Disgustipated

This is a poem that I completed yesterday for a literature class that I am currently taking. The poem fits the theme of my blog, so I thought I would post it under this week's blog to see what you guys thought of it. It was supposed to be a modernist poem in which sought out to refrain from using the overused romantic and flowery language of the Victorian culture. I chose to model mine after T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land," in which makes a lot of references to history that are not very well known, and uses that of foreign language in his poem to convey emotion and meaning. The title of my poem is Disgustipated. Please see the footnotes for translations and and historical references. I am in no position to say what I think is positive and negative about my poem since I wrote it. With that being said, please leave some feedback, if possible, to let me know how you interpretted the poem, and of what you liked or did not like about it and why. Thanks.

Disgustipated

Infecting the masses,

Ordering You!

(1) Tatsu! And Pushing, and their shoving.

You are the chosen one

The one to bear the club,

Go! Beat your brother down!

Construed from greed and hate,

(2) Daihonei, you are the founding fathter.

(3) Okaasan, okaasan, who are they that come here?

What's going on? What's going on?

(4)Dare desu ka? Who are they?

1. Stand!

2. The Imperial General Headquarters of Japan, which was responsible for conducting the Japanese Army and Navy during wartime.

3. Mother

4. Who are you?

(5) Tokoro de,

There's got to be a way?

(6) Otoosan, otoosan,

(7) Mina sama, doko iku no?

(8) Yoshiko Uchida san,

Simply because our eyes are not the same.

Tokoro de,

There's got to be a way?

Dissociative identity is the damage.

My identity!

5. Well, you now; by the way

6. Father

7. Where is everyone going?

8. One of the Japanese American citizens that was forced into a concentration camp in America during the 1940's under Franklin D. Roosevelt's orders.

(9) Nanda kore!

Why don't you come and join us,

Come,

Come join (10) The Wired.

(11) Nani?

(12) Doushite konai no?

9. What the hell; what is this

10. A fictional computer network

11. Why?

12Why don't you come?