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follower of the child's crusade?
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THE world below the brine,
Forests at the bottom of the sea, the branches and leaves,
Sea-lettuce, vast lichens, strange flowers and seeds, the thick tangle openings, and pink turf,
Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white, and gold, the play of light through the water,
Dumb swimmers there among the rocks, coral, gluten, grass, rushes, and the aliment of the swimmers,
Sluggish existences grazing there suspended, or slowly crawling close to the bottom,
The sperm-whale at the surface blowing air and spray, or disporting with his flukes,
The leaden-eyed shark, the walrus, the turtle, the hairy sea-leopard, and the sting-ray,
Passions there, wars, pursuits, tribes, sight in those ocean-depths, breathing that thick-breathing air, as so many do,
The change thence to the sight here, and to the subtle air breathed by beings like us who walk this sphere,
The change onward from ours to that of beings who walk other spheres.
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Well, I'll think a while about which means more to be about my life - and let you know.
But poetry is personal, the only poet I have ever read and enjoyed is Philip Larkin, but many rap songs have affected me emotionally.
The appreciation of art is mostly subjective. There are millions of people who listen to rap music, far fewer today reading this character you call "Walt Whitman". So is rap better because it is more popular?
What is the criteria to judge by? Grammatical correctness? Popularity? Or just what each person thinks and feels?
The fact is that rap does represent, whatever colour the people are, the working classes, the youth - perhaps when one is in a position like you where you plan to send your children to private school and so on, it is harder to identify?
My original point was not entirely a joke... what DO you know about boiling a kettle for a bath? This music represents an entire generation that the middle class and well off and the establishment like you do not even know exists.
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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."
The Gospel of Thomas
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