I had to replay this performance several times to grasp each meaning—in which there are so many that I haven’t quite done that yet—of Saul William’s “Coded Language”. He gave us his opinion on what the current generation should do—wake up. In my opinion, this poem is about how easily people like “Baldwin, Ginsberg, Kaufman, Lumumba, Ghandi…” and etc. (stanza 10) can make a change. He is telling the youth of today to find “Our music” because it “is our alchemy”; that youth today has the power to “uplift the consciousness of the entire f****** World”. In that, he believes the world can’t correct itself without action being done by the persons who were indeed “pre-sent” (stanza 11) to guide it to its right course. This is a poem. Not only does it have rhymes, but it has a rhythm that it follows in which its use of assonance, alliteration and puns adds to.
I had to replay this performance several times to grasp each meaning—in which there are so many that I haven’t quite done that yet—of Saul William’s “Coded Language”. He gave us his opinion on what the current generation should do—wake up. In my opinion, this poem is about how easily people like “Baldwin, Ginsberg, Kaufman, Lumumba, Ghandi…” and etc. (stanza 10) can make a change. He is telling the youth of today to find “Our music” because it “is our alchemy”; that youth today has the power to “uplift the consciousness of the entire f****** World”. In that, he believes the world can’t correct itself without action being done by the persons who were indeed “pre-sent” (stanza 11) to guide it to its right course.
ReplyDeleteThis is a poem. Not only does it have rhymes, but it has a rhythm that it follows in which its use of assonance, alliteration and puns adds to.