Liverpool/Dublin Journal 2: A Curious Man Teaches Me Skepticism
I was in the People’s Museum in Manchester perusing the struggles of the people when, a older gentleman approaches our group. He had a younger companion accompanying him. This man sported a Carolina Panthers t-shirt. He was rather tall, and a distinctly British accent. Once he inserted himself into our conversation he proceeded to tell his life story, about how we worked for a time in Texas. He went on to describe how he wanted to enlist in the United States army but was rejected thus he joined the Queen 's guard. He stated that he worked for months in Manchester as an extra in a movie. He wove each story within the other, without making a clear closing for any. …show more content…
I’d call it the Bird and the Buffoon.
In the first stanza I’d describe in poetic fashion the juxtaposition of the historic exterior of the Central Library and the sleek design of the inside. There may contain quite a bit of enjambment to get the reader to feet the palatable excitement one gets as he/she enters and beholds this symbol. My Liverpool symbol. In this stanza the lines would be even mimicking the shelves upon shelves of books of every color, creed and subject. This stanza would describe in detail the physical fascination and intimidation one should have with this place.
Stanza two would describe the inhabitants of the Central Library. It focus on the fools who instead of drinking from the fountain of knowledge (aka book), shoot a crude version of intelligence into their veins in short bile biased bites. (This would be a slight exaggeration of Buzzfeed, Fox, and other angled newsfeeds that obsessed with what is happening now.) How in these hallowed halls these people line the library’s casem created by the holes in the middle of the floors with their dazed gaze, the screen’s reflection of the present, present on their face. They did not receive organic knowledge rather a form of regurgitation. I would explain, in a very poetic fashion of course, that this narrows their scope of understanding to the current struggles, but does not draw upon the past for solutions, or look and see what ripples these events with cause …show more content…
He/She can see the city that mirrors this symbol, for Liverpool also blends the past and the present. He/She can fully appreciate the modern and the antique coalescing. It would describe the awe this view inspires, the empowering sensation one gets when he/she can look out across all of Liverpool. One feels a warmth that he/she is unable to fully articulate. Here lies the parallel, knowledge places you at the precipice of change and makes you empowered, and as one stands on the building that embodies all of that, he/she feel tingles of the same
I was in the People’s Museum in Manchester perusing the struggles of the people when, a older gentleman approaches our group. He had a younger companion accompanying him. This man sported a Carolina Panthers t-shirt. He was rather tall, and a distinctly British accent. Once he inserted himself into our conversation he proceeded to tell his life story, about how we worked for a time in Texas. He went on to describe how he wanted to enlist in the United States army but was rejected thus he joined the Queen 's guard. He stated that he worked for months in Manchester as an extra in a movie. He wove each story within the other, without making a clear closing for any. …show more content…
I’d call it the Bird and the Buffoon.
In the first stanza I’d describe in poetic fashion the juxtaposition of the historic exterior of the Central Library and the sleek design of the inside. There may contain quite a bit of enjambment to get the reader to feet the palatable excitement one gets as he/she enters and beholds this symbol. My Liverpool symbol. In this stanza the lines would be even mimicking the shelves upon shelves of books of every color, creed and subject. This stanza would describe in detail the physical fascination and intimidation one should have with this place.
Stanza two would describe the inhabitants of the Central Library. It focus on the fools who instead of drinking from the fountain of knowledge (aka book), shoot a crude version of intelligence into their veins in short bile biased bites. (This would be a slight exaggeration of Buzzfeed, Fox, and other angled newsfeeds that obsessed with what is happening now.) How in these hallowed halls these people line the library’s casem created by the holes in the middle of the floors with their dazed gaze, the screen’s reflection of the present, present on their face. They did not receive organic knowledge rather a form of regurgitation. I would explain, in a very poetic fashion of course, that this narrows their scope of understanding to the current struggles, but does not draw upon the past for solutions, or look and see what ripples these events with cause …show more content…
He/She can see the city that mirrors this symbol, for Liverpool also blends the past and the present. He/She can fully appreciate the modern and the antique coalescing. It would describe the awe this view inspires, the empowering sensation one gets when he/she can look out across all of Liverpool. One feels a warmth that he/she is unable to fully articulate. Here lies the parallel, knowledge places you at the precipice of change and makes you empowered, and as one stands on the building that embodies all of that, he/she feel tingles of the same