Beethoven
by
James Shammas
(Age: 44)
copyright 05-10-2006
Age Rating: 10 to 127
Perhaps it was Tchaikovsky or Debussy
Who heard the Fifth as a bag of rattling nails,
A discordant display of endless entropy
Forecasting nothing more than the rabid
Thundering of the great titan's Ninth.
Maybe the classical phase wasn't ready
For the massive sweep of the Missa Solemnis
Or the weight of the wounding Hammerklavier.
Some have questioned his originality,
Hammering with the contrapuntal pomp
Of Sebastian Bach, gently mitigated
By the wistful curves of Mozartian melody
And the Haydn surprise of sonatas stooping.
(Jorge Luis Borges says no work is original,
That we each create the collective work,
And Bacon, that learning is remembering.)
I will eschew the rhyming critique,
The pallid philosophy and thumping thought;
For there is something born and elemental
In the sound of metal, of nine-inch nails,
Daggers and swords and blaring bugles,
Of the mind's crusades and archetypal wars:
There is the familiar longing, the expectant
Piercing, when one begins to bleed and sing.
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As a song writer I found your insight quite on point. I found myself recalling the great flick -CLOCKWORK ORANGE-and the ultra-violence surrounded by the glorious music of Beethoven. Thanks...Greg Kis
The more I read peoms on classical music, I guess that's what it's called, the more I want to listen, and although I have no idea if what you say is true about the people, I do know it's true about the facts, I love that word entropy, I love physics, and I do know that is a law which says, a problem will always get worse before it gets better, is that right. I probably totally miss the point of this poem and I am sorry, but I got excited that I saw something in there that I knew, I almost didn't comment but since nobody else has my comment can't be that bad. Right. I do love reading the way you write. It makes me feel like I am a part of somebody really important. Or at least a part of his work, or something, I don't know I'm getting fidgity, Great write, good job, thanks,
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