Talking about how she gets started on a book, she said: This sense of time changing our perspective of the world might be the central theme of Smith’s work. Not youth itself, but the changed perspective that comes with middle-age. ‘Animals’ is about looking back to a time when “the whole pasture looked like our meal”. One day you’re a pig in the field, the next you’re roasted It might be no use worrying about time, but that’s because it’s inevitable. The obvious image that brings up is a pig, ready for feasting-a symbol of fleeting youth, inevitable death, and all that jazz. “It’s no use worrying about Time,” O’Hara writes, straight after remembering a time when “the day came fat with an apple in its mouth.” (“In the brain space where memorised poems should be,” she once said, “I have a large collection of rap couplets.”) ‘Animals’ is about looking back from middle-age to youth. The guy was deeply insecure, and never understood that the spirit of the streets was all about welcoming everybody to free expression through art, dance, and (despite how tense it can get) good-faith competition - not seizing power.The only poem Zadie Smith knows by heart, apart from some Shakespeare, is ‘Animals’ by Frank O’Hara. I had no other choice! Why don't you understand?!" "Who am I, not to make use of my roots? No one was going to accept me if they knew about my dad. To me that kind of implies that Faux's issue wasn't inherently the fact that he was privileged, but that he THOUGHT he wouldn't ever be accepted because of that, and so lashed out - hiding and covering up his "roots," because he was using them for selfishness and evil. In the end, what defines you is what you do with the stuff you got." Isn't that basically what DJ Cyber said at the very end though? I feel like a better message would've been that your roots are important, and you should acknowledge them, but ultimately they don't make you who you are.
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