Post by rebeccaki116 on May 31, 2013 20:17:11 GMT -5
"Lifestyles of the rich and the famous
They're always complaining
Always complaining
If money is such a problem
Well they got mansions
Think we should rob them" - Good Charlotte
Louis Gluck lived a sheltered life born and raised in the infamous New York. Daughter of an inventor, Louis had a privileged childhood. She had virtually everything she could ever desire at the tips of her fingers. However, a limitless material life, perhaps caged in her emotional prosperity. As the rich little city girl started to grow up, she began to realize how much her financially padded exterior juxtaposed with her emotionally shattered interior.
The young girl felt like she had no escape. After all, what did a perfect little rich girl have to worry about in life, nothing? Wrong. Louis became antagonized by herself, and could hardly stand to look at her reflection in the mirror because she did not want to be confronted with the face of failure. Not to mention her broken shell of a family was hanging on to sanity by the strand of a hair that had been ripped out in her parent’s last argument that had gone a little too far. Consequently, the perfect little rich girl started to see her exterior as a visual representation of how much she hated herself on the inside. In order to purge herself of the failed reflection that stared back at her, she would deprive herself of food and other necessary nutrients in an attempt to alter the failure. When she turned eighteen years old, Louis developed an eating disorder called anorexia nervosa from starving her body.
Seven years of intensive psychotherapy later, Louis Gluck needed a way to healthily express her self-loathing emotional state without mutilation. This is when she turned to poetry: an art form that allowed the young adult to relinquish the demons inside, without essentially killing herself. Poetry was her therapist, her escape from her geode of a life. As she became acquainted with her poetic self, Louis became known for her complex extended metaphors that hid under simple symbolism with everyday vocabulary. The way she writes her proms, gives an avid representation for the kind of person she is: simple wealthy girl that seems to have no issues that serves as a mask over the emotionally vacant survivor. For example, in her stream of Myth of ________ poems in one of her latest Pulitzer prize winning volumes of poetry, Averno, Gluck creates characters that appear to be protected from world’s harms through their innocence or overwhelming love from others, but in the end have to settle for the harsh truth of reality and inevitability of death. In the final lines of her 2006 poem, Myth of Devotion, Hades tries to shield his love Persephone from being hurt by telling her he loves her. However, because he knows that pain is loves deceitful companion “so he says in the end you’re dead, nothing can hurt you which seems to him a more promising beginning, more true”. Through this nihilistic perception of life, Gluck exemplifies her pessimism about life through her optimism about death almost as in a causal way of saying hey! Life sucks, but at least you can’t feel any pain when you’re already dead.
Because of her self-esteem issues as a child, Louis Gluck loathes the limelight. She almost does not think she deserves the praise she gets. After winning the American poetry laureate award, one of the most prestigious awards a poet can hope achieve, Gluck told The Boston Globe ''I have very little taste for public life in the way that they understand it. I didn't think I was the sort of person they'd ever look at”. But perhaps what Louis did not realize, according to journalist Andrew Johnston, is that when the literary world is so heavily interested by your poetry that you are elected as a laureate, they are not weighing the kind of character you have or example you lead but perhaps the multi-dimensional aspect to your poetry through exemplified by Louis’s strong emotional connection, nay emotional dependency that seeps through her work.
Poet, Louis Gluck is relevant in twenty first century America because she had a very traumatizing childhood that makes her poems more relatable to all types of classes within the nation. Everyone feels pain, from the garbage man who sits in the pile of other’s waste, to the award-winning actor who has a bipolar disorder and suffers an identity crisis from all the personalities he had played. No one is immune from pain no matter how rich. No one is too famous to be humble, and that is what Louis Gluck represents is trying to tell America.
They're always complaining
Always complaining
If money is such a problem
Well they got mansions
Think we should rob them" - Good Charlotte
Louis Gluck lived a sheltered life born and raised in the infamous New York. Daughter of an inventor, Louis had a privileged childhood. She had virtually everything she could ever desire at the tips of her fingers. However, a limitless material life, perhaps caged in her emotional prosperity. As the rich little city girl started to grow up, she began to realize how much her financially padded exterior juxtaposed with her emotionally shattered interior.
The young girl felt like she had no escape. After all, what did a perfect little rich girl have to worry about in life, nothing? Wrong. Louis became antagonized by herself, and could hardly stand to look at her reflection in the mirror because she did not want to be confronted with the face of failure. Not to mention her broken shell of a family was hanging on to sanity by the strand of a hair that had been ripped out in her parent’s last argument that had gone a little too far. Consequently, the perfect little rich girl started to see her exterior as a visual representation of how much she hated herself on the inside. In order to purge herself of the failed reflection that stared back at her, she would deprive herself of food and other necessary nutrients in an attempt to alter the failure. When she turned eighteen years old, Louis developed an eating disorder called anorexia nervosa from starving her body.
Seven years of intensive psychotherapy later, Louis Gluck needed a way to healthily express her self-loathing emotional state without mutilation. This is when she turned to poetry: an art form that allowed the young adult to relinquish the demons inside, without essentially killing herself. Poetry was her therapist, her escape from her geode of a life. As she became acquainted with her poetic self, Louis became known for her complex extended metaphors that hid under simple symbolism with everyday vocabulary. The way she writes her proms, gives an avid representation for the kind of person she is: simple wealthy girl that seems to have no issues that serves as a mask over the emotionally vacant survivor. For example, in her stream of Myth of ________ poems in one of her latest Pulitzer prize winning volumes of poetry, Averno, Gluck creates characters that appear to be protected from world’s harms through their innocence or overwhelming love from others, but in the end have to settle for the harsh truth of reality and inevitability of death. In the final lines of her 2006 poem, Myth of Devotion, Hades tries to shield his love Persephone from being hurt by telling her he loves her. However, because he knows that pain is loves deceitful companion “so he says in the end you’re dead, nothing can hurt you which seems to him a more promising beginning, more true”. Through this nihilistic perception of life, Gluck exemplifies her pessimism about life through her optimism about death almost as in a causal way of saying hey! Life sucks, but at least you can’t feel any pain when you’re already dead.
Because of her self-esteem issues as a child, Louis Gluck loathes the limelight. She almost does not think she deserves the praise she gets. After winning the American poetry laureate award, one of the most prestigious awards a poet can hope achieve, Gluck told The Boston Globe ''I have very little taste for public life in the way that they understand it. I didn't think I was the sort of person they'd ever look at”. But perhaps what Louis did not realize, according to journalist Andrew Johnston, is that when the literary world is so heavily interested by your poetry that you are elected as a laureate, they are not weighing the kind of character you have or example you lead but perhaps the multi-dimensional aspect to your poetry through exemplified by Louis’s strong emotional connection, nay emotional dependency that seeps through her work.
Poet, Louis Gluck is relevant in twenty first century America because she had a very traumatizing childhood that makes her poems more relatable to all types of classes within the nation. Everyone feels pain, from the garbage man who sits in the pile of other’s waste, to the award-winning actor who has a bipolar disorder and suffers an identity crisis from all the personalities he had played. No one is immune from pain no matter how rich. No one is too famous to be humble, and that is what Louis Gluck represents is trying to tell America.