Hey! The theme I picked this week is the idea of future kids, well future daughters specifically. I heard this piece for the first time a little over a year and a half ago during my senior year and I absolutely fell in love with it. Andrew Tyree is part of a group called Fiveology that performs as their own individual artists but also as a group. I will probably soon be using many Fiveology pieces because I like them as a group as well. Their group was formed in 2012 and ever since then they have been touring and performing for and with many people. Andrew Tyree himself is a poetry slam champion and an actor, I found him youtube while watching episodes of Lexus Verses and Flow. During spoken word my senior year, they made us watch this video with his piece Dream Child and after that I went to show every I knew whether they cared or not. In this piece he talks about his future daughter being a princess and how much he loves her already. He says plenty of insightful things about children and how they function like when he says, "that's when I realized why parents don't understand their children til they're two, because for the first two years they have private secret conversations with God then he releases them to talk to you". That line specifically stuck with me because it reminds me of the way I think and I have thought a lot about why babies aren't able to talk for the first at most two years of their lives. I like how he talks about how protective he's going to be and how much he is going to look after her. He has great metaphors speaking on how he believes he is meant to be a father to a little girl so he can do right by her and her mother. His main motivation of being a great dad, as he said, is meeting woman who have been ruined by not having one. I can relate to that for the simple fact that I know a lot of women who grew up without a father that have trust issues (Drake v.) and who are just hurt by it. This poem shows how great of a dad he wants to be and how much he wants to love and care for his "dream child".
Friday, October 9, 2015
My Piece on his Piece called "Dream Child" A.K.A "To My Unborn Daughter"
Hey! The theme I picked this week is the idea of future kids, well future daughters specifically. I heard this piece for the first time a little over a year and a half ago during my senior year and I absolutely fell in love with it. Andrew Tyree is part of a group called Fiveology that performs as their own individual artists but also as a group. I will probably soon be using many Fiveology pieces because I like them as a group as well. Their group was formed in 2012 and ever since then they have been touring and performing for and with many people. Andrew Tyree himself is a poetry slam champion and an actor, I found him youtube while watching episodes of Lexus Verses and Flow. During spoken word my senior year, they made us watch this video with his piece Dream Child and after that I went to show every I knew whether they cared or not. In this piece he talks about his future daughter being a princess and how much he loves her already. He says plenty of insightful things about children and how they function like when he says, "that's when I realized why parents don't understand their children til they're two, because for the first two years they have private secret conversations with God then he releases them to talk to you". That line specifically stuck with me because it reminds me of the way I think and I have thought a lot about why babies aren't able to talk for the first at most two years of their lives. I like how he talks about how protective he's going to be and how much he is going to look after her. He has great metaphors speaking on how he believes he is meant to be a father to a little girl so he can do right by her and her mother. His main motivation of being a great dad, as he said, is meeting woman who have been ruined by not having one. I can relate to that for the simple fact that I know a lot of women who grew up without a father that have trust issues (Drake v.) and who are just hurt by it. This poem shows how great of a dad he wants to be and how much he wants to love and care for his "dream child".
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