Deleuzean Villanelle

[Brownlie]

Edit:
A register of King Lear’s storm begins
It’s stirring dust upon a flattened plain.
And the Convection current spoken spins
               
As sheep in flock all form a common skin,
Like bleating gathered as a shattered chain,
A register of King Lear’s storm begins
 
and whirls by the monarch’s raging chin.
As sense is pouring droplets from his reign,
And the Convection current spoken spins
 
it briefly settles at the eye, within:
The template reincarnates in the brain,
A register of King Lear’s storm begins,
 
The coated flesh is molting Shakespeare’s skin,
The memories and madness both flash plain,
And the Convection current spoken spins
 
between the Geodon and foolish din
of measured  nonsense that refrains:
A register of King Lear’s storm begins,
And the Convection current spoken spins.



First Copy:
The register of hurricanoe spins.
It’s stirring dust upon a flattened plain.
A shift is singular and it begins.
 
As sheep in flock all form a common skin,
together, gathered as a shattered chain
The register of hurricanoe spins
 
and whirls by the mad king’s raging chin.
As sense is pouring droplets from his reign,
A shift is singular and it begins
 
To briefly settle at the eye, within:
The template reincarnates in the brain,
The register of hurricanoe spins,
 
The flesh coats in a molt of Shake-skin,
And memories and madness both flash plain.
A shift is singular and it begins
 
between the Geodon and foolish din
of measured  nonsense that refrains:
The register of hurricanoe spins,
A shift is singular and it begins.

I didn't set out to make it read schizophrenically, but that's what happened. Truly miscellaneous indeed.

[azure]

What is 'a molt of Shake-skin'? A shed of animal (maybe human) skin or feathers? All I can gather is this poem has something to do with madness, sheep skin, bipolar mania, and maybe I need to get my medication adjusted. I found it amusing but it seems very ambiguous and obscure from my limited perspective. As a manic depressive, any poem that deals in psychopharmaceuticals tickles me pink.  

[shemthepenman]

This is an interesting one. Though, apart from subtly referencing Deleuze, I am not sure how it i Deleuzean. but will have to think about it.

“a schizophrenic out for a walk is a better model than a neurotic lying on the analyst’s couch.”

[Brownlie]

Deleuze dealt with the liminal nature of sense and two types of nonsense (structured nonsense you would find in Carroll and nonsense that deteriorates into a total loss of meaning, or true madness). Deleuze also had the rhizome which deals with various nodes of deterritorialization, so theoretically it is not necessarily dependent on a linear order but centers around a core. (The metaphor is in a rhizome as opposed to a traditional root metaphor).  Deconstructionists deal with the in-between, and Deleuze has a three part register: the virtual (the idea which forms a template), Intensive (qualitative shifts), and the Actual (Individuations).(I'm iffy on this, but I believe shifts occur at a point of singularity but they do not necessarily mark a synchronic ossification.)Deleuze also draw from Bergeson's idea of difference which seems to be summed up the way we assimilate a flock of sheep into a whole. The hurricanoe is King Lear, an infamous madman in literature. The execution here, in my opinion, is suspect. For instance, the coherence is probably hindered by the refrains. Molt of Shake-skin = a temporary coating that results from dawning the works of Shakespeare. Pronouncing Shake-skin, however, may cause problems with the coherence.

[shemthepenman]

Deleuze dealt with the liminal nature of sense and two types of nonsense (structured nonsense you would find in Carroll and nonsense that deteriorates into a total loss of meaning, or true madness). Deleuze also had the rhizome which deals with various nodes of deterritorialization, so theoretically it is not necessarily dependent on a linear order but centers around a core. (The metaphor is in a rhizome as opposed to a traditional root metaphor).  Deconstructionists deal with the in-between, and Deleuze has a three part register: the virtual (the idea which forms a template), Intensive (qualitative shifts), and the Actual (Individuations).(I'm iffy on this, but I believe shifts occur at a point of singularity but they do not necessarily mark a synchronic ossification.)Deleuze also draw from Bergeson's idea of difference which seems to be summed up the way we assimilate a flock of sheep into a whole. The hurricanoe is King Lear, an infamous madman in literature. The execution here, in my opinion, is suspect. For instance, the coherence is probably hindered by the refrains. Molt of Shake-skin = a temporary coating that results from dawning the works of Shakespeare. Pronouncing Shake-skin, however, may cause problems with the coherence.

I see. very interesting, indeed.

sorry for such a short reply, but Deleuze, being my primary field of study at university and subject of three dissertations, has infested every philosophical thought I have had since that I begin to feel like a cancerous BwO at the mere thought of a discussion about it

[Brownlie]

Deleuze dealt with the liminal nature of sense and two types of nonsense (structured nonsense you would find in Carroll and nonsense that deteriorates into a total loss of meaning, or true madness). Deleuze also had the rhizome which deals with various nodes of deterritorialization, so theoretically it is not necessarily dependent on a linear order but centers around a core. (The metaphor is in a rhizome as opposed to a traditional root metaphor).  Deconstructionists deal with the in-between, and Deleuze has a three part register: the virtual (the idea which forms a template), Intensive (qualitative shifts), and the Actual (Individuations).(I'm iffy on this, but I believe shifts occur at a point of singularity but they do not necessarily mark a synchronic ossification.)Deleuze also draw from Bergeson's idea of difference which seems to be summed up the way we assimilate a flock of sheep into a whole. The hurricanoe is King Lear, an infamous madman in literature. The execution here, in my opinion, is suspect. For instance, the coherence is probably hindered by the refrains. Molt of Shake-skin = a temporary coating that results from dawning the works of Shakespeare. Pronouncing Shake-skin, however, may cause problems with the coherence.

I see. very interesting, indeed.

sorry for such a short reply, but Deleuze, being my primary field of study at university and subject of three dissertations, has infested every philosophical thought I have had since that I begin to feel like a cancerous BwO at the mere thought of a discussion about it

Well, to be honest, I don't know that much about it, but I thought it would be interesting in a villanelle. It's a nice change for me, compared to some of the enlightenment philosophy I've had to read. (I suppose its really classified as post-structuralism or postmodern as the BwO would suggest). In an ironic twist, the BwO is just another organ in the Norton Universe/corpus (from my view).