Poetry can be found in many different forms, whether it is soft and sweet, spoken to music or yelled to an audience to get the point across. Occasionally when those poems are read “loudly” to an audience they typically have an extremely strong message their attempting to get across, which can be comedic or serious. Two poets in particular that use voice as well as wording to get their unique messages across are Beau Sia and Anis Mojgani. The two selected to deconstruct are Beau Sia’s ‘Asian Invasion’ and Anis Majgani’s ‘21 Thoughts of the Stereotype that all Brown People are Terrorists’. Both poets being passionate about their faith, backgrounds and race challenge their audience to laugh but pay attention that these guys are serious. Humor
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Although comedic, these poems hold great power to them, not allowing stereotypes to influence our opinions of people would most likely make this country a happier and safer place. Outside of these two specific poems, both poets have a large collection of other work. Beau Sia has a tendency to keep his tone the same, a ranting, yelling form, while Anis can take his poetry to a much softer sweeter side. Although I see his ranting as part of his personality, I feel like his rant could stem from a place of not being heard in real life. That he does feel underappreciated, and not valid. Another poem he writes is about him just wanting to be loved, this too could stem from an issue of not having much love and way of …show more content…
Though using comedy to get things across, each poet allows the poem to take them where they need to, letting it ebb and flow, and by the end coming to the conclusion they need. While sharing feelings about underrepresentation, depression, compensation, racism and stereotypes both poems convey important messages. The new form of poetry, contemporary poetry, is not your “stereotypical” long sonnets, filled with rhythms talking about the breeze and the trees. Contemporary poetry is like telling a story, there are no rules, you write what is on your heart, whether it be personal issues, emotions, politics or just something you heard while riding the bus. Anis Mojgani and Beau Sia are prime examples of
Although comedic, these poems hold great power to them, not allowing stereotypes to influence our opinions of people would most likely make this country a happier and safer place. Outside of these two specific poems, both poets have a large collection of other work. Beau Sia has a tendency to keep his tone the same, a ranting, yelling form, while Anis can take his poetry to a much softer sweeter side. Although I see his ranting as part of his personality, I feel like his rant could stem from a place of not being heard in real life. That he does feel underappreciated, and not valid. Another poem he writes is about him just wanting to be loved, this too could stem from an issue of not having much love and way of …show more content…
Though using comedy to get things across, each poet allows the poem to take them where they need to, letting it ebb and flow, and by the end coming to the conclusion they need. While sharing feelings about underrepresentation, depression, compensation, racism and stereotypes both poems convey important messages. The new form of poetry, contemporary poetry, is not your “stereotypical” long sonnets, filled with rhythms talking about the breeze and the trees. Contemporary poetry is like telling a story, there are no rules, you write what is on your heart, whether it be personal issues, emotions, politics or just something you heard while riding the bus. Anis Mojgani and Beau Sia are prime examples of