Poetry #1

1. The comercial borrows the poem "the laughing heart" from  Charles Bukowski
2. The poem is ironic for the Levis company to use as a comercial becuase it says in the poem " your life is your life" but the company is trying to pursuade the viewers to buy their jeans from Levis, acting as if your life can only be your life if you wear their jeans. Another factor that makes this peom ironic for the companys choice would be the fact that in the poem it says " dont let it be clubbed into dank submission", ultimately if you listen to their comercial and buy their jeans you submitting to the power that Levis has over their customers. Because that line is in the poem Levis is basically telling their customers not to give into this comercial and do not buy their product.
3.I think that this peom does go with his reputation as an author. He wrote things about his personality and how he veiwed things in his life. when he first started off writting he was rejected many times and his life was going terrible until he finally got published. " you cant beat death but, you can beat death in life, sometimes" I think that he is refering to when he almost died but he finally found a spark of insperation that willed him to find life again. He reflects his change around in life multiple times throughout lots of his work. 4. I typed in the quote " your life is your life" and found the poem that way. After I found out who the author was I did more research on him to find out his life story and background information to see if this peice of work was out of the ordinary. Most sites I viewed talked about his early writings and how he began as an author, thus allowing me to figure out if it was unique or not. The main source I used was http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/charles-bukowski I found it to have the best sumarization of his life story.