect example of this quote in the past two days and its so crazy to me that I happened to log on pigpen and this discussion started and now I just so happen to have a platform to share my correlation with yall fellow thinkers. Talk about meant to be, but ok,
two days ago I watched the film No Country For Old Men. As most of you know, the title was taken from the Yeats poem, but there is nothing poetic about this movie (or so it seems). It's a great thriller, set in modern day Texas, full of guns and drug money and sheriffs and southern accents. This is the external, and its simple, easy to follow, easy to love.
But the ending is well, just random as hell. The last 5 minutes seems like a nonsense conversation between an unimportant character and his wife that had a total of 6 minutes screentime.
That was on the first watch. The title of the movie (and other little strange one-liners) made me watch it again though. And again, and again. I just finished watching the film for the fifth time less than twenty minutes ago, and it left me in tears, shaking out of pure fear of that which I did not understand, which I still dont understand, but have had a sliver of understanding bestowed upon me by another humans creation. That which is internal, which cant be communicated.
This movie is not simple, far from it. Yet at the very same time, it is.
And that my friends, is poetry.
By the way, if you havent seen the movie, watch it.
mike
(08-24-2016, 11:35 PM)milo Wrote: Poem are simple because life is simple.THIS right here is the truth. This is why this discussion turned into what it now is. Some people will just never be able to accept a statement like this, which is probably why there's not much poets in the world, and even fewer great poets.
Poems are complex because life is complex.
First you have to understand this, then you have to apply it by well, not applying it.
I just saw the perfect example of this quote in the past two days and its so crazy to me that I happened to log on pigpen and this discussion started and now I just so happen to have a platform to share my correlation with yall fellow thinkers. Talk about meant to be, but ok,
two days ago I watched the film No Country For Old Men. As most of you know, the title was taken from the Yeats poem, but there is nothing poetic about this movie (or so it seems). It's a great thriller, set in modern day Texas, full of guns and drug money and sheriffs and southern accents. This is the external, and its simple, easy to follow, easy to love.
But the ending is well, just random as hell. The last 5 minutes seems like a nonsense conversation between an unimportant character and his wife that had a total of 6 minutes screentime.
That was on the first watch. The title of the movie (and other little strange one-liners) made me watch it again though. And again, and again. I just finished watching the film for the fifth time less than twenty minutes ago, and it left me in tears, shaking out of pure fear of that which I did not understand, which I still dont understand, but have had a sliver of understanding bestowed upon me by another humans creation. That which is internal, which cant be communicated.
This movie is not simple, far from it. Yet at the very same time, it is.
And that my friends, is poetry.
By the way, if you havent seen the movie, watch it.
mike
Crit away