Dream Song 36 John Berryman (from 77 Dream Songs 1964) The high ones die, die. They die The high ones die, die. They die. You look up and who's there? -Easy, easy, Mr Bones. I is on your side. I smell your grief. -I sent my grief away. I cannot care forever. With them all align & again I died and cried, and I have to live. -Now there you exaggerate, Sah. We hafta die. That is our 'pointed task. Love & die. -Yes; that makes sense. But what makes sense between, then? What if I roiling & babbling & braining, brood on why and just sat on the fence? -I doubts you did or do. De choice is lost. -It's fool's gold. But I go in for that. The boy & the bear looked at each other. Man all is tossed & lost with groin-wounds by the grand bulls, cat. William Falukner's where? (Frost being still around.)
@tombingus3984
Жыл бұрын
amazing how much more sense his poetry makes after a trip or two to "grippy-sock jail."
@williesweet8332
7 жыл бұрын
True gorgeous aching lyricism. Grateful.
@connordebruler3264
3 жыл бұрын
I enjoy poetry, even very dense poetry very much even though I am a blue-collar reader. I love Jim Harrison and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Yusef Kumunyakaa, Philip Lamantia, Ginsberg. I don't get Berryman. I want to but I don't get it. Is there anything I can do?
@getinthereson
3 жыл бұрын
@@connordebruler3264 Two things that are useful in helping to crack Berryman are: 1) understand that there are usually multiple ‘voices’ in each poem. The Dream Songs especially are dialogic and once you realise the lines are ‘in conversation’ with each other, rather than coming from one ‘voice’, it becomes a bit easier. 2) Berryman’s references are often inherently personal. This is an advantage and disadvantage to the reader. It’s an advantage because it doesn’t require an encyclopaedic knowledge of myths and literature and other wanky stuff to gleam some meaning. But it’s a disadvantage because they’re sometimes so personal that they’re impenetrable. So, the best way to deal with this is to read a commentary alongside the text. Haffenden’s ‘John Berryman: A Critical Commentary’ is good for this. Berryman is lauded because he is seen as the origin of confessional poetry, poetry that is inseparable from the poets personal life, (whether this is true or false is debatable, but it is generally acccepted) so understanding his personal life helps to understand the poems. Lastly, don’t stress over the ‘meaning’ too much. Try and enjoy the sounds and the music of the words. Try to visualise the images and follow the associations, meaning will come eventually because you are a meaning making machine!
@ChurlsBeardSmug
10 ай бұрын
One of the most heart-crushed and crushing songs. I feel every word.
@joshuaclaridge1991
4 ай бұрын
Grow up young John Berryman grow up.
@user-qk8er9jq4u
5 ай бұрын
So different to Frost's ploughboy poetry.. which I admit I do also like... but Berryman gets to you in different ways.
@liammcooper
5 ай бұрын
Easy Mr. Bones, I is on your side
@Krypton_0032
3 ай бұрын
Love & die
@joshuaclaridge1991
4 ай бұрын
Grow up John Berryman grow up.
@brian_nirvana
5 жыл бұрын
Berryman is sober?
@Markmywords803
2 жыл бұрын
Rarely
@khalifson
Жыл бұрын
@@Markmywords803 Terrors came to him
@suttree3233
Жыл бұрын
Something has been said for sobriety but not much.
@walterwally983
Жыл бұрын
I'm sure Berryman will be on the up and coming cancel list just after Homer and Mark Twain
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