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They don’t mean anything. There are a few theories about what dreams are doing. One suggested its the brain testing its synaptic connections in a random fashion which thus triggers memories, emotions etc and produces the weird dreams we have. Another suggests that its the half-shut (sleeping) down brain trying to process the memories of the day (which is why they’re sometimes incorporated into the dream) and in doing so produces the haphazard, bizarre images and stories we sometimes experience in the dream world.
I thought it was laboured and a bit tortuous, especially compared to the first one. OK, we understood Bella was upset the drippy emo Edward had left, we understand that the physical opposite to emo-boy, Jake ‘Trapezius’ Werewolf fancied Bella but she loved Emo-boy and couldn’t betray his memory. We all know that Emo’s fear of biting Bella is a euphemism for having sex with her, we understand the allure of the fear Bella has for Emo-ponce-she wants ‘it’ but like all good teenagers, it scares her and that somehow makes it even more alluring.
New Moon was definitely a young female teenager’s film and I’m reliably informed its the weakest of the books, so its my own fault for watching! I suppose it’ll hold up better when the next two films are complete and as part of a whole tetralogy but I was disappointed with the inelegant way it just hammered the same points home time and time again.
Why not just take a photograph, especially if ones style of painting is realism? This is assuming you’re painting something real. Alan Bean, the Apollo 12 lunar module pilot, tries to convey what it felt like to walk on the moon in his wonderful art and I can see the point in this because its an experience that we will never enjoy. He even has a painting called ‘That’s what it felt like to walk on the Moon’ shown at the bottom here which I think conveys the dream-like quality of experiencing anything momentous, with the spectral colours over his pressure suit. But don’t you think the photo itself is quite remarkable?
I live some distance from the Olympic Games site. I’m on this board for debate rather than just agreeing with everyone. That sometimes means suggesting the contrary opinion in order to elicit conversation. I’m playing devils advocate in the hope that something interesting will be said as a consequence. In the real world, people see me as the easy-going, easy-to-laugh, but on here I feel I should challenge others ideas :wink:
A cynical idealist? I am a scientist so maybe that’s where it comes from.
I’m glad you like my name, jen_jen. My avatar shows my real name-if you can read Japanese!
So the democratic process is bollocks?
That’s the tack I take actually kent f OBE. I tend to avoid poetry at all costs. But no one has addressed my original question yet.
We don’t know that for sure. Virtually everyone I know is either indifferent to, against the Olympics. If they had protested and said, “Look, we the people, don’t want this. Stop the bid and put the money into better schools, hospitals etc or we vote UKIP” then maybe it wouldn’t have-maybe.
To me its just disjointed fragments of sentences which often make no sense. I think this author is trying too hard to sound deep, but instead sounds like a 14 year old boy trying to impress a girl in his class with what he thinks is deep!
Is that a ‘Road Runner’ reference?
I’d like to see a life times philosophy in one verse, that can be understood, without ambiguity and differing interpretations by different people! Th reader sees what they want to see not always what the poet wanted them to see and that’s why I wonder what value poems are.
An eminent musicologist I know once told me that lyrics and poems are not the same thing since lyrics tend to be more literal than poems (there were many other differences too, but I can’t remember them!). Lyrics can be poetic but they’re not poems, and I’d posit, especially those of that soaring intellect and master of language, Robbie Williams :wink: Angels indeed…..
