He just casually gave us like 20 gems. It’s the graceful intent of black poets that keeps oral history of our people going.
[Transcript:
Well, you know, the—the—the catch phrase, what that was all about, “the revolution will not be televised,” that was about the fact that the first change that takes place is in your mind. You have to change your mind before you change the way you live and the way you move. So when we said that the revolution will not be televised, we were saying that like… that—that—that the thing that’s going to change people… is something that no one will ever be able to capture on film. It will just be something that you see and all of a sudden you realise, “I’m on the wrong page,” or “I’m on the right page but I’m on the wrong note. And I’ve got to get in sync with everyone else to understand what is happening in this country.” But I think that the Black Americans have been the—the only real die-hard Americans here, because we’re the only ones who… who carried the process through the process, that everyone else has to sort of like… skip stages. We’re the ones who marched, we’re the ones who carried the bible, we’re the ones who carried the flag, we’re the ones who tried to go through the courts, and—and—and being born American didn't—didn’t seem to matter. Because we were born Americans but we still had to fight for what we were looking for. And we still had to go through those challenges and those processes.]
IF YOURE AN ENGLISH SPEAKER HERES SOMETHING YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW:
IN THE ORIGINAL ITALIAN, DANTE’S INFERNO RHYMES. THE ENTIRE THING.
THE ENTIRE DIVINE COMEDY RHYMES.
HEARING MY ITALIAN PROFESSOR READ THE FIRST CANTO OUT LOUD IN THE ORIGINAL ITALIAN WAS A FORMATIVE EXPERIENCE FOR ME.
I COULDNT UNDERSTAND A WORD OF WHAT WAS BEING SAID BUT EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THE ROOM WAS HIT WITH THE SUDDEN AND INTENSE FEELING THAT THE PERSON WHO WROTE THESE WORDS WAS A MASTER OF THEIR LANGUAGE.
IT IS FAIR TO CALL THE DIVINE COMEDY TRANSCENDANT IN ITS BEAUTY.
* not just rhyme its uhmm all lines have 11 syllabes and it rhymes like ABA BCB CDC etc etc etc for EVER very good
ITS A POETIC FORM CALLED TEZRA RIMA THAT IS FAMOUSLY DIFFICULT TO USE WELL
AND MOST ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS DO KEEP VERY CLOSE TO THE ORIGINAL 11 SYLLABLE METER
NEVERMIND POST CANCELLED
NOTES OF THIS POST:
50% AWESTRUCK ENGLISH SPEAKERS
40% BAFFLED ITALIANS
9% PEOPLE WHO DONT UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RHYME AND VERSE
1% HUMAN PET GUY
… are u telling me that English translations don’t follow the original rhyming
TRYING TO MAKE THE DIVINE COMEDY RHYME IN ENGLISH WOULD ABSOLUTELY BUTCHER IT
MOST ENGLISH POETRY IS BASED OFF ALLITERATION AND STRESS RHYTHMS BECAUSE ENGLISH IS A FRANKENSTIEN LANGUAGE WITH SO FEW RHYME GROUPS THAT RHYME OFTEN COMES OFF AS AWKWARD AND SING-SONGY
ITS WHY SHAKESPEARE IS SO IMPRESSIVE HE ROUTINELY MANAGED TO BEAT ENGLISH INTO SHAPE LONG ENOUGH TO RHYME FOR TEN WHOLE LINES WHILE MAKING IT SOUND PERFECTLY NATURAL
i’m not interested in anything anyone has to say abt terrorists breaking into the capitol if it doesn’t include race. don’t just call them trump supporters, don’t just call them right wingers, don’t just call them fascists and don’t imply the only reason they’re not getting shot dead and gassed like thousands of black protesters is because they’re trump supporters.
they’re white domestic terrorists. their whiteness lets them afford the privilege to strut past police and into the biggest government building in the entire country while holding rifles and machine guns. not their political ideology, their whiteness. say it all or shut the fuck up.
