03/09/11

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1:35pm
Beautiful poetry

Plain was the same as it ever was the same
Plainly plain…
Samely same
But then, someone lit the flame
Plain rode away on lion’s mane
Where plain met fruits with strangely names
Such wonderful things they did contain
A shot of life to a hungry vein
The captive beast who broke the chain
And there, upon that fruited plane
Is where plain became what plain became
So much more than more than plain
Plain will never be the same

Even as a literature major, I recognize some people’s views that a lot of poem interpretation and the “poetry movement” is a bunch of stuck up BSing snobs talking about nothing.  But there are moments where a poem can just blow me away. 
Most times people are blown away by the visual descriptions in poems, or the interpretations that you can ‘massage’ out of a text, but it is not often that the way a poem sounds can blow you away. 
If you read this poem and didn’t listen or view the above video, you might find the poem beautiful.  But I find the beauty in this poem by how the words sound.  The alliteration and the phonetics of the words.  It is truly magical.

Oh, and, apparently, after reading up about this commercial and poem, there is no known author.  Meaning: it was probably written by a copy-writer or a marketing intern/freelancer for the PR company in charge of the FAGE USA account.

If that’s true, that guy needs an award.