Clair’s Facebook poetry
Overview:
The following content was found on the internet website called Facebook. This website is extremely popular among college students. It is a social utility that connects you with the people around you. The poetry I found through this website comes out of an application where users can write their favorite quotes. I found that many people were using this space to display some of their own poetry or quotes.
Text 1
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life:
The longing for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Text 2:
Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.
Text 3
Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
Of children in famine, of victims tortured
And of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer.
Text 4
If you’re not living on the edge …you’re taking up too much room.
Text 5
All we have is here and now, and that’s why procrastination feels so right.
Function and Meaning
The web has become a way for people to come together all over the world and express themselves in numerous ways. Facebook, much like the well-known and much-used MySpace, has become a way for students to express themselves and share their lives with people in their community, school, or all over the world. The point of adding quotes and poetry to one’s profile is to show those you have chosen to view it who you are and what you stand for. It is also a way for students to share with friends funny things they have said or their friends have said in order to come together, laugh, and learn about each other’s lives. The purpose of using Facebook to post one’s poetry and quotes is that it gives students a place to share thoughts and feelings with people who are living in the same environment and who can relate to one another. Facebook is also becoming a way for students to advertise their artwork. Whether it is poetry, photography, or paintings, it is guaranteed to be viewed by a large audience. It is easy to see that the internet has become a large part of our lives. Through the web we have been able to connect in ways we never could before with people all over the world in seconds. With the use of programs such as Facebook one can connect with people and express oneself in countless ways.