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Aesop’s gravel-voiced verses abound with extended metaphors, complex rhyme schemes, and passages that just plain don’t make sense, leading critic after critic to bring “the poetry question” forward in discussion of his artistic output...
...musical and lyrical influences, Aesop doesn’t spout off references to Yeats or Ashbery, but instead constructs a veritable Who’s Who of classic rap lyricists, including Slick Rick, Ghostface Killah, and his mentor El-P. Instead of spending hours on end fine-tuning his rhyme scheme to match some stifled polyameter, Aesop’s main concern has always been to find “something I can work with, [...] then to assemble it over a beat...
...classic musical form, characters move between song-and-dance and what passes for real life with little rhyme or reason, telling the story (not that story matters that much) of Peter (Rowan R.A. Sheldon ’08), a freshman whose roommate George (Kevin Ferguson ’08) has been kidnapped. He enlists the assistance of the detective Veronica (Nicole A. Buckley ’08) and her associates Yolanda (Alexis M. Pacheco ’08) and Wanda (Diana Y. Wan ’08) to help rescue him. Along the way, we are treated to songs...
...make-up, while well conceived, sometimes seems obviously artificial even from a far viewing distance. Additionally, the lack of a full combo or orchestra limits the score’s liveliness. By no means is the work itself perfect. The lines are occasionally predictable, and the meter and rhyme of the songs are sometimes awkward. But just as Mr. Plumb redeems itself for its other shortcomings, these faults are more than compensated for by the show’s tendency toward self-deprecation. Indeed, after reading a love poem Maggie has received from Plumb, Drake comments on the poor quality...
Knox has composed all but one of his poems while in the saddle, with the steady clip-clop cadence of the horse guiding the iambs and a simple rhyme making the words easy to remember. This is crucial, for cowboys tell poems; they don't recite them. They can be found preserving this oral tradition in a dusky bar or a seedy motel. Says Knox: "I've never in my life sat around a campfire and asked somebody to tell a poem...