Unit 3 Poetry : Investigating an Idea try # 2

Is love just lust !?

Alright so I guess my first attempt to investigate on my topic was just an epic fail, but its okay there is always room for improvement. This time around I first began to look for poets who had already written poems about my topic,so I could compare and contrast with their opinions of love vs. lust. One of the poems which I found to be extremely expressive  and moulded my opinions about love vs. lust in to a poem was titled Confused.

I’m feeling so confused
I don’t know what to do
I know i really should
Just walk away from you to do this
Would break my heart
because than forever
We would be apart

You’re not mine
This i know
But it doesn’t stop
The feelings i have to grow

You’re more than
Just a friend to me
And in your heart
I wish i could be

I would love you
Till the end
On me you could
Always depend

What do i do
I wish i knew
Why can’t i just
Walk away from you

I am selfish
This i know
It’s just because
I want you so

So i say that
You don’t care
I make you mad
Pull out my hair

Are you tormented
Just like me
Do you also wish
It was meant to be

Do we meet
Do we dare
We have so much
We want to share

It is hard
But this i know
I really don’t want
To let you go

You have a life
That i can’t share
But how i wish
That i was there

To ease your stress
Let you know i care
Love you forever
And always be there

I know you feel
The same way too
So why are we
Feeling so blue

Why can’t we just
Give way to this lust
We have to do it
You know it’s a must

We both know
It would be wrong
But in each others
Arms we belong

Can we be strong
Can we abstain
I think not my dear
So the dilemma remains

We have to meet
We both know it’s true
So the where and the when
I’ll leave up to you

So don’t keep me waiting
You know i’m in a rush
To have you be near me
To feel your gentle touch

So untill we meet
We just carry on
Knowing these feelings
Will stay so strong

But i know that
When we meet
The passion will be
Ever so sweet

So don’t keep me waiting
Hurry along
In each others arms
We do belong

I hope that day is very near
Then we both will have
Memories to hold so dear

As I read the poem I felt like someone had just simply read my mind and made it in to a poem. The debate of love and lust is clear with in the poem. Then I began to think about how I could differentiate between the two topics when I start to write about my poems, so I began researching. The first article which I found helped me to define both love and lust, “love is a deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person,  a feeling of intense desire and attraction toward a person with whom one is disposed to make a pair; the emotion of sex and romance” and for lust “an intense longing, desire, or need, and unrestrained sexual craving.” These two are so closely linked that even if someone were just to read the definition they could confuse both desires and emotions to be the same, just like many young people do in reality.

The next website  I visited was specifically targeted at teens and young people, which I thought was perfect for my reasearch because that is the area i wanted to focus my work on. The website outline twelve sepcific reasons why certain feelings are love and not lust, ” Lust is purely physical with a need for gratification, and it is driven by hormones. Lust is short-term, and love is for the long haul.”

You have great compatibility. You are sincerely interested in what your partner says and can spend hours just talking.

You want to spend all of your time together, without the involvement of sex.

You see a future together and talk about it seriously. You begin to plan your lives together, including marriage, home, and family.

You introduce him/her to your family and all your friends with great pride, and it is very important to you that they like him/her.

You include your partner in all your plans and consult with him/her for advice on things.

You become more romantic. This is especially true of guys, as girls start out that way anyway. Guys will send flowers and notes, plan romantic evenings, and call just to say they missed you.

If someone says something unkind about your partner, you jump to their defense.

WE becomes more important than ME.

You want to know everything about him/her and you can accept both the good and not-so-good

You support each other’s interests and encourage them toward their goals

You have an intense feeling of caring for your partner and only want the best for him/her.

You want to spend your whole life together.

After reading these it was clear to me that this reasearch describes lust involves a sense of being selfish, and  is a physical emotion that we act upon in the “heat of the moment.” While love involves being mentally/emotionally attracted to someone not just physically and having the desire to create a foundation (relationship) with them. Yet many of us are bond to or have confused the two atleast once in our lifetimes, but thats alright. From the reasearch i can clearly say the statements i had made about society and the sensation of lust in my past post are very true.

Unit : Poetry Investigation : Creative Idea — SEXY!?

LOVE = LUST !? — Is love just lust ?

