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Originally Posted by Andrenekoi
^I'm pretty sure u just atacked my opinion with another opinion  |
If you want to go on and argue what poetry is, then by all means let us do so. What is poetry to you? If you call what Hikki writes "poetry", then poetry equals pretty words strung together that are all flash and empty of meaning or intelligent awareness. The song "Colors" is one such example. There is considerable craft involved in writing poetry that go beyond mere "opinion" (the argument of the lazy). It has objective, identifiable virtues.
Here's one line of poetry from "Colors":
"On the black and white of the chessboard, we met by chance"
Failure of logic. Misuse of metaphor. Hikki is comparing life as we know it to a chessboard, but then she introduces the idea of meeting by chance. Chess is not a game of chance but of strategic, conscious, and deliberate movements towards a foreseen goal. It is a game of the fate of its pieces as determined by its players. Someone may argue that Hikki is trying to subvert the prevailing idea that our lives are determined by fate, that we can move beyond the black and white demarcations of a chessboard but 1) there are no other lyrics in the song that say this was her intent, the line before actually reinforces that she just chose the metaphor "just because it's cute", and 2) the construction of this sentence (in English and Japanese) betrays her lack of skillful use of words.
The only reason she uses the image of a chessboard is because she wants to use "black and white" to conform to the title of the song and because the metaphor "life is a chessboard" (blatant cliche, it has been used so many times in literature) sounds pretty.