Video Review, “Poet | Robert Graves Interview | 1975” (YouTube)

Video Review, “Poet | Robert Graves Interview | 1975” (YouTube)

These gentlemen aren’t gentlemen.  In the entire video we see nothing but a general tease from those guys- interviewer and poet- who appear to be sulking in a kind of “you don’t know me” vibe.  So many prohibitions are expressed in their speech that no one can really wipe the dust off of anything with any vigor or strength due to the constant flow of irritations, dismissals, and passive gestures.  Americans like me need to know who Robert Graves was and this video, from its vanity and light of arrogance, doesn’t help us with comprehension for poetry; sometimes I think a poet who spends too much time writing about writing poetry doesn’t actually write poetry; instead, that “poet” is just a teasing guy who wants to use the poetry genre as an excuse to display hot tempers or even forced commonplaces onto others.  While Americans could mistakenly compete with each other on their rights while ignoring the virtues of prohibition, British citizens could mistakenly compete with each other on their prohibitions while ignoring the virtues of right.  When we take the genre of poetry and fill it up with nothing but either right or prohibition we dismiss the true colors and value of poetry and I’m not going to take this YouTube video lightly.  I remember the video very well.  Understanding things in our grasp of knowledge can take years of development if it ever occurs in a fellow human being.  A significant point Robert Graves makes on Thames Televisions through “Today” here is that the concept of heaven shouldn’t be taken too literally: it’s all about the human mind and how our ideas can just flow out there where we wouldn’t have to really worry as to seeing them or not.  In other words he believes heaven is a metaphor for our bliss of ignorance.  Hey, his tease throughout the entire interview speaks louder than words, especially when he chooses to use the simple vocabulary on the show that pretty much everyone can have.  I’m not sure if he’s only hiding his poetic formula for words but by failing to disclose important vitals to the interviewer’s questions we’re left with no one to ask on his important aspects of life.  How selfish is this poet!  Keeping all the secrets to yourself and not letting anyone else have them is pure business as usual.  But I think even on the business of poetry we can have some rights along with those typical, everyday prohibitions in vernacular.  What I’m saying is that Robert Graves in this video doesn’t answer my questions about him any more than I do. 

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