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Look at the two pieces of poetry: "Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's law is wrong it learned to walk with
by pavelludiq 18y ago
Look at the two pieces of poetry:
"Did you hear about the rose that grew
from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong
it learned to walk with out having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping it's dreams,
it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete
when no one else ever cared."
and
"I see no changes all I see is racist faces
misplaced hate makes disgrace to races
We under I wonder what it takes to make this
one better place, let's erase the wasted
Take the evil out the people they'll be acting right
'cause both black and white is smokin' crack tonight
and only time we chill is when we kill each other
it takes skill to be real, time to heal each other"
there both from Tupac Shakur, but the first one is from the poem " the rose that grew from concrete" and the second one is from the song "Changes" The difference is that in the first one its just words put together with a meaning, they say something. But the second one i like more, because of the rime and the rhythm. The first one is written on paper and published to be read, but the second one is from a song, it has to conform to the rhythm of the song, the words are structured to fit with the music and the flow, the second one has structure and architecture and it has to be simple enough to fit with the music and the beat. Making the second one is harder and its more beautiful. When i see good code, for me that means that it follows the flow of the readers mind, the code just fits and does its job, no fancy magic stuff, just simplicity and beauty. It has to be easy to understand too.
- Agathos 18y agoI like the first one a lot better. You may have unintentionally supported the null hypothesis, that there's just no accounting for taste.
- pavelludiq 18y agoThe first one is good of course, but the idea is that i liked the structure and rhythm of the second one. If i was looking for poetic expressiveness i might rethink my choice. The idea of taste is that you look for something, and if you find it in an object, you like that object. If you are looking for strange symbolist metaphors in poetry, you don't look at realism poetry, you look at symbolism. And in PG's essay about taste he said that people just have a lot in common, so they are generally looking for the same stuff.