Monday, October 13, 2008
How poetry should be written
Continuing on today’s class discussion, I thought it was really interesting to read Manuel’s Bandeira’s “Poetics” and be able to compare his ideas with Marti and Dario. What I thought was really funny was that Bandeira was emphasizing the importance that a poem not have difficult words/allusions that one would have to look up. However, as I was reading Bandeira’s poem, I really didn’t understand the meaning of the words lyricism, raquitical, and syphilitical. Because I didn’t know these words, I was a bit distracted from being able to understand what he was trying to convey. What I like about Manuel Bandeira’s poem is that I pretty much agree with it. I think poetry should serve as for poets to easily convey their ideas to readers through a short form of writing. Bandeira states that he likes “the lyricism of the drunks”. In other words, drunks just go straight to the point when they speak, which is pretty much what Bandeira is saying all poetry should be. In contrast, Dario’s “I seek a form” sord of contradicts Bandeira’s thoughts on how poetry should be written. In this poem, Dario uses allusions and uses lots of symbols in order to convey his ideas. He does not go straight o the point, but instead he goes through this whole poem not being able to exactly describe the form his style wants to discover. Similar, Marti’s poem “The opposite of Ornate and Rhetorical poetry” states that poetry should be spontaneous or “natural”. Through this poem, Marti uses many natural imagery and he states that ideas should be symbolized with imagery. In other words, it is the opposite of what Bandeira states poetry should be.
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I also enjoyed Bandeira's poems and thought it interesting to compare his with Marti's and Dario's. I thought it was also interesting how Bandeira's poem "poetics" did not follow a typical or classic form. In my opinion, Bandeira does a better job of expressing his frustration with the confines of poetry by allowing his poem to have more of a fee verse. Whereas Dario and Marti, while still able to convey their frustration, put their poems into the confines they are supposedly frustrated at. When I have written poetry, or have attempted to, I find it is much easier to write within confines and rules but the meaning then results in sounding trite. Whereas if I can muster through the difficulty of that overwhelming freedom of writing about anything in any way, i find the poem sounds more raw and truthful then one that was squished into a format.
Although I agree with a number of points, I do think that Bandeira had some similarities to Marti and Dario. Bandeira, alike Marti and Dario, tried to break the norm of poetry and experiment with new techniques. Bandeira, Marti, and Dario all had the "freedom" of writing whatever they chose differing from Romanticist literature. In a sense, it seems that Bandeira furthers this "freedom" and break from the Romanticism that Marti and most notably Dario introduced. In his poem "Poetics", he prefers the "lyricism of madmen and drunks" indicating that he wants to see complete freedom of writing and even possibly more emotion in poetry in general.
I agree with you that Bandeira condemns conformity to the popularized technical aspects of poetry. I feel like he uses "political," "raquitical," and "syphilitical" in an attempt to mock rhyming and its absurdities. In the same way, I feel like he does not regard planned poetry--or "cautious," or "well-behaved,"-- as poetry; almost as if poetry that considers its consequences in its content isn't really poetry. This would lend itself to Bandeira's admiration of,"the lyricism of drunkards," since consequences are at the end of a drunk's priority list and,"bitter," honesty at the beginning. On the other hand, Dario 's poetry is more calculated and structured, like you said, leading to the feeling as though he's less honest to his emotions.
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