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hii you're probably getting a TON of asks about your quiz, which read me like a book mind you- im afraid this one is no different. would love if you could elaborate on poet!! im very intrigued.
At last, here is my breakdown of my thinking behind the Poet archetype! I will say again what I said for my King and Soldier breakdowns: this is about my thinking regarding the actual archetype, it may or may not apply to you as a person, the quiz is more an interactive poem than an actual personality assessment, your personal reaction to your result will tell you a lot more than the result itself, etc.
So! Duty is the core value the quiz is centered around, and Poets reject it. Not necessarily in a rebellious sense, but the archetypal Poet believes that duty has too often been used to as an excuse for people to act in ways they think are unfair or hurtful, so they refuse to accept duty as moral in any way and want to make the world a better place with their own rules -- or lack thereof. However, they don't feel they can affect the world in traditional ways and have to find alternatives. This is where the song's lyrics come in: "there will come a poet whose weapon is his word, he will slay you with his tongue." The alternatives may or may not be effective, but the Poet's fear is that they aren't, or worse, that they're harmful. When I say that the Poet has very little to do with creativity as we usually mean it (aka art of any kind), that's what I mean. The Poet is inventive out of necessity, and it may choose art, but it may not, and it will often feel unsure or insecure about that choice; hence their envy of Soldiers, who in their eyes are much more able to have a direct effect on their environment. I also wrote Poets as explicitly lonely (each archetype is lonely in its own way, but Poets are built to be), because they feel at odds with the established order and fear they are the only one. This is why the love focused questions have Poet answers that talk of companionship. I do think though that out of the three archetypes, the Poet is the most inclined to optimism, because it inherently believes that change is possible and that fighting for it is a good thing. I do also think the archetypal Poet believes in a happy ending!
I'll also add for fun a potential reading I just thought about: Soldiers tend to be very caught in the past and what they've been through, Kings tend to be very worried about the future and whether or not they will fail the task they have been given, and Poets are probably the most likely to live in the present to try and create direct, tangible change. This makes it sound like Poets are the best one to be, but being too focused on the present may also mean you repeat mistakes or lack foresight, so they all have their ups and downs.
And one last thing since this is the third breakdown: none of the results are definitive, and none of them are meant to be absolute truths about you! Many of my friends got different results over the years, and they all interpreted that differently, because in the end they all know themselves better than any quiz with three possible results :) This quiz can give you a result that resonates with you, it may not, but your reaction to the it, to the questions, to the possible answers -- that's what actually tells you about who you are, so don't worry too much about my thinking behind the quiz if it doesn't match what you know to be true about yourself 🥰
Your quiz truly unruled me and caused quite a stirr and not only for me. I bow down to your way of pinning things down to their place in particularity.
I got king and was surprised. Could maybe you further elaborate what it means to be a king?
Thank you so much for the kind words! I’ll say first of all that the Soldier/Poet/King archetypes are just that, and though I believe the quiz can give insight into a person because questions can provoke some thought, I think I consider it more an interactive writing exercise than a personality quiz, so take everything I say with a grain of salt when it comes to relating it to you.
So I’ve spoken about this before on my blog, but the core of the King archetype is in its relationship to duty: the King is given duty, does not necessarily like it, but accepts it any way and deals with it. This is very vague and I think the reason people overwhelmingly get King is that the feeling of being dissatisfied with one’s life but having to live it anyways is fairly common. For the record, the Poet refuses duty, and the Soldier resents duty. Kings carry with them an inherited responsibility, and they are bound to carry that forward whether they like it or not. They cannot stand the thought of failing that mission, and do not like to admit in any way shape or form that they resent said mission. They’ll do it, whatever it takes, because this is what they have to do, at the risk of forgetting to let themselves live for their own sake. They can’t bear the idea of carrying the guilt of disappointing people’s expectations.That’s really the core of the archetype, based on the song lyrics (which I know are about Jesus, but I chose to completely ignore that and take them at face value when making the quiz): “there will come a ruler whose brow is laid in thorn, smeared with oil like David’s boy.” The crown is made of thorns and painful to bear. The King exists as a comparison to someone’s son, and cannot stand on its own. Thus, painful duty and heavy weight of legacy.
Also, since a lot of people who get King say they hoped to be Poets, here’s a fun fact: I’ve built each archetype so that it wants to be another – in theory, Poets want to be Soldiers because they think Soldiers can affect the world more effectively, Soldiers want to be Kings because they believe Kings have the stability and peace they crave, and Kings want to be Poets because they see Poets as free.
Hope that gave you some insight into my thought process!
An addendum on this post – when I say in the last paragraph that I built each archetype to want to be another, that is only in theory! It’s true that a lot of people wanted Poet and got King, but I think that speaks more to the fact that in life a poet would be more desirable to be than a king or a soldier, and that a lot of people get King, so statistically it makes sense. I very much think it’s a number’s game at this point rather than me being some sort of psychic quiz maker who can anticipate what result people will want and show them the mystical truth instead, haha. Plenty of people got what they thought they would get, plenty of people wanted Soldier and got King instead, etc etc. So anything I say about the archetypes is only absolutely true about the archetypes themselves, which, you know, I made myself and wanted to be complimentary and fit together. Likewise, archetypal Poets judge Kings and think they’re using duty as an excuse (note that they don’t have the full story!), archetypal Kings judge Soldiers and think they’re reckless and have neither their own respect for duty nor the Poet’s courage of rejecting it, and archetypal Soldiers judge Poets for being too optimistic. That’s true about the characters I made, it probably isn’t about you 😭 I get Soldier on the quiz and I love dearly all my friends who got Poet.
The archetypes as I built them are only that, and the quiz itself is only a series of twenty questions that give you a conclusion based on the answer category you picked more often: all the meaning you derive from it comes from yourself :) Don’t get me wrong I think it’s a damn good piece of writing and I am really proud of it but I can’t take credit for any soul searching you did yourself <3
i think that every child should have unrestricted access to thick blackberry brambles or some other delicious fruit that grows encased in a painful fortress. i think wading through thorns to reach the cluster of shining ripe berries you spied through a gap between the tangled vines teaches you something important. not sure what though
i just know no fruit has ever tasted as sweet as the ones i ate while bleeding under the blistering summer sun
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