[MBTI General] Being Poetic...?

[Valiant]

I'm a big fan of "Barret's privateers", "the Ryans and the Pittmans" (you know "we'll rant and we'll roar like true newfoundlanders...") .. "Ghosts of cape horn" is one of my favourites too ^^ It's a good evening song to smoke pipe to while rolling on the waves. There are however many I like, most very closely related to or inside the category of irish folk music. Like Dublin O'Shea, Home Boys home, The holy ground and many others ^^

But in order to create a new song i'd be needing alcohol. Sea shanties is not to be done on an empty stomach ^^ I'll try and create one later (it's friday morning here), because i'm drinking tonight ^^

 

[heart]

oh good, then I asked on the right day!

 

[The Ü™]

I don't know if I'm poetic, but I do have a taste for the theatrics.

 

[Valiant]

Oh yes you did ^^ If I remember it (i'm P, remember), i'll create a shanty later ; )

 

[heart]

Oh yes you did ^^ If I remember it (i'm P, remember), i'll create a shanty later ; )

 

[JAVO]

An INTP
Very poetic can be
When motivation or love strikes
An unusual spectacle
Or perhaps a specter
Seen for a fleeting moment
Was it really there?

These verses
Are but fringes
Of what lies beneath
Waiting to be seen
But not seen heard
But not heard felt
But also thought

To ignore
The expressiveness of poetry
Is to ignore
The only camera
Capable of photographing one invisible layer
Of the entire picture of life

An unconscionable mistake

 

[alcea rosea]

Thanks for everybody for your posts in this thread!
And thanks for Javo for the INTP poem.

I started to think about this poetic stuff and I remembered how I enjoyed as a child to write poems and stories. I was really keen on writing and thought I would become a journalist when I would grow up. Somehow during the way, I have totally lost my touch in creative writing of any kind. Going through different levels of schoolsystem for 20 years (!) has made me very uncreative.

So there might be a truth in Ne-Fi or Fi-Ne creativity and being poetic.
I have just forgotten how to be creative.

 

[Valiant]

Hey, Heart, look at this ;D Somebody did a little remixing on the Ghosts of Cape Horn... Result: "The Ghosts of Gay Porn"

 

[heart]

I will have to look it up.

 

[the state i am in]

Fi has the most explosive emotional projection
Ne is the furthest reaching and least stuck in place
Fe is arranging everything into a bouquet and you can smell each note singing in chorus
Ni is sneaky and subversive, it cuttles along like a conductor and tazors you where you least expect it, what a delightful grin!
Ti breaks down form and plays with the page with more spontaneity and spunk than any other function (see donald barthelme, vladimir nabokov, etc- i rub my hands together in anticipation of their words, words, words!)
Te is good for installing new energy efficient windows (i kid, i kid)

definitely enfp can catch the flow the easiest and wrap themselves in words and shawls and all that jazz. entp is also pretty good at catching it skate by, but instead is more comic and gleefully mirthful mwahaha.

nfj is bombastic and big-gestured and their insides are shaking with deep bellied laughter and a strange penetrating wisdom that belies their foolishness. a zen crazy missing-teeth mystic hee-heeing all day long on the hill. when you've absorbed every emotion, the only place to go is up up up

infp makes you feel in ways that are not distant and arty but all-too-real, mastery of subjective experience SO REAL, yet enough creativity to encode it tho we all already believe, worn like scars

intp is just devilish and mercilessly creative, tearing apart conventions and knocking you on your ass

 

[zarc]

Fi has the most explosive emotional projection
Ne is the furthest reaching and least stuck in place
Fe is arranging everything into a bouquet and you can smell each note singing in chorus
Ni is sneaky and subversive, it cuttles along like a conductor and tazors you where you least expect it, what a delightful grin!
Ti breaks down form and plays with the page with more spontaneity and spunk than any other function (see donald barthelme, vladimir nabokov, etc- i rub my hands together in anticipation of their words, words, words!)
Te is good for installing new energy efficient windows (i kid, i kid)

I thoroughly enjoyed your take on it. I think all the processes can become expressed through poetry. But... I think your interpretation was more of how they're expressed through NFJs and maybe even more so INFJs? Seeing how far down the chain Fi is for NFJs it fits that it can feel unsettling to them. But I imagine that Fi wouldn't normally be explosive to NFPs (or SFPs) but more calming, more softly spun and teased and weaved throughout Ne, becoming a cross country marathan to the map of one's heart, surrounded by garter snakes and sparkling waters reflecting a comet dancing across the sky while the horizon laughs away its invisibility. FiNe or NeFi attunes your awareness to what's impossibly happening around you and what's around inside you.

Maybe. Just a hunch. I'd like to know if NFPs think the same.

nfj is bombastic and big-gestured and their insides are shaking with deep bellied laughter and a strange penetrating wisdom that belies their foolishness. a zen crazy missing-teeth mystic hee-heeing all day long on the hill. when you've absorbed every emotion, the only place to go is up up up

Ooh, how I relate. My inspiration is easily startled and it’s often that I can’t write fast enough to pin it back. It’s sometimes how I deal with repressed emotions too, though mostly I write 'away from myself'. I'd rather work through them mentally but, in a way, writing my feelings out is working them out.

To say Fi is explosive is right... It is so for me because I often am unaware of certain feelings. So when expressed it's done so in a rather bizarrely heightened schizofrantic sort of way. I almost always feel cleansed when done with it.

