02-14-2016, 09:47 PM
Yeah, don't keep up with social media much so it bypasses me. It's a problem of perception. When you're heavy into social media, you think everyone is. In psychology it's called a subculture blindness. That is you think everyone thinks this way and is aware of this stuff except a few people on the fringe, when the fringe is you. Albeit these days a large fringe, it is still a fringe of many different parts, many of which would not get your title. I don't generally participate in any social media, not because I am not hip enough, I just find it boring. I looked at chan4 the other day as it was suppose to be this great revolutionary site, and really it was just more of the same, mostly rehashed juvenile do-do jokes. I'm not saying there is not something good out there, but even on the sites that do offer some good things, they are still 90% bull shit as far as I can see. It's just the same old stuff re-packaged and if you're young enough, it seems fresh and new to you. I'm not casting aspersions, that's just been my experience.
" it's a personification of massacre, mass shootings, ect."
That's like saying it's a personification of a killing. "Death" can be personified, but killing cannot be. See the distinction? "Death" can be personified as the grim reaper. I do not see how one can personify "a massacre" like "a killing". Mass shootings might be personified visually in a comic book as a character with the name "Mass Shootings" with guns coming out from all directions, but I don't see how one can do that in a poem. I certainly don't think you did that in your poem if that was what the goal was. maybe you should rethink your goal in a way that allows you to use the medium to get across what it is you want to say. I wrote a poem about the Jaweed in Darfur, the mass murders and the raping of female children. I used the rat-a-tat-tat sound of the gun to equate to the insemination process of the rape, and then equated how both were blown up. Those who were killed and the young girls left with a child growing inside of them that they hated. Maybe that might give you an inroad to an idea about a way to proceed.
dale
" it's a personification of massacre, mass shootings, ect."
That's like saying it's a personification of a killing. "Death" can be personified, but killing cannot be. See the distinction? "Death" can be personified as the grim reaper. I do not see how one can personify "a massacre" like "a killing". Mass shootings might be personified visually in a comic book as a character with the name "Mass Shootings" with guns coming out from all directions, but I don't see how one can do that in a poem. I certainly don't think you did that in your poem if that was what the goal was. maybe you should rethink your goal in a way that allows you to use the medium to get across what it is you want to say. I wrote a poem about the Jaweed in Darfur, the mass murders and the raping of female children. I used the rat-a-tat-tat sound of the gun to equate to the insemination process of the rape, and then equated how both were blown up. Those who were killed and the young girls left with a child growing inside of them that they hated. Maybe that might give you an inroad to an idea about a way to proceed.
dale
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.