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Around what has become known as awards season, casual conversations are abuzz with talk of the Year's movies. This yearly moment of cinematic recognition reminds us just how valuable the art form and the artists who make it are. Movies are an invitation to live in someone else's shoes, to learn, to experience, to empathize. We need these skills to nurture a culture of community. Now more than ever. This week's episodes explore how poets take up movies as subjects, how the two art forms intertwine to make us feel more closely this life we share. I'm Major Jackson, and this is the Slowdown Romy must have been eight or nine years old when we watched the silent films of Charlie Chaplin for a month. Fridays were a venture into the wild antics of the funniest tramp to ever grace the silver screen. We buttered our popcorn, unwrapped Kit Kat bars and bright red Twizzlers, and sat down side by side on the couch with our mugs of Ginger Alex. When the dark suited toothbrush mustache man with the oversized oxfords walked, cane swinging, toward the camera, we instantly laughed. We laughed at his exaggerated manners, the tilting of his bowler hat his adjustment to his tie, his fluttering eyelashes. When smitten with a girl, we laughed at his tenderness with pets and children. We admired his undaunted spirit in facing hardship. Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish, chaplin wrote in one script. Watching black and white films for Romy was the equivalent of entering an ancient cave to find the horses, bison and deer were suddenly animated and come to life. I worried that he would not like silent films. He had to read spoken dialogue at a pace maybe slightly faster than his reading comprehension allowed. But he loved them. Our favorite was Modern Times, the movie that critiques early 20th century factories that dehumanize people, rendering them mechanical cogs. Romy would mimic one of its famous scenes. He jerkily walked around the house pretending to tighten bolts. Many of Chaplin's films feel life affirming off the screen. Chaplin believed in the power of humans to transcend their quarrels. He said, the hope is that we shall have peace throughout the world, that we shall abolish wars and settle all international differences. Chaplin's films invite us to unite around humanitarian values where laughter counters cruelty and exploitation. Today's iconic modernist poem celebrates the artist and movie icon who inspired generations of filmmakers and actors. But even more so, the man who both made made us laugh at the folly of progress and urged us to embrace the tenderness of our hearts. Chaplainesque by Hart Crane we make our meek adjustments, contented with such random constellations as the wind deposits in slithered and too ample pockets. For we can still love the world who find a famished kitten on the step and know recesses for it. From the fury of the street or warm torn elbow coverts we will sidestep and to the final smirk dally the doom of that inevitable thumb that slowly chafes its puckered index toward us, facing the dull squint with what innocence and what surprise. And yet these fine collapses are not lies more than the pirouettes of any pliant cane. Our obsequies are in a way no enterprise. We can evade. You and all else but the heart. What blame to us if the heart live on? The game enforces smirks. But we have seen the moon in lonely alleys make a grail of laughter of an empty ash can, and through all sound of gaiety and quest have heard a kitten in the wilderness. The Slowdown is a production of American Public Media in partnership with the Poetry Foundation. This project is also supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. On the web@arts.gov to get a poem delivered to you daily. Go to slowdownshow.org and sign up for our newsletter. Find us at on Instagram at Slowdown show and Bluesky. Slowdownshow.org the road is Calling Embrace the thrill of the drive with the all new fully electric Audi Q6E Tron, featuring effortless power and advanced Audi tech.
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