Mary Poppins and Other Poems
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Another thing I like is going to the movies. Since I was a child I remember that my parents took me to a cinema that no longer exists in my city. Later, when I was a teenager, I remember collecting my allowance to go see my favorite actors, even if the films were bad. The magic of cinema caught me again and again, with each film, and I felt that it was one of those relationships that even if it leaves us without money, you don't want to end. Back to the future, Karate Kid, The Gremlins, Robocop, Ghostbusters, Dirty Dancing, Gost: The Shadow of Love and so many other blockbuster movies, but with bad reviews, became my favorites. Over time, I learned to appreciate good cinema and changed my favorite list, and made my list again: Dancing in the Dark, Blade Runner, The Shining, Cinema Paradiso, Gone with the Wind, Forrest Gump, among others, top the big list.
So when I got the book Mary Poppins (2014) and other poems, of the Venezuelan writer Sonia Chocrón gave me a lot of satisfaction and joy because I had in my hands a book that spoke of poetry and film. In this book of poems we are going to find different poems dedicated to different films. These poems speak not only of the film, the plot of each one of them, but also of the experience of the lyrical voice as a spectator, as a person who lives and suffers the cinema. Let us remember that this experience is subjective, individual and intimate and is a look with which we can agree or not. Let's review three poems.
I'd like to start with the poem entitled Purple Rose of Cairo. For those who know about cinema, and for those who don't, let's remember that this title alludes to a Woody Allen film, in which a woman tired of life and her loving relationship goes to the cinema to see a film and the central character leaves the film and enters the real world. This game between fiction and reality is perhaps one of the most striking resources. In the poem we can also see this idea:
If you could die several times,
if it were possible to rehearse terror and make it so common.
…
I'd adore death as if it were nothing more
the end of an infamous film.
The lights would be turned on and
the story restarting
-stubborn photogram-
again...
In this poem we see reflected the idea that if death were like a film, it would be more bearable, less sad. If death were an experience that could be lived over and over again, rehearsing it, knowing it by heart, would be more splendid and loved. To look at death as one looks at a film, from the outside, to know that what we see is unreal and that everything is fiction, false, would be an ideal. But we all know that neither death nor life is a film that is repeated daily. Death and life are real.
The next poem is entitled: Lo que el viento se llevó. In it we can find one of the most celebrated phrases of this story as it is: "Frankly, dear, I don't give a damn about that"; it also refers to the things we lose with time:
The wind has taken so many things away
…
An inconvenient love we couldn't crown
the smoothness of my mother's hands
the exact virginity
the jasmine that perfumed the foolish afternoons
…
The Age of Innocence
abbreviated.
This poem consists of a list of things, experiences, that have to do with youth, which we lose as time goes by. The idea that emphasizes the poetic voice in this text is that we do not remain intact before the world and we are changing at each stage. Even if we don't want to, time elapses and changes us and even deteriorates us.
Finally, I would like to leave you here, the shortest poem in the collection of poems entitled El país de las maravillas (Wonderland):
Let them cut off their heads!
for thinking
This poem of two simple verses, contains a great truth: To him who does not think, let them cut off his head. The phrase obviously comes from the Queen of Hearts, a character from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland adventures and Tim Burton's film, which is a monarch of bad temper that condemns people to have their heads cut off at the slightest offense. Note that the poem is titled Wonderland and we see that there is a quick irony in these words. I read and I don't know why I think of Venezuela, its citizens and politicians. I think of some people who don't think that although I don't think we should cut off their heads, at least fill them with ideas so that they aren't so hollow.
As you may have noticed, each of the poems that make up this beautiful collection of poems refers us to a film, an actor and even directors. There is a game of intertextuality between literature and cinema, between reader and spectator, between page and screen. At the end, not only do you close the book, but the lights go out and the well-known FIN appears on the screen.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE
Sonia Chocrón (2014). Mary Poppins and other poems. Common Place: Venezuela
Written by: @nancybriti
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Creative Environment then definitely that creative essence flows and in life that Creative touch is so important because we can build an expression which releases from any pain and burden. Poetry is so much powerful way to express. Stay blessed.@nancybriti, When we surrounded with
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That's right! Environments are important to promote creativity in people. Poetry is a balm for the soul: reading it and making it helps to elevate the best of us. Thank you for commenting, @chireerocks
Absolutely true words and welcome.
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Although I'm not a reader of poetry, I can appreciate it. I generally like poems with rhymes and loving themes. I also like cinema. What the wind took away is a favorite of mine. I think it's true, there are many things that are lost over time, even if we don't like to admit it. Life doesn't stay the same, it's changing. Thanks for this post, @adsactly
What the wind took away is a classic! It's one of my favorites. As for poetry, it's a genre rich in styles. The rhymed poetry is one of the most used and most popular. In particular, I like poetry with free and simple verses. Thank you for your comment.
Fascinating discovery. A book about poetry and memorable films. I'd love to read it. As a movie fan and a literature lover that would be the perfect combination of artistic artifacts.
The idea of life as a movie is somehow in communion with some of the sci--fi ideas of multiple realities. We die in a world but some version of us keeps licing in another. We turn right in this world and life will take a certan direction, while in another dimension we turn left or turn back and life with recreate a different story for us. I ike that idea.
There is a movie by young Gwyneth Paltrow (Sliding Door or Puertas Corredizas) that deals with that premise beautifully.
This is something we see on a daily basis
I'd say let those who do not use their brains lose their heads.
What would be the point of having one and not using it. That's what makes dictators strong, people's yielding of their power, brain power being the most powerful of all.
PD. yo no traduciría décima
That's right. That's right. I think the worst thing about this life is that you have the opportunity to think and don't think; to vote and don't vote; to change government and don't do it. The brain is decorated. So let them cut off his head so people know they don't think! Thank you for commenting, @hlezama.
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Toledana and La mala hora), but also because it's a significant relationship between poetry and cinema. Personally, I have also written poems based on films (published in Steemit) and that attracts me to this book.
Something I noticed the moment I read the book is that Chocrón does not recreate the film, but rather, from some element of it, creates the poem that speaks for itself. A very clear example of this is the one written from The Purple Rose of Cairo, where the lyrical voice reflects and imagines death, which in the film is an existential metaphor.
Thank you for bringing us that magnificent book of poetry from the cinema of Sonia Chocrón, @nancybriti. When I read it a few years ago, I really enjoyed it, not only because it's quality poetry (her previous books are Very good post, also pleasantly illustrated! Greetings, @nancybriti.
I was quite intrigued by the title... Personally, I've never liked Mary Poppins, but the other are priceless...
By the way, great choice of movies!
I'm with you on poetry, I read it and write it and understand its power.
I LOVE this mixing of poetry, cinema, spectator, character, immortality, thought...
the wind has taken so many things away
Excellent choices to illustrate for us.
Great read.