One of my favourite words in the world would most definitely have to be SEXY !,it can be a great compliment to hear but there are many people who do not feel it is appropriate because sexy jusat describes someone’s lust for another person. In school when we study poetry the name of one of the greatest poets of all time is bound to be brought up; William Shakespeare.  Many of Shakespeare’s works are based on one of the eminent feelings shared by many in the world; love. Love is such a strong feeling, but my question is love just an exaggeration of lust? Did Shakespeare’s poems about love derive from his sexual desires? Does attraction automatically mean love ?

It is a controversial question; most people would not dare to say that they loved because of lust, because of the fear of seeming shallow and getting looked down upon from others. However I cannot help but wonder if all the love poems I have read were written in response for the poet’s sexual frustration.  It is pleasant to read poems about love and how much the author is intrigued by the woman/man they are writing about, because it shows how much someone can be attracted to someone else just by being in their presence or even just looking at them. One of the greatest love stories and probably Shakespeare’s most popular plays is Romeo and Juliet, which presented the story of 2 people falling in love and their struggles to be with each other.  I feel like cliché stories like that create a strong impact on people and the perception of love,  they  believe as if anyone who ever has feelings for them or is attracted to them it automatically means they are in love with them.  Personally I do think lust has a part to play in love, because when you meet someone new and you do not know them all you see this how they look physically. A person could be have the greatest personality but not be so sexually attractive and I would say that most people would just walk by that person. In my opinion the word LOVE is overused, people do not understand that sometimes it’s just lust not love.

Unit 3 Investigation : Style of Poetry – Palindrome

As I was exploring some of the different types of poetry and how poets express their ideas and inspirations I came across a very unique and whimsical way of poetry writing; Palindrome poetry. By definition a palindrome is a word, phrase, sentence, or verse which is constructed in a way that the piece reads the same forward or backwards. The palindrome usually contains a central focal point from where it begins to read backwards. Palindrome stems from the Greek words palin which means again, and dromo, which means running when used as a compound the Greek meaning is running back again. Palindromes were created by the Ancient Greek poet Sotade , in the 3rd century BC. In fact, palindromes were once known as “Sotadic verses” , his palindromes were actually a factor in his death; he was thrown into the sea by King Ptolemy II, for insulting the king in one of his verses.

There are several ways to write palindrome poems, the three most popular ones are:

1. It can be read backwards, with the same words
2. It reads the same forwards and backwards by letter
3. Line palindrome, which reads forwards and backwards, by lines

 

I found this poetry style to be really creative and have an outline to it, most of the poems I have personally encountered are free verse and do not have any specific structure to it, Palindrome poems do. My first impression of this style of poetry was that it seems to tell a story I thought to compare it to the Elizabethan sonnet because that too has a clear structure to it and the poem is usually split in to 2 parts; the sestet and octa, where a problem is presented and then solved. Palindromes also have a particular place where the poem starts to read backwards and create a mirror image. While reading some of the examples of these poems I could visualize a mirror splitting the poem in half and mimicking it. It made me wonder if this style of poetry would be questioned by some people and regarded as extremely easy because most people would just think the author repeats the same words over and over again. I would really like to get some opinions about this style, maybe a class discussion.

Unit 3 : Investigating a Poet – Susan Holbrook

      During one of the past scavenger hunt investigations I came across a book titled Joy is so Exhausting which consisted of many different poems. The poems really stood out to me in a way that there was a certain sense of truth in them; I could hear the voice of the author speaking to me through the commonsensical lyrics. The words were efficient in portraying the message, it felt as if the author didn’t hold anything back and just poured her feelings and opinions on to the paper with a touch of humour in each piece, which made her work very entertaining to read.

