Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Humalit blog about python in malle

Python in the mall was such a very weird poem because of how it was related to the urban legend of the Robinsons Snake. There were even videos in internet that somehow proved that it existed but despite the legend that it was related to, it was not the poems intention to really relate to the urban legend but it was the fact that it was symbolizing the malls themselves on how they act like a snake described in the urban legend. It was nice how it has come to that and I didn’t see the relationship of the urban legend to the malls. I was sure that the poem was for the urban legend only and has no relation to the anything else but as discussed in the class that there is a relation which I find interestingly enough. It was amazing how an urban legend was related to how the mall has an effect on people. Not in a physical aspect but in a psychological aspect. The unusual relation of the urban legend and the mall was very surprising at best because of usually; poems never relate it to urban legends. The urban legend was the catchy thing in the poem because a lot of people really believed that the snake existed. There was even the actress that believed it happened; which makes me wonder now if the urban legend was the inspiration to making the poem or was the poets real intention was to open the eyes of the people who go to malls. For the urban legend, I was really finding it weird because of so many versions of the legend that the snake was having a button that moved the floors, which makes a bit of a weird legend and the weird videos that are in the YouTube that shows the snake. That for me was totally weird and makes me feel bad on urban legends which are usually intriguing and interesting but this urban legend was something very unusual that you don’t have a second thought that whether the legend is true or not .The El chupacabra and the loch ness monster, big foot were much more believable than the story behind the legend of the snake that had a button that make floors move or the fact that this snake lays golden eggs which are so untrue and that it could be made into a comic than an urban legend.

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  1. I also thought at first that the poem is literally about the urban legend and I was surprised that it isn't :)

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