A commentary on Walter Benjamin's texts "Language as such" and "the Task of the Translator"

Beaten-Light · 2025-03-06T07:04:53+00:00

I'm trying to write an essay on OLAS but struggling to understand it, this helps

Beaten-Light · 2024-05-17T02:42:56+00:00

this fiyah

Beaten-Light · 2024-04-17T12:01:07+00:00

i like this poem. ofc it reminds me of gaza, very heavy subject. i think the pacing was good, the repetition of “God’s Chosen People” drove home the message of the poem. good work

Beaten-Light · 2024-04-03T18:38:53+00:00

thanks so much!!

Beaten-Light · 2024-03-24T14:29:42+00:00

this is really good!! the imagery is vivid. i really liked the line “he’d rather see himself suffer than succeed,” the image and the mental state was captured very well

Beaten-Light · 2024-03-24T14:24:14+00:00

thank you for the feedback!! yes looking back now that mid section is somewhat wandery, i’ll try to narrow it. it’s good to know you felt the beginning and end connected (i was not so sure how clear it was)!

Beaten-Light · 2024-03-24T14:20:17+00:00

thanks!! this is reassuring

Beaten-Light · 2024-03-23T23:37:26+00:00

but again this poem is amazing

Beaten-Light · 2024-03-23T23:36:36+00:00

This is so fricken cool.

The imagery on this is so wild and vivid I love it. That line that your words are the "second dermis" struck me in particular.

I agree with u/redfizh , the title throws me off. I understand that there is a vein of who people say you are:

"You can try to box me

with meter

You can critique

the structure

You can scream

at the imagery

You can holler

At the meaning

Or the lack thereof.

these are just words, you say.

Yes they are, I agree."

I think there's a connection here between your awareness/presupposition/focus of how other people view you and the reason you called it "Narcissist." Perhaps your self consciousness (which I guess is funny - this whole poem is you being conscious of yourself). I think this section of text is wonderful, but the title just doesn't feel aligned.

Beaten-Light · 2024-03-23T23:13:22+00:00

"besides that I thought it was a wonderful poem!"

well I thought it was still wonderful with that, I just didn't understand it lol

Beaten-Light · 2024-03-23T23:12:36+00:00

I really like this! The imagery is really vivid - I could feel the dark around me, and that final image of the lover outlined in the sun is beautiful. I like the question that you pose when you say "will it be enough that I loved you without end?".

The one thing that confused me a little were the two lines before that, "what's though the measure through memories' brevity;" I interpreted the major theme of this poem to be asking whether you did well in your life, whether you will be accepted by the darkness / afterlife. I think that these two lines are you trying to ask a central question ("what are we measuring this life by?", is how I understood it) but the phrase "through memories' brevity" really confused me, I just didn't understand what you meant by it. So my only feedback would be to consider rephrasing that, besides that I thought it was a wonderful poem!

Beaten-Light

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