Constantly+Risking+Absurdity

__**Constantly Risking Absurdity**__

 * By Lawrence Ferlinghetti**

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Born on March 24, 1919 in Yonkers, New York. After the attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II, he enlisted in the military and served as a naval officer. He helped spark the San Francisco literary renaissance during the 1950s. In 1953, he founded the City Lights Bookstore, where writers gathered together. He wrote plays, poems, fiction, criticisms, and other works. He believed that art should be accessible to everyone not just the educated.
 * || Example from text || Impact/Explanation ||
 * Theme || * "T o a high wire of his own making and balancing o n eyebeams."
 * ====="A little charleychaplin man who may or may not catch her fair eternal form." =====
 * "Constantly risking absurdity and death." || * Poets have to take risks in and order and persevere through their work in order to obtain their "Beauty" or write the poem they wanted as an outcome. ||
 * Imagery || * ====="Whenever he performs above the heads of his audience." =====
 *  "Balancing on eyebeams above a see of faces."
 * "Where Beauty stands and waits with gravity to start his death defying leap." || * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 1.5;">The image of an actual acrobat stepping onto a high wire is clearly displayed.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 1.5;">Readers can sense the danger for the "acrobat" or poet
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 1.5;">"Beauty" personifies what the poet hopes to accomplish with the poem. She represents what the poet hopes to write. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Meter || * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Free form and free verse || * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Gives the impression of an actual circus. The lines seem to almost swing a lot like the acrobat the narrator compares the poet to. It is also unusual and just as daring as the narrator is trying show that poets are. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Emotion || * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Unpredictable/dangerous || * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 1.5;"> There is no pattern in the breaks in lines or stanzas
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 1.5;">The danger in the acrobat's tricks create a tension ||

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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">"Lawrence Ferlinghetti Biography." //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Bio.com //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web. 01 Apr. 2014. =====