POETRY.

[fuckrobertfrost.livejournal.com]

Okay guys, I want you to write some poetry about or by your characters. It can be stupid, short, long, rhyming, haiku, whatthefuckever.

Just this once, I will allow you to choose the wuss out option: you can use poems by other poets.

If you don't want to write poems, then name your favorite poets. Or write a screed about why you hate poetry — quite frankly I sympathize — anything, I don't care. This post is about poetry.

Posting this with the relevant account even though I dropped him. FIRST ONE TO POST ROBERT FROST GETS THEIR EYEBROWS SINGED OFF. no I'm kidding he is a fine poet and I greatly admire his diction sob

Comments

[sam-the-redhead.livejournal.com]

Edgar Allan Poe is my all-time favourite poet and NOT BECAUSE HE'S THE ONLY POET I KNOW, NOR IS IT BECAUSE I'M AN EMO WANNABE-DEEP-POET SLASH SONGWRITER CHICK WHO SLITS HER WRISTS WHILE WRITING SAD SAD WOE IS ME POETRY IN MY OWN BLOOD AND DRAW "INSPIRATION" FROM HIS GOTHIC POEMS WHILE LISTENING TO EVANESCENCE.

It's because I genuinely like his shit. Like. A lot. And I would totally write poetry about my characters but I am way, way too lazy. Too lazy to even use poems by other poets.

[exprophet.livejournal.com]

Well, he is a goddamn classic.

NO. NO LAZINESS. MAKE A HAIKU.

[sam-the-redhead.livejournal.com]

He is but I feel like saying he's my favourite makes it seem like I don't know about other poets out there because everyone knows about Poe.

FINE.

A wash-up sits and
starts reminiscing about
her past glory days.

AND FOR SHEGO

Red hair catches her
eye and she stops to wonder
if she needs to fight.

[exprophet.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I get that. And I always feel SO obligated to get as obscure as possible, without relegating myself to referencing some 13 year old in Wisconsin's rain poem. It's almost like people are with indie bands.

Well, I like both of those very much. Sally totally needs poetry written about her. Haha, I don't know why I feel that way. Maybe because I just see that era as so... not glamorous, but it was definitely something else, those times, and those women.

[sam-the-redhead.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it really is. I mean we had to pick poets to research in my AP English class and everyone was picking all these obscure poets and I was all "Edgar Allan Poe plz" and I got looks. I really don't get why you have to go obscure in order to seem like you're a high-and-mighty literary encyclopedia or...whatever. G_d I can't brain sentences and words today hhhhhhhh.

SHE REALLY DOES BUT MAYBE BECAUSE I'M BIASED AND LOVE HER. We're learning about that era in women's history and it...kind of sucked to be a woman like Sally during that time. It seems glamourous on the outside, what with all the women like Marylin Monroe and all those pretty black-and-white pictures of celebrities and everyone on tumblr being obsessed with that shit, but in reality...it kind of sucked being a woman. Once you were married...and lord help you if you were a woman and not married, that was...basically it. Especially if you retired and your time in the limelight kind of faded for you. The beginning of the end and you're stuck taking care of the house while your husband travels for work. It's lonely being a woman during that time. :/

[exprophet.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, yeah! I'm just like, ngl, I don't know very many poets and I only slowly accrue them as I'm accidentally exposed to their work... but against my will I am impressed by people who just toss out names I've never heard XD and reference them effortlessly.

Oh man, yeah. lmao tumblr And Sally seems to go against that so much but at the same time, you just can't escape that kind of thing and it did have such an incredible effect on her life, which in turn had such a strong effect on Laurie.

[sam-the-redhead.livejournal.com]

...yeah, you can't help but be impressed when someone references something you've never knew existed. X)

TUMBLR IS FULL OF PRETENTIOUS SHIT I KIND OF HATE IT AND LOVE IT. Not saying Sally's a rebel or anything, because she does conform to what society wants her to be (ie, I'm convinced Larry designed her costume or at least told her to dress that way because the press and everyone else loved it and all Sally wants is to be loved) but...she doesn't exactly like the hypocritical ideals of the society she's living in. She did not want to be a housewife, and especially doesn't want her daughter to be a housewife and fall into the same traps she did, which is why she pushed her into that superhero gig because she knew that if she hadn't fucked things up, it would have worked for her.

[exprophet.livejournal.com]

THEN I ZOOM TO GOOGLE.

Fhdjkhd yes I love tumblr, I icon the hell out of stuff I find there and I think people who don't visit tumblr are very impressed for some reason. IDK LOL o_o.

Ah, yeah, it's just kind of tragic, given that personality aspect you underlined, that she wants to be loved. Of all the people in Watchmen I was kind of happiest that she ended up happy.

[sam-the-redhead.livejournal.com]

WHAT WOULD WE DO WITHOUT GOOGLE MY G_D.

lmfao I collect all the fab .gifs on tumblr. I just can't get over how pretentious a lot of the popular noted pictures are.

Well, happy in the sense of Watchmen-happy. She's the last living, sane-ish member of the Minutemen and is off in California, far away from everything. She's wealthy too, getting fanmail from old fans, and her daughter shows up on her doorstep alive and in a healthy relationship with a nice man. And Laurie finally appreciates what her mother's been through. But in the end, Sally's still lonely, sitting around with all her memorabilia and photographs. ):

/SUCH A DOWNER BUT MAN HER KISSING THE PHOTOGRAPH IN THE END OF THE GN BREAKS MY HEART EVERY G_DDAMN TIME.

[out_of_time]

/high-fives fellow Poeperson

[sam-the-redhead.livejournal.com]

Awwwwuh yeaaaaah~

[tamerlane.livejournal.com]

/BRO-FISTING WITH APPROPRIATELY NAMED PERSONAL ACCOUNT.

[sam-the-redhead.livejournal.com]

I WAS ACTUALLY GOING TO WRITE MY ESSAY ON THAT POEM but it was too long /s-sob

[tamerlane.livejournal.com]

IT'S THE SADDEST. And also pretty long. Though I guess when you sit down to read it, in comparison to a short story it... isn't that long. But whatever.

WHAT DID YOU END UP WRITING YOUR ESSAY ON.

[sam-the-redhead.livejournal.com]

I THINK I DID IT ON.

OH CRAP UM. IF I HAD MY OLD COMPUTER I WOULD TOTALLY KNOW. um...Ulalume maybe? probably not but fuck I can't remember. o.o