Comments on: Art 101: Hey Sean Penn, Who Wrote This?

By: darron

darron — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:02:52 +0000

not all poetry rhymes

By: blogagog

blogagog — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:48:59 +0000

Also, the poor guy can't even rhyme . His message may be accurate, but it would be better suited to prose if he's not going to bother to even attempt to rhyme. Geez, he sounds worse than Emily Dickinson does at rhyming, and she would have trouble making a rhyme out of the word 'no' and a prostitute.

By: blogagog

blogagog — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:42:10 +0000

Does Mr. Alvillar think we can't use google? The rest of the poem is revealed to anyone interested simply by putting the first line into a google search. Yahoo too, I expect.

By: Marko

Marko — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:28:50 +0000

You're channeling him! Like, wow, man! Can you channel Hugo?

By: sammybull

sammybull — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:57:08 +0000

Poetry by Sean Penn:
Spit, punch, kick
Kick, kick, kick,
Bleed your blood
Punch, punch, kick
Beg for mercy
I'm giving none
Strangle, spit, punch
Love, forgiveness, peace
Puppies and kittens

By: AndrewPrice

AndrewPrice — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:22:49 +0000

I agree — very perceptive. Unless this is irony, this poet has one sick view of the world.

And it does sound typically leftist. . . if not trollish. Take something someone clearly believes in deeply and accuse them of secretly being the opposite.

UNLESS, there is more context to show that the poet actually means: "those who are evil" cloak themselves "in that which is good." But right now, I don't know that I would read that in what is presented.

By: Hucbald

Hucbald — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:47:04 +0000

Yeah, I'm going to have to come down on your side here. As a composer who performs a lot of my own music, I'm constantly amazed by what people tell me they "hear" in what I wrote. 99.9% of the time it has NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO with what I intended to communicate, but I'm OK with that. In fact, I think it's cool that listeners can create their own little universes of experience in my music. I'm sure Beethoven didn't see that galaxies and constellations that fill my head when I listen to his late string quartets either.

By: Rob Chansky

Rob Chansky — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:12:15 +0000

Haha… to think when I first read the poem excerpt (but before I'd read the comments) I thought that 'best at war' was meant to be a *good* thing.. as in, kicking bad-guy rear end before he kicks some innocent's. Which is, y'know, what war is supposed to be about.

By: maatkare

maatkare — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:28:50 +0000

Why is it stupid? My point is there's no guarantee that the person _reading_ the poem will come away with the exact point the writer intended. What one person finds stirring another finds pretentious claptrap. It's in the eye of the beholder/reader. Poetry isn't a math problem with only one right answer.

By: Some Dude

Some Dude — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:14:23 +0000

That's the stupidest view of poetry I've ever read (not that you're the first to put it forth). Poems are written because their authors have something to say; they are not ambiguous or ambivalent exercises in confirmation bias.