I Plead you to
Author function: Scribbler
Notion: knowledge, power,
love, life.
I look at the person in the mirror. I see that person is
myself. I look at myself, and my mind wanders while I talk to myself. About
power, about nature, about knowledge, about practice, about darts. I come to
think of a poem or I do not know if you could call it poem, but nonetheless a
series of words that follow each other and starts with the same four words: I
Plead you to. It goes something like this: I plead you to try, I plead you to
practice, I plead you to strive, I plead you to evolve, I plead you to achieve,
I plead you to think, I plead you to question, I plead you to challenge, I
plead you to contemplate, I plead you to grow, I plead you to feel, I plead you
to care, I plead you to worry, I plead you to listen, I plead you to love, I plead
you to live. I scribbled these words to myself because I saw an idol of mine
write something similar. I write stuff like this to better myself as a human
being and to grow and improve in everything I do.
Reflection
There is a poem in the bit I just scribbled together,
so if I had chosen the author function of a poet, then I would have focused
predominantly on the poem. I had made sure it would be set in the way a poem normally
is constructed. I would maybe also have chosen words that rhymed, in order to
achieve a proper rhyme scheme. I would also have focused on punctuations to
make it readable and also determine how it should be read aloud. I discarded
the poet function because I like the idea of how it came about. The poem as it
stands in my scribbling would look like this:
I plead you to
I plead you to try
I plead you to practice
I plead you to strive
I plead you to evolve
I plead you to achieve
I plead you to think
I plead you to question
I plead you to challenge
I plead you to contemplate
I plead you to grow
I plead you to feel
I plead you to care
I plead you to worry
I plead you to listen
I plead you to love
I plead you to live
It's interesting to read a text by a scribbler, as one doesn't get to see most folks' scribbles. What I'm saying is that that is a predominantly private author function, or at least the output of scribbling is usually never a finished text.
ReplyDeleteThe reflection makes an obviously true point about the formal appearance of the output of a poet author function being visually quite different than a text by a scribbler, which would tend to be amorphous, or perhaps shaped all according to the paper one scribbles on... However, I wonder if your poem really is a poem in all aspects. Formally it looks a bit like a list; and its function could also be said to mainly be persuasion, which is not typical of poetry.