so you want to be a writer? | ||
| by Charles Bukowski | ||
if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it. if you have to sit for hours staring at your computer screen or hunched over your typewriter searching for words, don't do it. if you're doing it for money or fame, don't do it. if you're doing it because you want women in your bed, don't do it. if you have to sit there and rewrite it again and again, don't do it. if it's hard work just thinking about doing it, don't do it. if you're trying to write like somebody else, forget about it. if you have to wait for it to roar out of you, then wait patiently. if it never does roar out of you, do something else. if you first have to read it to your wife or your girlfriend or your boyfriend or your parents or to anybody at all, you're not ready. don't be like so many writers, don't be like so many thousands of people who call themselves writers, don't be dull and boring and pretentious, don't be consumed with self- love. the libraries of the world have yawned themselves to sleep over your kind. don't add to that. don't do it. unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don't do it. unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it. when it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you. there is no other way. and there never was. | ||
Friday, March 14, 2014
so you want to be a writer? - Mar. 13
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Part 1: in the poem so you want to be a writer by Charles Bukowski, the speaker of the poem is your own laziness telling you endlessly just to give up. The speaker is addressing anyone who has doubts about being a writer or to anyone who doesn't want to take their time to write. The setting of the poem is where you are in general. I know this because the poem says, "unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it". These four places come from yourself showing that the setting is you in general. This evidence also gives the idea of the setting meaning by showing that it is coming from your own decision. There was also personification in this poem. For example when it said, "the libraries of the world have yawned themselves to sleep over your kind." it is showing personification because libraries can't really yawn themselves to sleep. This gives the poem meaning because it is saying that you are too lazy enough to write that you have bored the libraries.
ReplyDeletePart 2: the title of this poem is so you want to be a writer by Charles Bukowski. The main idea of this poem was to explain that if you are too lazy to get up and thoroughly write a decent enough poem to become a writer you shouldn't do it at all. It is constantly saying don't do it all throughout the poem. This is not trying to suppress people's hopes; it is only trying to inform people that you shouldn't do it at all if you can't do it the right way. The mood of this poem is depressing because all throughout the poem it keeps saying don't do it if you can’t do it right. I think this because like I said the poem keeps saying don't do it. This conveys the mood because it gives proof that it is saddening. The tone of the poem is harsh because the writer is very deep in thought and anger. This conveys the tone of the poem because it shows the authors thought. The theme of the poem is supposed to be deep in thought because the author is explaining multiple reasons why you shouldn't become a writer. This conveys the idea of the poem by either giving motivation or sadness. In my opinion the intent of this poem is to overcome the author’s idea.
Part 3: overall, my opinion of this poem is ok because I didn't really like it but it made sense. I thought it was ok and other people might like it but I really don't. Anyways, in my eyes I didn't really like this poem. I wouldn't suggest it to others but I found it ok.