Poetry #1

Poetry #1

1. The commercial uses the poem, The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski.
2. The use of this poem could be seen as ironic partly due to how the poems talks about being free and living your life the way you want to. Most corporations want to suck in consumers and convince them to buy their products. They wan to control people as well as their competing market, while the poem talks about freedom. 
3. From the research I did it would seem that a lot of his work focused on the realities and lives of normal and underprivileged people. Lots had sad theme,s while i see this one being more uplifting and inspirational; while still having some dark ideas.   
4. To find the answers for 1 and 3, i Googled " 2011 Levi's commercial poem" where I found an article that called it, The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski. Once I had that information Googled the specific poem and author where I found much more information.