Comments on: Either/Or(r) http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/07/eitherorr/ A blog from the Poetry Foundation where contemporary poets debate classic and contemporary poetry from America and around the world. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:13:40 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Aaron Fagan http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/07/eitherorr/#comment-4551 Aaron Fagan Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:38:51 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=978#comment-4551 Speaking of surprises. The film Southland Tales wasn't given any serious consideration by poets as far as I can see. Did we miss the use of a 2008 presidential campaign ticket with Eliot/Frost as running mates? Surely that is fodder for some quality meditation? Or better yet, Justin Timberlake reciting a revision of "The Hollow Men" "This is the way the world ends / This is the way the world ends / This is the way the world ends / Not with a whimper but a bang." Or the several allusion's to "The Road Not Taken" a way of sloganeering? Richard Kelly has brought all of the promise and genius of Frost and Eliot and the Modernist era of poetry and put it to good use in the medium of film. This is the most incisive, bone-crushingly honest and hilarious satires the world has seen since Juvenal sticking it to the Roman Empire. Speaking of surprises. The film Southland Tales wasn’t given any serious consideration by poets as far as I can see. Did we miss the use of a 2008 presidential campaign ticket with Eliot/Frost as running mates? Surely that is fodder for some quality meditation? Or better yet, Justin Timberlake reciting a revision of “The Hollow Men” “This is the way the world ends / This is the way the world ends / This is the way the world ends / Not with a whimper but a bang.” Or the several allusion’s to “The Road Not Taken” a way of sloganeering? Richard Kelly has brought all of the promise and genius of Frost and Eliot and the Modernist era of poetry and put it to good use in the medium of film. This is the most incisive, bone-crushingly honest and hilarious satires the world has seen since Juvenal sticking it to the Roman Empire.

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