The Scream ( Senryu)

by BOB GALLO   Mar 21, 2022


The Scream (1893) by Edvard Munch

He realized there
are not many who listen
so, he painted it.

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  • 2 years ago

    by Everlasting

    Oops, I just re-read my first comment.

    I didn’t write a word that was important in here:

    “ If I put myself in the shoes of that man, i can hear everything but when everyone speaks at the same time, it’s hard to listen. I can feel him asking for help. I can feel the man “VOICELESSLY” screaming it’s inability to understand what each and everything is saying”

    In other words, I felt him keep it in inside. He going almost Mad from all the sounds like not wanting to listen. That’s where I felt the frustration.

    Anyways, this poem of yours have been a good learning experience.

  • 2 years ago

    by BOB GALLO

    You know now I can psychoanalyze both of us based on the answers we have provided here. Some kind of profiling. I can say you are not radical at all, you are goal oriented rather than the truth oriented. But you have a great respect for the truth. but your respect has limit. There are some distances that you would not go.
    I apologize for my worthless analysis. I hope you see them as. what they are: friendly gestures, rather than intrusion.

    Edited
    Another profiling is:; the description of wisdom does not always include avoiding the obvious . Obvious is the key has been given to us to search for the real meaning. A seer sees everything we see, but she/he has the set of eyes that recognizes which side of the observed connects to the quiddity, This is always the case. There are always a things we observe (phenomenas)that would take us there.
    Me and you try to turn away looking at the obvious, exactly opposite to them (seers), to imitate the result, assuming a higher meaning. And that is normal. But a bad habit for a seeker, if we are one.

  • 2 years ago

    by BOB GALLO

    I see the two guys according to the description were, his friends .You must have read about it because in the picture, there are no indications.
    Specially in this faceless kind of arts, the faces are not as accurate and vivid as classical ones, with all their curious expressions, carved deep into the face modes. Nowadays they are like faceless, and if there are faces, they are like the exaggeration of expressions, instead of the vivid depiction of them. But the exaggeration on the expression even though make the painting, or drawing, look less unprofessional than the classical ones, but it opens the door to speak purely expressional and use the medium of the vivid flash the least possible, dealing only with the motions and souls.

    • 2 years ago

      by Everlasting

      “ You must have read about it because in the picture, there are no indications.”

      ^ yup, I read about it after I wrote my first comment. I initially thought those men were passing by. When I imagine it years ago - as an alien, i thought the man was screaming. When I saw it again after posting the first comment, I thought the man was hearing everything scream. The reason why I thought that was the case, it’s because of the scenery - the wiggly lines (or the extreme curves) and the man covering his ears. I couldn’t “see” him scream. The wiggly lines are not coming out from his mouth. If he was screaming then the wiggly extreme lines would come from the mouth and somehow extend all the way to the sky and water… you know? Like the scream dispersing through the environment.

      I then read the links and it somehow made more sense. I still don’t know what the truth is.

      “but your respect has limit”

      ^its good to learn limits. I believe that knowing our limits can allow for growth. On some occasions it’s not too bad to push out of our limits but it depends on the situation, on the circumstances. I respect the “truth” but I know that there’s really no way to truly know the truth. Even when I think I know it, I do not. Our ignorance seem to be infinite. I try to thread with caution. There’s already too much suffering in the world. It’s not fair to cause more pain even if it’s unintentionally. Currently, my main objective is to understand. It’s a learning process where I also have to unlearn what I learnt. It’s not easy.

      Also, I don’t mind the psychoanalysis. I think we are constantly changing. I hope that the change is for the “better” (improve) for myself and everyone around me… overall.

      Thank you

  • 2 years ago

    by BOB GALLO

    I do not see that. The guys behind him are only pedestrians.
    There must be some document to read about this. I think the scenery, red sky and extreme curves are the indication of turbulence or at-least a severe melancholic dream . Look, look at his eyes. His eyes are the most devastating expression of horror, the yearning to scream, the alienation imprisonment.

    By the way I added something to my last comment. I think you did not see. Not bad to read.

    • 2 years ago

      by Everlasting

      https://smarthistory.org/munch-the-scream/

      If I find any other links, I’ll share them.

    • 2 years ago

      by Everlasting

      https://theamericanreader.com/the-great-scream-in-nature-edvard-munch-at-moma/

      That’s another one

  • 2 years ago

    by BOB GALLO

    "So, he painted it
    and realized there are not
    many who listen"

    I got you here. I understand THIS, is the case in so may situation.
    but in scream it is only possible vaguely. Because even thinking that way, assumes the situation more tolerable, opposite to the one he is describing: which is ( Screaming out of having no choice, when one is absolutely out of options.) Anything else you asume here, undermines the gravity of the situation.This painting is all about expression and the inevitability of screaming out. This is the ultimate, versus our cozy relativity. Relativity is, but not always, the answer.
    And the reason he is the only one screaming, is not because others do not feel his grievance, more and less. It is because they have no voice. Almost only artists are the voice of the masses, more than any other trades and genres in the realm of souls.

    Added::
    By the way "awareness" is that part of "consciousness" that we have in common with animals and vegetations. So, consciousness is evolved awareness.
    I have to add that awareness in some aspects is way more powerful than consciousness, because it is instinctive and unconscience. (haha : an oxymoron). Human-being due to their consciousness (ability to think) they lost their connection with so many of their senses ( awareness) That is why we can not sense like animal and our attentions are very poor in compare. Also the six senses is related to awareness. though all of the senses have their interpretation in consciousness as well but the connection is not direct, they are always interpreted by the brain. That why the word geek come to play implying too much distance to our animalistic, intuitive selves.

    • 2 years ago

      by Everlasting

      See… this is where we differ in understanding.

      “Because even thinking that way, assumes the situation more tolerable, opposite to the one he is describing: which is ( Screaming out of having no choice, when one is absolutely out of options.)”

      When I look at the painting, I don’t “see” him screaming per se. When one screams because one has ran out of options, one does not scream looking straight at you. One screams looking at the sky, looking for some God, or anything. The man in the painting is covering his ears and looking at “you”. His eyes look confused. The scream he hears is from “nature”. We can see the sound that nature is making by the way he paints the sky, the water, the trees, and even himself (the man). He is becoming part of this nature. He is becoming voiceless.

      Basically, at that moment of experience he is becoming voiceless but that’s what it’s needed in order to, for him, as an artist, to become the bridge(that voice) that connects humans back to nature.

      Pay attention to the two men (his friends), they are not “wiggly” looking like everything else in the painting. They are not listening to nature in the way the man in the painting is. or at least that’s how I get it.

      P.s. I do see the point you are trying to make. The thing is that I don’t think my pain is more important than my neighbors pain per se. I don’t think that any pain or sadness is more tolerable than others. I think pain is pain. Sadness is sadness. It hurts. It hurts. But there’s some ways to find “some” relief.

      Also, im not saying your senyru is wrong. I was just trying to understand where your point of view was coming from.

      Thank you for sharing.