tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933982574370506108.post7559293840401211930..comments2024-03-19T04:30:17.756-05:00Comments on Poetry & Popular Culture: Putting the Ale in SalemMike Chasarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00272500491569722314noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933982574370506108.post-1328349185137065842020-06-03T00:16:22.038-05:002020-06-03T00:16:22.038-05:00I am sure that this is a good idea, but still I wa...I am sure that this is a good idea, but still I want to share my personal site which helped me in writing an essay and will also help you if you need to write an essay very quickly and inexpensively <a href="https://payforessay.net/custom-paper" rel="nofollow">https://payforessay.net/custom-paper</a>Mike77https://www.blogger.com/profile/10285158622021249320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933982574370506108.post-3589637464990914602010-09-28T09:39:30.956-05:002010-09-28T09:39:30.956-05:00Thanks for opening up the power of these old ads; ...Thanks for opening up the power of these old ads; there's nothing like delving into nuances, wordplay, and liquor to get one wanting to lather up, open a heady malt, and restore a woman to fullness.<br /><br />I keep imagining the poets who wrote these opening their eyes, saying, yes! someone got it! Because however much something works subliminally, there's such pleasure when someone says, Oh, ale as in ail?Patricia J. Espositohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03265963157852022604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933982574370506108.post-85233837221567841092010-09-24T16:32:09.411-05:002010-09-24T16:32:09.411-05:00Poets Marianne Moore & James Dickey worked in ...Poets Marianne Moore & James Dickey worked in advertising, as did Hart Crane & Bret Harte. Lord Byron was suspected of writing shoe blacking ads in the early 19th century. And at least one movie -- A Knight's Tale -- portrays Geoffrey Chaucer as the jousting/UFC fight night emcee that TJ imagines here. <br /><br />So the notion of a Shakespeare hawking Rx drugs isn't far off. In fact, at the moment, the Poetry Foundation in Chicago is powered by Eli Lilly pharmaceutical money. Rather than support an individual writer, Lilly's fortune is patron to an entire poetic empire.<br /><br />There are strong connections between the patent medicine and soap industries of the late 19 & early 20 centuries. As government regulations like the Pure Food & Drug Act made it more and more difficult for patent medicine producers to make and hawk their wares, some started making soap, using the same set of ridiculous advertising claims (it will make you healthy! beautiful! ward off disease!) that they used before. Gradually, as the most-advertised product in U.S. history (patent medicines) gave way to the most advertised product of early consumer capitalism (soap), the connections between shopping, health, and beauty only got more "natural". When we use the term "Retail Therapy" today, it makes sense in part because of a marketing history that made shopping a sort of refreshing and renewing medicinal bubble bath.<br /><br />And, of course, soap and patent medicines -- and very nearly every other product on the market -- were advertised via poetry. That poetry had such a central part in establishing the cultural logic of consumer capitalism is a story that continues to go untold.Mike Chasarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272500491569722314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933982574370506108.post-5603805023998707092010-09-23T18:54:39.287-05:002010-09-23T18:54:39.287-05:00I would very much like to! I'm pretty sure thi...I would very much like to! I'm pretty sure this is going to be the event of the year. <br /><br />Oooohh that Capital Taps! So anonymous! So clever! So fixated on the arcane!Emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11927529132499597341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933982574370506108.post-40110614185337849882010-09-22T19:32:03.924-05:002010-09-22T19:32:03.924-05:00Baby pictures are always cute, even when the spawn...Baby pictures are always cute, even when the spawn grows up to be modern marketing. Poems like this were the first contractions in the birth.<br /><br />Alive today, Basho would be a lead character in Madmen. Shakespeare would be hawking Rx drugs and Cervantes would be the commentator on the UFC fight night.<br /><br />And we would watch. They'd be good.tjpfauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02220632387630869223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933982574370506108.post-27137572852386749892010-09-22T13:21:23.284-05:002010-09-22T13:21:23.284-05:00Ha! What a great reading! The language slips and...Ha! What a great reading! The language slips and slides across the beery floor of meaning much more than we'd noticed. <br /><br />The courtship, sexing up, and threatened masculinity participates in the general neurasthenia discourse, of course - but your reading also highlights possible anxiety about womens suffrage and the fact that in 1912 women would get the vote in Oregon. <br /><br />(Ads for <a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1895-06-25/ed-1/seq-5/;words=patent+medicinal+CUPIDENE" rel="nofollow">Cupidene (see lower right hand corner)</a>, and at least one other patent medicine trading on Aphrodite, were common and are clearly proto-Viagra!)Capital Tapshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04125494106287929220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3933982574370506108.post-80610188245062596982010-09-22T12:54:10.421-05:002010-09-22T12:54:10.421-05:00Blogger cannot convey how much I
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