Poetry by Charles Bukowski
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it
takes
a lot of
desperation
dissatisfaction
and
disillusion
to
write
a
few
good
poems.
it's not
for
everybody
either to
write
it
or even to
read
it.
2006-12-13 12:51:57 · 8 answers · asked by forthursdaynight 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
(1) It proves that all you have to do to write a poem is to take a couple of statements and rewrite them, dividing them into lines. Really. It does.
(2) It helps if some of the words alliterate. Like desperation, dissatisfaction, and disillusion.
(3) It also proves that writing a poem does NOT require desperation, dissatisfaction and disillusion. Just lines. And alliteration.
(4) It makes me wonder how John Keats, Wm. Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Howard Nemerov, Ogden Nash, Allen Ginsberg, and Amy Clampitt would have answered your question? Or Charles Bukowski?
(5) It also makes me wonder whether those folks would agree with the statement, "It take a lot of desperation, dissatisfaction and disillusion to write a few good poems." Is it true of some of them? All of them? None of them?
Good question. Makes me wonder. Or maybe I should say
(6) Good poem. Makes me wonder.
(7)
To Bukowski
i'm
dissatisfied.
i'm
disillusioned.
but I ain't
desperate
yet.
is two out of three
enough,
do you
think?
i
wonder.
well,
maybe.
but I'm
dubious
still.
2006-12-13 15:07:19 · answer #1 · answered by bfrank 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
own favorite poet/author and that i had to pass reassess this poem. as much as I accept as true with the 1st individual's answer, i pass to assert i think of it incredibly is an remark on the 'human spirit', and how we as people have progressed slightly to plenty, because of the fact the cats contained in the poem are as he places it, 'plenty greater convenient'. good day! "i do no longer look after penal complex. they have the incorrect styles of bars in them." Charles Bukowski
2016-10-05 07:05:07 · answer #2 · answered by blumenkrantz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love Chuck, and the poem is good. I have a book by him, Run With the Hunted. Check it out.
2006-12-13 12:54:32 · answer #3 · answered by BB 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
bukowski is one of my favorite poets. He gets straight to the point and then rolls his huge fingers into the wound.
2006-12-13 12:55:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Doesn't seem like a poem to me. Seems more like a statement.
2006-12-13 12:54:16 · answer #5 · answered by Jaysangl 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's sad and depressing. Yuck.
2006-12-13 12:54:11 · answer #6 · answered by BILL 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
personally i don't like poetry.
2006-12-13 12:53:08 · answer #7 · answered by whiz 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it's good, but why are you using it?
2006-12-13 12:53:54 · answer #8 · answered by MadchenDeutsch 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