Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Chris Martin Blog Post thing

Chris Martin has his own unique style, the only poet that is somewhat similar to him is e.e. Cummings because of the way Martin formats his poems. In "The Science Fiction of Color" and "Recommence Everything" both include the image of the sun multiple times in the vast number of stanza's. In "Recommence Everything "Above our heads, today’s weather...Report calls for abundant...Sunshine as a man with a limp" and "Recommence everything just...Moments after it’s begun, the sun...Shines abundantly down". And "The Science Fiction of Color" says "The conductor howls, the dreaded Man sings Ain’t no Sunshine as the sunshine". I find this as some sort of metaphor for the sun bringing him joy even though it doesn't stay  out for too long, it still shows that it brightens up his day when it seems as if he should start everything over.  I also spy the common theme of time  is of the essence in the  Poem "Time" and  the poem "The Bubble" where Martin states the the sun is in one space, not moving, maybe as if time has stopped or time is not important to the person in the poem. I can't wait to see how he reads his own poems so that we can see what he thinks about why he writes stuff like this.

1 comment:

  1. You mentioned e. e. cummings and I agree about how Chris Martin seems similar him, since both of them write poems that act like a stream of consciousness. However, e. e. cummings feels more like the Lady Gaga of poetry because he never has a consistent format (his poem "r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r" is crazy).

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