English @ SUNY Geneseo | Jason Guisao | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/jasguis/activity/ Activity feed for Jason Guisao. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 cb33ffc2e58153243041469146e024b7 Jason Guisao wrote a new blog post A Conversation Between James Baldwin and Audre Lorde in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7441/ Tue, 18 Oct 2016 20:46:26 -0500 As an African American male raised in Harlem, the bustling, culturally diverse environment that Morrison has painted in Jazz is easy for me to visualize despite the large gap in time. A troubling truth that […]

]]> 0 4e8a73ec54aabb72d44a7d3efbf728e2 Jason Guisao wrote a new blog post Beginning of Semester Reflection and Hopes in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7046/ Tue, 06 Sep 2016 17:16:09 -0500 Hey, all. I just wanted to share this short reflective essay that I wrote to Beth a few days ago, detailing some thoughts on my self-identity in relation to Toni Morrison’s works and the upcoming semester:

Toni […]

]]> 0 b5ae6bb0cf404fae1bcc2766464389ef Jason Guisao joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6938/ Wed, 31 Aug 2016 18:59:29 -0500 0 add384dc86592fb8606eb87586264138 Jason Guisao commented on the post, An Expansion, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/11/22/an-expansion/#comment-6790 Sun, 29 Nov 2015 03:16:11 -0500 Once readers can distinguish a voice from other mentioned figures in a poem, characterization has been established. The tone of the voice–colloquialism or formal diction–this all creates a character. The […]

]]> 48ed7020d2d375506d19835b639568f3 Jason Guisao commented on the post, An Idea for Your Next Poem(s)!, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/10/26/an-idea-for-your-next-poems/#comment-6789 Sun, 29 Nov 2015 03:01:09 -0500 Sorry I’m so late responding to this. I’ve never really written in response to photography as compared to cinematography in feature length films; but in a lot of ways these two methods of capturing moments and […]

]]> c9d556ce7338724b05a5b71f0ce484e2 Jason Guisao wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=791 Sun, 29 Nov 2015 02:49:13 -0500 Hey all. Thanksgiving Break is coming to a close, and it’ll be time to get back to the final grind to end this semester. Our rounds of workshop revisions will also be over, but we all know there’s more to come […]

]]> 8bf0025b4ae2f351306dfc8457cb53cb Jason Guisao wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=726 Mon, 26 Oct 2015 20:43:42 -0500 Okay, so I got home about 20 minutes ago, and I thought I’d look through my old notes from Fiction Workshop I. After rummaging through a few piles of annotations and responses, I came across a treasure trove of a […]

]]> 12de0045860e1c83636e4c389cd67d66 Jason Guisao wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=616 Tue, 01 Sep 2015 21:12:53 -0500 The poem that was chosen as the heading for the first “playlist” (since we’re focusing on sound,music, etc.) of poems in the collection, “To Whoever Set My Truck on Fire” caught my attention after the utterance of […]

]]> 18d8f57468b5d0b837f530fcd354304a Jason Guisao commented on the post, Who are your favorite poets? From the past or the present, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/05/04/who-are-your-favorite-poets-from-the-past-or-the-present/#comment-4859 Mon, 04 May 2015 22:01:43 -0500 My favorite poets include: Raymond Carver, e.e. cummings, Mary Oliver, and Charles Baudelaire.

]]> 24bc930384823faa690f2fb5dc3bea45 Jason Guisao wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=568 Mon, 04 May 2015 20:11:03 -0500 So, as a few of you may know, I’ve been listening to an up-and-coming rapper named Kendrick Lamar. If you haven’t heard of him or listened to his music, I beg of you please check him out–he’s doing things that […]

]]> ea59110ba418f4a49c87d7ad1661bfa5 Jason Guisao commented on the post, When will poetry die?, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/05/04/when-will-poetry-die/#comment-4843 Mon, 04 May 2015 19:51:36 -0500 Taking your apocalyptic scenario into account and considering the hyper-evolution of giraffes and a creation of a new language, perhaps poetry won’t die in that respect. If the giraffes have evolved to become an […]

]]> b41dffb8110313e1bf325ddadec29704 Jason Guisao wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=562 Mon, 04 May 2015 02:56:32 -0500 So, while working on my portfolio, I came across this sudden feeling that the specific poem that I was working on needed to have a curse in it! That’s never happened to me before! In the past, I’ve always been […]

]]> 3f322705f112fa6ff5b5595caf5031e9 Jason Guisao commented on the post, Creative Intersections, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/05/02/creative-intersections/#comment-4818 Sun, 03 May 2015 00:42:24 -0500 I love to watch movies! My family is filled with movie buffs so I’m just continuing the tradition. Movies, like many other forms of art, are wonderful expressions of the “self” or “selves.” My inspiration to write […]

]]> 14b5f07cc7d2f0218fd06a37878e7fb7 Jason Guisao wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=414 Mon, 23 Mar 2015 14:17:01 -0500 The other day, I happened to be glancing over the schedule and I noticed that we’d be talking about Survivor this Friday. And just at that moment, I immediately remembered that I had wanted to right a very brief […]

]]> 01c841ccee420fa68678d30982d6ea37 Jason Guisao wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=352 Thu, 05 Mar 2015 00:54:40 -0500 During our discussion in which we were to place the blame of the microbe epidemic on a specific character in Clay’s Ark, many of us pointed out Eli’s disastrous plan to keep the disease contained within a small […]

]]> 6296b53e5b6ddea360726891e2ef6a60 Jason Guisao wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=118 Wed, 04 Feb 2015 04:56:02 -0500 Last Friday, Beth made a Google document for us to list our “alarms” which I suppose go hand-in-hand with the “traps” that we have constantly been caught in when reading Fledgling. Among the “alarms” were thoughts […]

]]> f35512af4f71c91e1ed3dd74a7b6bc1e Jason Guisao joined the group Speculative Fiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/3936/ Thu, 22 Jan 2015 02:15:17 -0500 0 b6bbac89b56bf21e40ebe3a0246692dd Jason Guisao wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=222 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 23:25:29 -0500 Some of you know that poetry is relatively new to me. In fact, I began to write poetry consistently just before I applied to the Creative Writing track. In other words, I wasn’t even expecting to be accepted into […]

]]> 688fd021c7f4a59a0a067e7903ceb7a2 Jason Guisao wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=116 Fri, 19 Sep 2014 03:10:10 -0500 I came across the Indie-Rock Folk band Fleet Foxes not too long ago. In 2011 the band released, Helplessness Blues, a song that I fell deeply in love with the first time it blasted from my TV speakers. It received critical acclaim and was considered one of the best songs of the year. The meaning behind its lyrics are still debated to this day. Some people believe that the song is about the American person’s need to become something greater; to find self-worth in the work that they do. Some believe that the song is about a man growing up and realizing that he is not as special and significant, in the grand scheme of things, as he once thought. And others believe that the song is about Capitalism and the dominance of the government on the average person’s life.

Despite what many think, it is obvious that the song is at its strongest at the very end. The rhythm slows and the bass deepens followed by the band members consistently singing: “If I had an orchard, I’d work till I’m sore.” I feel as if the orchard in this statement stands for many things. Like literature itself, interpretations are varied and numerous. I’d love to know what you lovely folks think of the song and its lyrics. What emotions are emitted in the sounds of the combined instruments? What do you see as you listen to the lyrics? What do you think “Orchard” means in the song? Or, better yet, what does it mean to you? Cheers.

The lyrics can be found here: http://rock.genius.com/Fleet-foxes-helplessness-blues-lyrics

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