Lit Comparison
Rhyming words, rhythmic actions, alliterative tone, and music in the mind's eye are all components of some descriptions of beautiful poetry. When the reader can imagine the setting or the scenario being described by the poet then the poet has made his or her mark by employing those components in the effort to transcend events the reader may not be familiar with. Many times the most difficult lyrics to comprehend, when it comes to poetic justice, are words strung together to describe an event or happening so far removed from the reader's experience that to conjure up the required images takes the most powerful words in the English language. So it must seem that Getting Hip to the Lights-Out Way is one such work. The author of this work evoked images that leave the reader with a disturbing feeling of having just read an event that will stay with the reader for quite some time. The image of poking one's eyes out to 'get hip to the lights out way' is one that likely does not sit comfortably with most individuals. Comparing the eyes out scenario to one written about the deaf might seem on the same wave length but as Oliver Sacks tells the story of deaf students fighting for a new president of their school a compl
Sacks penned his words in about 1987 while Slackjaw sang their prose in the early twenty first century. That is not enough of a time frame (from a general viewpoint) to constrain any thinking or writing to the degree that Slackjaw's words show. Sacks conveys a scene in the "Protest at Gallaudet" that is a lot different than putting one's eyes out. It is a statement of despair and desolation, whereas Sacks tells the world that (sign) is "a language equally suitable for making love or speeches, for flirtation or mathematics" (36). One can feel the blinding force of the words 'Lights out! Put a pen in your hand and poke your eyes out!" Comparing that form with Sacks relatively loquacious manner of writing is like comparing the color black with the color white. Grossman's poetry "invites both poetry's faithful and its doubters to hope that, though the winds may be rising, they are 'the winds of heaven (that) blow the great ship home" (Teicher, pg. Instead of a macabre scene of an axe to the eye, Sacks writes 'unrest, uncertainty and hope have been brewing (pg 236). At the same time his style in 'Protest' is to present both sides of the picture. This style is a much more effective method of garnering the reader's empathy. I would have to say that the longevity of the black words, thoughts, tone and style of Slackjaw's writings definitely leaves a somber mood with the reader, though I am not sure that it is effective or that it left me with the precise message that the author wished to portray. Getting Hip makes a case for taking extreme measures in order to deal with life with statements such as; "whole thing gets better when the world gets black". I had no such qualms with the words written by Sacks.
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