You don’t have a computer, you don’t have a mobile phone, you insist on handwriting a collection of poems for ten years, and you are bitten by a dog the day before you plan to go to press. Once you think about it, you feel that your ten years have disappeared from the dog’s mouth in an instant...
remedy? Give the dog to others, let time smooth the sadness, or use tape to cover the scraps of paper on the floor one by one, and by the way, like an archaeologist, you can identify the past little by little by handwriting Poems that 'flow' out of my own writing. Or, treat all this as if it never happened, those poems are just sentences written on the water and just floated away along the water. ——"Patterson" is such a movie, this is what the protagonist Paterson said, and Jarmusch made it this way.
Paterson of Paterson City is a bus driver and a poet, or poet. Write poems before driving for work; write poems from what you hear in the car after driving; write poems in the basement study at home. In short, he is a poet who writes poems and can read them out one by one.
In all poems, Patterson is present, a person who gathers everything about people and things. His name is a city, and the name of a city is also him. The person decomposed by the common divisor. Reading the poem out, it's like showing an idea to others, but for Patterson, it's all 'Patterson' stuff, inscribed in the book of the week.
Patterson is a rich poet, and when he says he is rich, it does not mean that he has a very high level of thought, but that he has grasped a reciprocal relationship between objects and experiences in the city. Because when the poem is written on the water, when the brush touches the water, the ripples ripple across the entire lake. This connection with the entire lake means equivalence. The basis for writing poetry allows Patterson to perceive the gathering around him. Breadth of people: Black Raper who sings 'Black buddies are good guys' in the laundry room, twin girls who also write poetry and share it; A Japanese Stranger who came to Paterson through the collection of poems.
Said to be a wealthy equivalence relationship, but also because the shadow of poverty in the movie was dispelled. He did not have a mobile phone or a computer, but to all the people he met, Patterson had never been eager to hide himself and face the pretense. He has the courage to stop people who want to shoot suicide; in the face of the little girl's poems, he is serious about understanding. If you have to say that Patterson still wants to hide something, it is probably his attitude towards his own collection of poems, and he is willing to publish it after the repeated urging of his girlfriend... However, these cover-ups are not the attitude of outsiders. From the outside, it seems that he is in the To cover up, but actually, to write on water, also means that the poem flows through the waterways, like blood in 'Patterson'.
So what is Patterson's poem after? Are the poems he describes just life?
Perhaps it should be understood in this way that poetry can transcend the concept of time. The poems written by Patterson in the movie have rhythm, but this rhythm is not a kind of external sound, nor is it a regularity in the structure of the font and writing, but It is the touch of the idea of what things may possess, in order to preserve the preservation of the vitality of the poem itself. That is, every poem is no longer a poem determined by a purely external norm, and the concept of Paterson's poem is instantaneous, rather than limited to 'complete' and 'unfinished'.
Apart from the text itself, any questioning about Patterson's own ideas is that the erotic voyeuristic impulse in the psychological sense does not exist in poetry. But on the other hand, it does not mean that it is impossible for us to experience poetry beyond words, but it suggests a possibility. Like Patterson 'watching the match' and 'considering whether a fish is really better', do we also recall what we started from, like a conversation with a person.
If a poem as a text is written in a book, perhaps even the 'poetry' will eventually die. Eco said that 'the book and the fire' are a destiny that comes from birth. Poems ripped to shreds by dogs, fate turned into recognition by Patterson—those, but sentences written on water. It is also a poem without any hiding.
Poetry as art is not education, and you cannot expect to learn anything from poetry, but the corresponding reading of poetry needs education as the basis.
Poetry is irrelevant when faced with a critical moment of decision, but as in the story Patterson treats his poetry in an extremely personal way (somewhere between Kafka's stance of demanding the burning of manuscripts) , announcing the fact that if a person has never written a poem in his life, his concepts will not allow him to deal with what happens in a human manner when faced with a critical moment. Balzac seems to have expressed that every line of his novel is a poem, so his meaning is nothing more than the above.
So-called realism, when it doesn't understand what it means to write poetry, just pushes these writers further. To say that they are realist, it is rather to say that they are a kind of human nature, of a person who has written poetry.
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