Tuesday, September 9, 2008

This and That

I’m working on my “Candy and Medicine” poem and having a bit of trouble with the candy part. Like Theo said, there will nearly always be medicine where there is candy. Usually my poems are anywhere from one line to twelve, so the length is a little strange to me, I feel like I’ve dragged out a point for too long or that my audience will tire of my writing after a dozen lines of nonsense, so I’m trying to make this poem more fluid. I tend to jump from thought to thought without a clear transition but I’m working on it.
On another tangent, it bothers me when I’m writing a poem and I have to pause for whatever reason and when I return to it, the mood I was in is gone and it’s quite evident in the work. On the other hand, “Kubla Khan” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an example of how poems that are never concluded can be extremely good. Taylor supposedly dreamed of Kubla Khan and then awoke and wrote it down as fast as he could but before he finished, he was called away and when he came back, the dream was gone from his mind so he couldn't finish it. That’s one of the coolest stories I have ever heard…
Indiana Jones 4 was pretty unexciting to me. Harrison Ford’s is still a beautiful man, though.

1 comment:

Theo Hummer said...

About the length minimum:

I certainly understand that some poems want to be shorter than 28 lines. 28 lines is, after all, two sonnets. So if you generally work better with shorter poems, feel free to hand in two or three shorter poems instead of one longer one for an assignment.

Best,
Theo