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Originally posted by Snurx
I did not get half of your post, is it the new poetic style? (BTW, it's dude)
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I "went gimmick" for a half an hour or so, and tried to put a song in each thread to match the title (here comes the sun, one bourbon, one scotch one beer, ...)
then i got to the thread title "snurx" and even google couldn't find any such song
so i wrote a poem instead.
then gave up cause gimmicking is too much work.
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Originally posted by Mirai
apart from the part where it explains you're a greedy bastard, yes.
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while it is clearly character-driven, it is not what we think of as 'greed' that drives the protaganist in this poem.
Clearly the "weed" in line three represents the pseudo-criminal subculture that this 'Snurx' person has become involved in. When others who have not gone down his road ask to join him, he declines with a knowing "smirk." Is this because he doesn't want to share his life with anyone? No. He has seen the dangers of his path, and his knowing smirk clearly shows that he knows that he could send these naive souls down that way, but through his life he has grown into a man that would never knowingly do that. You could then ask if he wished that he could change some of those decisions that led him down that path, but he wouldn't. Where he was made him what he is today, and of himself is proud.
Note the recurrance of the theme of knowledge throughout, because that is the true point. It is that experience that 'Snurx' knows, and hopefully these others will never know, that drives the plot.