I love how Jamie Kennedy incorporated Disney fairytales to the subject of matter “Grim Fairy Tale”. I thought the compassion he showed and the crescendo of his voice really heightened the feeling in the poem. The way he talked about his daughter especially showed how passionate he was of her. The performance in all was ace, topnotch, brilliant and all of the above. If I brought up another window but yet continued to listen to his voice, I could almost see the imagery he drew up from “hold onto your fantasies, like Frodo clutched onto his ring” and “unicorns put the holes into Swiss cheese”. In the first bit of the performance you can actually hear a couple people giggling, but then they stop once realizing this poem is profound, and not meant to be funny. I especially liked the last line, “but she makes me make believe to never let reality tell you what your imagination is worth” because it spoke volumes and volumes of double meaning and implications to me. I believe the poems message was really an indirect kind of idiom to his daughter, telling her to stay in her dream fairy tale world because the real world is actually a “Grim Fairy Tale”. To me, I heard it like a devoted father was speaking to his little princess. I could tell this was poetry the minute I heard the first line because he made a drastic pause, and continued on strongly pressing his words whilst every few second or two breathing for the next short verse. Also, much of the poem was structured on metaphors and similes.
This poem was awesome! I absolutely love it because it makes you remember the good old days where step mothers were evil, Ken was hot and where Neverland was the second star to the left. You could tell Jamie Kennedy had so much passion for what he was saying because the audience was so captivated the whole way through. I think the message was to live your life and to listen to your heart. His daughter believed that everything would be perfect, that "Barbie would always get a date" and I think when people grow older they start to become "practical" and they don't allow themselves to have fun or look on the bright side. Then they go and have kids and don't let their children hide behind fairy tales or they set up so many restrictions that the child never gets to grow and always comes back home to be safe. I noticed in the poem, that he always tells his daughter to "not look back", "to not leave a note" or to "just go". I think by doing that he is trying to make his daughter independent so she can make her own choices and by doing so, his daughter gives him confidence and advice. She makes him see the glass as half full rather than half empty. I definitely would say this is poetry. Its doodle and babble because when I watch the piece, his expressions are pure and heartfelt and when I don't watch but listen instead, I can see the Disney characters and Barbie and the whole fairytale kingdom. :)
I love how Jamie Kennedy incorporated Disney fairytales to the subject of matter “Grim Fairy Tale”. I thought the compassion he showed and the crescendo of his voice really heightened the feeling in the poem. The way he talked about his daughter especially showed how passionate he was of her. The performance in all was ace, topnotch, brilliant and all of the above. If I brought up another window but yet continued to listen to his voice, I could almost see the imagery he drew up from “hold onto your fantasies, like Frodo clutched onto his ring” and “unicorns put the holes into Swiss cheese”. In the first bit of the performance you can actually hear a couple people giggling, but then they stop once realizing this poem is profound, and not meant to be funny. I especially liked the last line, “but she makes me make believe to never let reality tell you what your imagination is worth” because it spoke volumes and volumes of double meaning and implications to me. I believe the poems message was really an indirect kind of idiom to his daughter, telling her to stay in her dream fairy tale world because the real world is actually a “Grim Fairy Tale”. To me, I heard it like a devoted father was speaking to his little princess. I could tell this was poetry the minute I heard the first line because he made a drastic pause, and continued on strongly pressing his words whilst every few second or two breathing for the next short verse. Also, much of the poem was structured on metaphors and similes.
ReplyDeleteThis poem was awesome! I absolutely love it because it makes you remember the good old days where step mothers were evil, Ken was hot and where Neverland was the second star to the left. You could tell Jamie Kennedy had so much passion for what he was saying because the audience was so captivated the whole way through.
ReplyDeleteI think the message was to live your life and to listen to your heart. His daughter believed that everything would be perfect, that "Barbie would always get a date" and I think when people grow older they start to become "practical" and they don't allow themselves to have fun or look on the bright side. Then they go and have kids and don't let their children hide behind fairy tales or they set up so many restrictions that the child never gets to grow and always comes back home to be safe. I noticed in the poem, that he always tells his daughter to "not look back", "to not leave a note" or to "just go". I think by doing that he is trying to make his daughter independent so she can make her own choices and by doing so, his daughter gives him confidence and advice. She makes him see the glass as half full rather than half empty.
I definitely would say this is poetry. Its doodle and babble because when I watch the piece, his expressions are pure and heartfelt and when I don't watch but listen instead, I can see the Disney characters and Barbie and the whole fairytale kingdom. :)