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stunt_muppet) wrote2009-02-13 02:09 pm
stunt_muppet) wrote2009-02-13 02:09 pm
I'M BRILLIANT.
OH MY GOD OH MY GOD I THINK I GET IT.
"Have You Anything To Say In Your Defense" IS TOTALLY ABOUT AN ABSURDIST-EXISTENTIALIST TRIAL OF CHARACTER. LIKE THE ONE AT THE END OF THE STRANGER. Only the narrator didn't kill anyone, he just wrote really grim poetry. And he goes from trying to justify himself to realizing that none of his accusers can understand his alienation and existentialist crisis and thus starts talking in ambiguous and disconnected symbols, demonstrating how little any of them mean to him anymore.
OH MY GOD I'M A FREAKING GENIUS.
NOW I JUST HAVE TO MAKE THAT SOUND PRETTY BY 4:55 PM TODAY. SO I SHOULD PROBABLY GET OFF LJ.
*fistpump*
"Have You Anything To Say In Your Defense" IS TOTALLY ABOUT AN ABSURDIST-EXISTENTIALIST TRIAL OF CHARACTER. LIKE THE ONE AT THE END OF THE STRANGER. Only the narrator didn't kill anyone, he just wrote really grim poetry. And he goes from trying to justify himself to realizing that none of his accusers can understand his alienation and existentialist crisis and thus starts talking in ambiguous and disconnected symbols, demonstrating how little any of them mean to him anymore.
OH MY GOD I'M A FREAKING GENIUS.
NOW I JUST HAVE TO MAKE THAT SOUND PRETTY BY 4:55 PM TODAY. SO I SHOULD PROBABLY GET OFF LJ.
*fistpump*
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Ah. Here's the full translated text, if you like (http://physics.ucsc.edu/~leif/spanish/espergesia.html).
Thing is, once I started researching Vallejo, I found that this was actually one of his easier and more approachable poems. I am not looking forward to having to read the Trilce, but once I, ah, interrogated this text
with a nine-ironfor a couple of days and sort of figured out what it meant I actually came to like it.