|
By lauthiamkok
|
|
01 April 2008 |
"Why have not we an immortal soul? The little mermaid had asked
mournfully. I would give gladly all the hundreds of years that I have
to live, to be a human being only for one day, and to have the hope of
knowing the happiness of that glorious world above the stars."
*
I think we all are born with an immortal soul and could be genuinely
happy for three thousand years on this wonderful planet, like the
little mermaid at the bottom of the sea; but we are fond of the
illusive and transitory happiness on the land above the sea, craving
for love like the little mermaid wants from the prince.
Therefore, we are cursed with an eternal destiny: the loss of our gift
of immortality; plunged into the feeling of cutting by sharp knives on
every step; becoming the foam on the surface of the water; and we shall
never ever return to the sea down there that we should love.
|
Written by mia_ms_kim (997 comments posted) 1st April 2008 | hmmm... I hear you, Lau. We sacrifice our lives and cause ourselves all kinds of pain to grasp at the false glitters that promise much but finally don't deliver. Poignant, profound and sadly true. If only I knew at 20 what I know now!!! I like what you are saying and the way you are saying it.
But is this a form of poetry???? I always plead ignorance when it comes to poetry. I just know how to read. But if this is not a poem, then how would you categorise it?
Mia  |
Written by lauthiamkok (60 comments posted) 1st April 2008 | thanks Mia.
I think, something is just difficult to be categorised.
When people ask me, "is this a poetry?" My thinking answers and I say, "it depends on how we define a poetry." Then I piss off many poets including my poetry mentor from the arts council here! lol
"Poetry" is one of many art forms in our humanity. It evolves and changes like us - human beings. It is an organic being like humans.
I have noticed another poetry history that happened in Chinese literature. They had many type of poetry forms and strutures in thousand years back.
However, what I learn from that is, those structures and forms do not exist in moden Chinese poetry anymore. What exists now is a "language" closes to contemporary human Chinese language.
It is like the computer programming language that makes this web site, it has a structure and forms to build a web page. It evovles and changes in computer generations. Each time it changes, the language it evovles into, closer to our human language.
Lau
:-)
|
Written by Josie (2780 comments posted) 1st April 2008 | | Could I ask you the question: "Why do you NOT consider that this is prose?" Prose, is beautiful, prose can use poetic language. So why do you consider this as poetry and not prose, as I would say it is? No disrespect because I like prose and write quite often in the non fiction side myself. |
Written by lauthiamkok (60 comments posted) 1st April 2008 | Yes it could be considered as prose really. There is no section for posting prose on this website so I put it in poetry section...
"When people ask me, "is this a poetry?" My thinking answers and I say, "it depends on how we define a poetry." "
My reply to Mia is about this "prose" particular, but is rather about my writing in general.
I could not finish to write a proper/good reply to her and you right now, Josie, because i am rushing to write a reply to a list of question from a publish about my forthcoming book... so please accpet my apology for any grammar or conceptual mistakes here.
bye! |
Written by lauthiamkok (60 comments posted) 1st April 2008 | oppsss a mistake!
My reply to Mia is NOT about this "prose" particular, but is rather about my writing in general. |
Written by Josie (2780 comments posted) 1st April 2008 | | I would say that as it is a conversation with a Mermaid, which is, therefore, not factual (as mermaids don't exist in the real world) it would come under the heading of a story. It certainly is not what most English speaking people would class as poetry, but ask patterjack and Fellpony to look at it and tell you their opinions..I'm not being rude, but it is indeed a puzzle. |
Written by Fledermaus (3248 comments posted) 1st April 2008 | | Prose or poetry, who cares? It's a nice piece. It's great how you used the details of Andersen as metaphors. Could there be a message behind the Little Mermaid? If so, the Disney studios missed the point completely. |
Only registered users can rate and write comments.
Please login or register. Powered by AkoComment 2.0! |
Previous item
