Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 220 class. The purpose of this site is two-fold: 1) to continue the conversations we start in class (or to start conversations before we get to class) and 2) to practice our writing/reading on a weekly basis in an informal forum.
Saturday, March 4, 2017
Why Poetry?
Why Poetry: A Partial Autobiography is a modest cry for attention. He places himself on a pedestal because he traps his demons inside public words. A simple act of art he turned into a battle cry of how he was the bullied kid who rose above his tormentors. He obviously felt like the black sheep afraid to be himself based on how others were afraid to be themselves. Let us congratulate him because he was able to take abuse as oppose to be abusive. In a way that deserves some praise for finding a creative outlet for his societal based oppression does not mean he is a better person than them just means he has a thicker veil than most. So the social norms proved to be out of his league and his resort was Poetry but at what extent and what line does he cross the line of "that life wasn't for me" to "obviously I chose a better path" because whether he sees it or not those people who he implies are depraved by themselves are the exact reason he chose to express himself. So he should give some sort of credit to those people. I mean without them he wouldn't have been able to achieve such a quiet level of ego.
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This is an interesting perspective, Felicia. I read it that the narrator thinks of HIMSELF as "depraved." He writes "My dark is rotting harmlessly / in my poetry" suggesting that rather than sublimate his darker impulses into violent action or sociopathic behavior, he channels it into art.
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