Definition of a Poem

Explosions!, but seriously, I would say poems are any sort of writing that isn't prose. Prose as in, books, stories, ect. Although poems can be books or stories. For example The Odessy or the Iliad. But to get down to brass tacks, Poems take a whole different form of writing, instead of paragraphs, there are stanzas. In most Prose Stories, it is routinely clear and understandable, where with poetry the poems can often be vague and left open to interpretation. Poems can most often take a more artistic form, not saying that normal writing can't be artistic, its just that, when you picture the typical poet, you see the lonely, nonsocial guy, that you never really wanna hang out with unless your bored or lonely. Anyway, off that tangent, poems are just a, in my perspective, a more complex and difficult form of writing expression. I mean, anyone can just tell a story. I mean "the boy ate the sandwich". but in the form of a poem, its something crazy like, "staring down at the piece of white crisp wonder bread, spread to the teeth with a clear red goo, my parents called jelly, and rippling with a tan brown paste I adored (the peanut butter), I sank my teeth into the confection of grains, strawberry paste and peanut butter spread, i savored every bite as I devowered the delicious treat". I mean, I don't know about most people, but I guess I'm just to lazy to say all of that. Don't get me wrong I love detail, a poem in most cases can depict an event much better than most proses.

Now that I've explained somewhat my beliefs on poems, Who all has seen the new movie "No Country for Old Men". Now so far this year, is has only been a few weeks, this is by far the best film I've seen. Now I believe it it will be one of my favorites for a long time. Now first of all im a big movie buff. I watch movies, I like movies, And I'm pretty positive I can judge and critique movies fairly well. So back to my review, No Country for Old Men, is amazing. I mean, if you watch it there is something huge missing that I didn't catch till at least halfway thought the film. There is no back round music. None, I mean as far as i can remember i can not think of a movie that doesn't have any background music or sound. I mean, the director's use silence so well in this movie. This also adds to the suspense. Now in a world full of generic gorery horror films, I glad to see the art of suspense used and used well, which can in most cases, far exceed the scare of blood and guts. Now some people I have talked to who have actually seen the movie, don"t understand the title. (this is no real ruin to the movie you've seen it or not, but) the Title refers to how in our modern world, even the sharpest of "old people" cannot keep up with the problems of today. In essence, there is "No Country for Old Men". Now if you haven't seen the film, this isn't just some story about old people. In fact its more about fate. which most people missed when watching it. There are many circumstances where random events happen. Now I've heard people say "well why did this person die",or "why was this going on", its because its all up to fate. Thats the main point of this movie.