So why is the poem Self Reflexive?

Self-awareness is a recent development in human consciousness. Certain psychologists and philosophers of Mind observe the rise of self-consciousness in the past 200 years. In the past 100 years art has become self-reflexive.

Objectivity or scientific detachment is another facet of self-reflexivity. The artist’s isolation is a necessary consequence of the artist as observer and transmitter of society. I should inject contrast with decorative crafts. Consider the special case of functional pottery. IN the industrial age, machine made cups whether of paper or ceramic are ubiquitous. The hand made pottery is the direct transference of thought from the unconscious to the directed hands.

Here is a request I have for the reader. Please go out on the Internet and see if you can find some rap lyrics that are self reflexive.

The rap referring to itself
Or raps about rasp,

It wraps itself, the poem, about the world and itself...
A cocoon.

Outsider = Detached observer. We know of the poet as dog, now try on the artist as mollusk.

Here’s a poem:
A section titled
“Salient features
Of the poem
Summarized in words
Comparing a review of The Tic Tac Club

By the Golden Arm Trio:
The Tic Tock Club
Little Richard Played there
A short film with each track
Shostakovich DSCH
Main theme of the album
Cello plays the theme
Graham Reynolds
Band Music VS
Composed Concert Music
Which is “More sophisticated”

In the narrative structure
Sorrows transformed to magic
The move through a manufactured path
Primeval fool of gaunt trees
Destined to be felled for ships
Now connected by vines

Eventide.