More of a guess with Ni Fe Ti. To put it shortly, it's almost like thoughtful madness.

 

[BlueScreen]

I thoroughly enjoyed your take on it. I think all the processes can become expressed through poetry. But... I think your interpretation was more of how they're expressed through NFJs and maybe even more so INFJs? Seeing how far down the chain Fi is for NFJs it fits that it can feel unsettling to them. But I imagine that Fi wouldn't normally be explosive to NFPs (or SFPs) but more calming, more softly spun and teased and weaved throughout Ne, becoming a cross country marathan to the map of one's heart, surrounded by garter snakes and sparkling waters reflecting a comet dancing across the sky while the horizon laughs away its invisibility. FiNe or NeFi attunes your awareness to what's impossibly happening around you and what's around inside you.

Maybe. Just a hunch. I'd like to know if NFPs think the same.

Ooh, how I relate. My inspiration is easily startled and it’s often that I can’t write fast enough to pin it back. It’s sometimes how I deal with repressed emotions too, though mostly I write 'away from myself'. I'd rather work through them mentally but, in a way, writing my feelings out is working them out.

To say Fi is explosive is right... It is so for me because I often am unaware of certain feelings. So when expressed it's done so in a rather bizarrely heightened schizofrantic sort of way. I almost always feel cleansed when done with it.

More of a guess with Ni Fe Ti. To put it shortly, it's almost like thoughtful madness.

Ti can be very good for poetry and writing. As can Se. I learnt to write by watching and learning from my ISTP sister. I'll probably never see a scene in such vivid detail, and I'll probably never find such perfect form. I've noticed ISTPs on the board are great writers too. Maybe less into poetry though? not sure.

 

[Lady_X]

"for metaphors and shit" LOL. nice.

that's exactly what i thought...how funny! haha

 

[speculative]

So,
Do you think being poetic or really good in writing has anything to do with MBTI functions or types?

I think being poetic does have something to do with functions, just as arguing via the use of definitions has something to do with functions.

On the other hand, I do not feel that functions have much to do with writing well or writing poorly. That is a craft that any function can learn to do well with time and effort, although certain types may be predispositioned to certain structures of narrative, or certain topics.

 

[Lady_X]

intp's for sure can be poetic...so witty they are and such precision they have.

 

[Lady_X]

Fi has the most explosive emotional projection
Ne is the furthest reaching and least stuck in place
Fe is arranging everything into a bouquet and you can smell each note singing in chorus
Ni is sneaky and subversive, it cuttles along like a conductor and tazors you where you least expect it, what a delightful grin!
Ti breaks down form and plays with the page with more spontaneity and spunk than any other function (see donald barthelme, vladimir nabokov, etc- i rub my hands together in anticipation of their words, words, words!)
Te is good for installing new energy efficient windows (i kid, i kid)

definitely enfp can catch the flow the easiest and wrap themselves in words and shawls and all that jazz. entp is also pretty good at catching it skate by, but instead is more comic and gleefully mirthful mwahaha.

nfj is bombastic and big-gestured and their insides are shaking with deep bellied laughter and a strange penetrating wisdom that belies their foolishness. a zen crazy missing-teeth mystic hee-heeing all day long on the hill. when you've absorbed every emotion, the only place to go is up up up

infp makes you feel in ways that are not distant and arty but all-too-real, mastery of subjective experience SO REAL, yet enough creativity to encode it tho we all already believe, worn like scars

intp is just devilish and mercilessly creative, tearing apart conventions and knocking you on your ass

YEEEEAHH!!! I LOVE IT!

 

[Xellotath]

I'm surprised so many people say we Ne Fi folks are fit to be poets.
For the longest time, I thought poetry was the exclusive territory of INFJ's, so I wouldn't even attempt anything although I had an interest in the art.

To put down ideas, no matter how crazy they sound and be free to decorate them as you see fit sounds very appealing to me. The open-endedness of the medium is like an invitation for Fi... although like all arts, I fear being accused of "OMG YOU DIDNT DO THIS RIGHT!"

I hate being constrained.

Maybe experimental poetry is a better fit?
Ah.. to go for the raw nerve without strings attached... or being terrified of irking some ocd nazi because I accidentally sinned against the structure of a sonnet...

Such a pretty idea..

 

[Lady_X]

dr. seuss is an enfp you know...and he's the coolest...haha

 

[BlueScreen]

I'm surprised so many people say we Ne Fi folks are fit to be poets.
For the longest time, I thought poetry was the exclusive territory of INFJ's, so I wouldn't even attempt anything although I had an interest in the art.

To put down ideas, no matter how crazy they sound and be free to decorate them as you see fit sounds very appealing to me. The open-endedness of the medium is like an invitation for Fi... although like all arts, I fear being accused of "OMG YOU DIDNT DO THIS RIGHT!"

I hate being constrained.

Maybe experimental poetry is a better fit?
Ah.. to go for the raw nerve without strings attached... or being terrified of irking some ocd nazi because I accidentally sinned against the structure of a sonnet...

Such a pretty idea..

Yeh, sonnets and rigid structure really bore me.

I agree, Dr. Seuss rules! My sister and I were the oldest people in the cinema when we went to see "Horton Hears a Who" .

 

[Costrin]

I'm not usually poetic in the traditional sense, but I like to think my precise concise word usage and logical structure is poetry in its own way.

Though, I can get more traditionally poetic in two kinds of situations. When I'm attempting humour, or when I'm attempting to describe my emotions. Both are probably the result of my Ne function.