FelixOrion
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NeoGAF's Poetry Corner - #117: "Resist!"
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Theme: "Resist!"
Optional Secondary Objective: "Blues Poem"
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Enjoy some music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwBdKC4EwSs
Theme: "Resist!"
"The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character." - Arnold Schwarzenegger
"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage."- Friedrich Nietzsche
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear." - Mark Twain
"When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile." - Regina Brett
"This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance." - Philip K. Dick
Optional Secondary Objective: "Blues Poem"
Kevin Young said:One of the most popular forms of American poetry, the blues poem stems from the African American oral tradition and the musical tradition of the blues. A blues poem typically takes on themes such as struggle, despair, and sex. It often (but not necessarily) follows a form, in which a statement is made in the first line, a variation is given in the second line, and an ironic alternative is declared in the third line.
African-American writer Ralph Ellison said that although the blues are often about struggle and depression, they are also full of determination to overcome difficulty “through sheer toughness of spirit.” This resilience in the face of hardship is one of the hallmarks of the blues poem.
Some of the great blues poets include Sterling A. Brown, James Weldon Johnson, and Langston Hughes. The title poem of Hughes’ first book, The Weary Blues, is also an excellent example of a blues poem. It begins:
“Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,
Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon,
I heard a Negro play.Down on Lenox Avenue the other night
By the pale dull pallor of an old gas lightHe did a lazy sway..."
Another example is Brown’s poem “Riverbank Blues," which begins:
“A man git his feet set in a sticky mudbank,
A man git dis yellow water in his blood,
No need for hopin’, no need for doin’,
Muddy streams keep him fixed for good.”
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