       The author of these poems is Susan Holbrook; she is a poet, fiction writer, and professor, she teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Windsor. Her first publication was in a magazine called “FEH!” which was a journal of odious poetry her poem was about insects living it up in Vegas, written in dactylic hexameter. Her inspiration to actually begin writing poetry was John B. Lee a popular poet when she was about 20 years old, one of the books she recalls greatly was The Bad Philosophy of Good Cows  she was quoted saying “Poetry can be funny? There can be cows?! I was all for that.” The idea of poetry being a form of entertainment and humourous was even new to her. She then began to take creative writing classes at the University of Windsor. Her first book, misled, was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Stephen J. Stephensson Award. But my favourite work of hers would most definitely have to be Joy is so Exhausting and I believe it is the most popular; it expresses a journey of actually day to day life experiences. These are poems about things such as motherhood, breakups and chocolate. The results are clever and dizzying. As well, there is not a funnier found poem than ‘Insert’, which uses tampon directions as source material; her humour exposes the complexity of how the mind works in the midst of domestic pleasure and/or exhaustion. It takes an extremely strong writer to create poetry which can be humorous and is initiated from everyday situations. Her work made me wonder if I could write poetry about anything, I mean are the jokes I say to my friends poetry? Can I turn them in to poetry? I would really like to create a poem in a similar style to hers, maybe as one of my personal experiments !

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/in-other-words/susan-holbrook-poetsmart/article1367941/page3/

http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Holbrook.php

http://www.chbooks.com/biographies/susan-holbrook

Unit 3 : Canadain Lyric Poet Investigation – Elizabeth Bachinsky

Elizabeth Bachinsky is a young Canadian lyric poet whose poetry is known all over the world. Her works have appeared in literary journals, anthologies, and on film in Canada, the United States, France, Ireland, England, China, and Lebanon. Elizabeth has published three collections, Curio, Home of Sudden Service,  and God of Missed Connections which have been nominated for many awards. One of the most prestigious awards a poet/writer can be nominated for or receive is the Governor General’s Award, which Home of Sudden Servicewas nominated for. I personally have ready some of the poems in the book and they are simply amazing. the book has a few poems which are urban but then you would turn to the next page and the new poem is agrarian. She is currently living in Vancouver where she is an instructor of creative writing and Editor for Event magazine.

Elizabeth has been inspired by many other poets such as T. S. Eliot who is considered to be one of he most important English-language poet of the 20th century, she has also been influenced by is Lisa Robertson. Readers and critics find Elizabeth’s work to be intriguing and spunky, her poems have a sense of honesty and toughness to them. When I read some of her poems it would be as if she were in front of me talking and expressing her feelings and emotions.

 

 

http://elizabethbachinsky.blogspot.com/

http://www.writersunion.ca/ww_profile.asp?mem=306&L=B

Sound ideas investigation : Martin Luther King “I Hv Drm”

The ” I Have a Dream” speech by Martin Luther King is arguable the most influential speech ever made, it has inspired  many individuals. However this particular audio clip which has been edited and reformed into a completely new speech gives many artist a new outlook of the speech. As i clicked the play button i would have never thought this would be the sound I heard. The audio description is stated as “ The gaps between Dr. King’s words reverberate and the audience responds. We can’t remember the actual words anymore “, and it is literally that. The little stumbles and glitches made by Martin Luther King during his speech. As i do more of these investigations the outcome seems to surprise me every single time. i would never think to title a work like as art or even a full audio piece for that matter, it is merely just stumbling and stuttering. This particular piece reminded me about a book my teacher has previously told me about;Jordan Scott’s Blert, in which the entire book consists of words which the author tends to stutter on while reading. Works like these make me realize and actually inhale all the sound around us, and look at sound through a whole new perspective.

http://www.cliftonmeador.com/ihvdrm.htm

Sound Investigation: The World Forum of Acoustic Ecology.

The world forum of acoustic ecology is an international association of collective  organizations that share a common concern with the world’s soundscapes.They study acoustics, the aftermath  of sound effects and,  the science of sound all over the world, there are three in Europe, two in North America, one in Japan, and one in Australia. Prior to investigating this topic  I never knew this organization existed, but it is pleasing to know that such an organization does exist.What i learned from this investigation was the idea of studying the echoes and effects of certain sounds was considered an art, and these things can explain a lot about the sound created and the environment it was produced in. If someone was to  make sound in a large empty room the sound will seem louder and travel faster without anything to interfere with it and will last for a longer period of time, even if the original sound was soft and short. I could incorporate the idea of Acoustics in my writing by using sound references and metaphor to describe the situation in my writing, by listening and comprehending all the ignored sounds.