Poetry #1

This oddly deep and inspirational commercial for a company that sells jeans borrows it's poem from "The Laughing Heart" by Charles Bukowski

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It's easily considered ironic for a corporation to be using the poem because typically when we think of corporations and commercials in general, they (the commercials mostly) try to put us down so that we feel the need for their product, or put us up because we have their product either way its a type of manipulation from our own lives. As the first lines say "Your life is your life don't let it be clubbed into dank submission. Be on the watch."

The poem very much does reflect the reputation of Mr. Bukowski as I have read. This poem offers the profound thoughts of a poet along with a secret message to the 'people' of the things in life to beware of in a old wizard/samurai-warning-his-young-grasshopper kind of way.

And like any good student of the 21st century looking to answer their homework questions, I Googled it and looked through the first few links it showed me. First the easy to read, quick- but not always reliable websites (i.e. Wikipedia) for the bulk and small detail, then the more credible websites for the reassurance that the easy stuff was the right stuff (i.e. poetryfoundation.org & poets.org). As for the response to the irony of the poems user- I came up with that myself based of my own ideas of the world.