Comprehension Test

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    Comprehension Test
    If you can read this
    You are already a slave
    Flesh of signage codified
    A number in a box
    Intrusive usage traps tripped
    Disciplined by pendulum

    The community to inability
    Interpretation to misinformation
    Equally essential
    A desperate addiction
    No fervency endures it
    Engulfs a moment's potency

    Look me in the eye and tell me
    Sell the broken statuette
    Flip the static panic switch
    Sneak attack the tragic shift
    Face the structure, push the plunger
    Blow the place to bits.

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    UnworthyFather commented on Comprehension Test

    06-29-2009

    Great poem! I won't pretend to understand everything that you have portrayed here, but it left me with a feeling of my inadequacy. I loved the forced entrapment of the first two lines. Like a lamb being led to slaughter, I read on...until at the last, you challenge me to 'face the structure (the walls that inhibit our growth, whether in poetry, society, or life), push the plunger - Blow the place to bits'. I really enjoyed this, Adel. Great write. Terrific read. Thanks for sharing. 10 plus from me.
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    AdelKernan

    06/30/2009

    Actually Unworthy, I think you understood it perfectly well. A lot of what I write simply isn't intended to convey a concrete message, but this one is a little bit more purposeful than most. I could not have summarized my intentions better myself, THANK YOU!!!

    missval commented on Comprehension Test

    03-16-2009

    choice of expression is wonderful it truly surpasses a 10.
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    cousinsoren commented on Comprehension Test

    03-14-2009

    A virtue of impressionism is that the reader or critic hasn't got to interpret the mood as the artist sees or feels it, that is if he understands what the artist is seeing or feeling. The reader or critic is free to interpret as he himself or she herself sees or feels. "Comprehension Test" is a poem that "rotates or gravitates" between mpressionism and surrealism. In other words, Kernan relies heavily on surrealistic gimmicks to create mood.
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    cousinsoren commented on Comprehension Test

    03-14-2009

    (cousinsoren's commentary continued) Kernan in this poem, succeeds in crafting a rare and exquisite specimen of impressionistic art. He begins by daring the reader or critic to comprehend the poem."If you can read this /you are already a slave" Then he deliberately lures the reade or critic,"the slave", through a maze, a sort of "poetic muddle", an entrapment, Very clever. The reader or critic is left to disentangle himself-sort of finding himself out of the maze. "BLow the place to bits."
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    cousinsoren commented on Comprehension Test

    03-13-2009

    'If you can read this/ You are already a slave." "Look me in the weye and tell me" Adel Kernan in keeping with his literary and creative philosophy or religion, of what a poem ought to be, demonstrates very well in this poem hs poetic or literary genius. He claims that a poem ought to be a conglomerate of symbols and images so put together to create a mood, and no to convey a message. In this poem, he succeds in crafting a rare and exquisite example of impressionism. He begins by daring t
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    If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

    Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) American poet.

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