09-21-2021, 03:03 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-21-2021, 03:04 PM by RiverNotch.)
Grade school was Southern Baptist -- memorizing the King James Version was part of the curriculum, and we had to sign hymns every week. Gave me a feel for it, but other than that, had to wait for High School,
where they made us read Shakespeare and I genuinely fell in love. Sonnets, Romeo and Juliet, and The Merchant of Venice chiefly. At the same time
I got into pop. Bjork really opened my eyes (my first posts here were attempts to, like, write like her. of course, while she's literate, she's far from the best writer, largely because she writes in a language she doesn't have full command of, even to just write a clean facebook post xD love her music still though), and then the Beatles, and then the rest is here.
Oh, and during High School, I fell in love -- as in, had a bunch of really powerful infatuations. A girl, a dream -- Whitman, Dickinson, Plath, Eliot, Gluck -- movies older than the 80s -- but, again, much of that's chronicled here xD
Right now I don't read and write enough poetry, but I still read and write as if what I read or write is poetry. One of poetry's central principles -- form and function matching each other so exactly -- that's something I've found is just, like, *fundamental*, in all kinds of art, even in all elements of life. If something isn't beautiful -- say, an iconoclastic Pentecostal church, or any ethical-political system that takes Rand seriously -- then it's shit xD
where they made us read Shakespeare and I genuinely fell in love. Sonnets, Romeo and Juliet, and The Merchant of Venice chiefly. At the same time
I got into pop. Bjork really opened my eyes (my first posts here were attempts to, like, write like her. of course, while she's literate, she's far from the best writer, largely because she writes in a language she doesn't have full command of, even to just write a clean facebook post xD love her music still though), and then the Beatles, and then the rest is here.
Oh, and during High School, I fell in love -- as in, had a bunch of really powerful infatuations. A girl, a dream -- Whitman, Dickinson, Plath, Eliot, Gluck -- movies older than the 80s -- but, again, much of that's chronicled here xD
Right now I don't read and write enough poetry, but I still read and write as if what I read or write is poetry. One of poetry's central principles -- form and function matching each other so exactly -- that's something I've found is just, like, *fundamental*, in all kinds of art, even in all elements of life. If something isn't beautiful -- say, an iconoclastic Pentecostal church, or any ethical-political system that takes Rand seriously -- then it's shit xD