this is my favorite love poem...although it isn't really a poem I guess. It's an excerpt from the play Crave by Sarah Kane. It brought me to tears when I first listened/read it. Not to get mushy-gushy or anything, but this is how I describe love, whenever someone asks me. Also, any accent really gets to my heart. If you sit, and just listen, not even watch the video, but just listen so carefully, these actors make it come to life. The words themselves jump out, but when spoken it makes me almost shake it's so beautiful.
I got half way through the video and started thinking about the poem on paper. If it were broken down to a meter, the actors accentuate it to just that. Also, when spoken in words its curious to think about where the end stops and line breaks, enjambments and such would be. And once you listen to a part twice you can actually see the words on the page with dashes or appropriate punctuation so it really is a good example of how to put in perspective poetry and its techniques that reflect emotions and what not.
ReplyDeleteI like all the specific details in the poem. "I'll buy you presents you don't want." etc. My favorite parts are those that don't apply to all people, because somehow the specific makes it more human and the closer a poem gets to the heart of what it is to be human.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite love poems are:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5eAojSAcN8&feature=related
and
http://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2005/02/resignation-nikki-giovanni.html