![]() ![]() The writers who have themselves gone through pain and turmoil can turn their pain into art and Bukowski was one such writer. Bukowski even has history of depression and I believe that this was one of the foremost reason of him becoming a better writer. All such tragic experiences are the reason of the sadness which this very poem and his other work contains. He earned so little so less that he could barely meet his ends. All his life Bukowski drank and travelled. He may have been kept into the darkness by so many people, he might have been unable to uncover the veils of the hypocrites. The entire poem reflects his own experiences with the society. The pessimistic view of the world at the very beginning of the poem may emerge from his memories of being raised in the aftermath of World War I, and living through World War, from being depressed since his youth and becoming a chronic alcoholic in order to be able to come to terms with his own life. These labelled average men and women have the hatred which is beyond average. He starts off by painting the real emotions hiding deep within an average man, claiming that the hatred a single soul carries, the violence in his bones is enough to supply any given army. The poem is a mixture of personification, allegory and symbolism written in free verse. It is a caution for his readers, a warning. He apprises his readers about the certain categories of people to be looked out when you’re in a crowd, for their hatred and detestation is profound, it can erode your very own identity away. They hide their true selves under the very façade of an “average man” and deceive the world. Bukowski warns the readers, telling them that such are the people who burn in their own inferno and play it cool. ![]() He unveils the “average” man, pointing out that a man, expected to be average amidst the souls he is present in, is more than just a mediocre. His poetry was always covered with ribbons of insanity, truth and darkness.īukowski’s “The Genius of the Crowd”, as I percieve, is packed with multiple ironies, warnings, triggers and the hypocrisy of the people. That is why his work always raised something inside his readers, whether be it emotions of disdain, discomfort or awe. All Charles Bukowski ever really wanted, as he writes, was to be left alone to drink, to bet on the horses and to write, ‘What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in and to be left alone’īukowski has always written about the grim realities of the society, the raw truths that people squint their eyes away from, the things people don’t want to talk about or least acknowledge. Despite what his critics might say, he never romanticised or idealised this life, he simply wrote it as he lived it. He wasn’t merely playing the part of the alcoholic writer he was living it. All Charles Bukowski ever really wanted, as he writes, was to be left alone to drink, to bet on the horses and to write, “What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in and to be left alone.”Īs the founder of Black Sparrow Press, John Martin, who was responsible for launching Bukowski’s career, explained that “he is not a mainstream author and he will never have a mainstream public.” He wasn’t merely playing the part of the alcoholic writer, he was living it. In the rush to file away Bukowski as a booze-addled fluke, his ability to lay down a truly beautiful line has often been overlooked. ![]() Some claim that his drunken persona is just an act, a show. Majority of the audience find his work disturbing and show lack of respect for it. His free verse writing diction and a drunken persona was highly criticized. He had his life bordered on insanity and death, the two most common themes in his works. ![]() This German-American poet’s life was blighted by poverty, alcohol abuse and problems with the opposite sex. Regardless of critics accusing his work to be barely even poetry, he is the man who occupies the most shelf space in bookstores of any American poet. In fact, he was miles away from that very word. Contrary to the fact that the latter part of the description is true, he cannot be considered as talentless. Poet and novelist Charles Bukowski is usually seen as a talentless and drunken vagabond. ![]()
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