True Grit

Visual poem for those lovely Hawaiians

Note: The sign does not dictate the words that will be in the poem and are only significant to the meaning of the picture.

We are legion

Pages 32-34 have many biblical references, one likening both pigs and criminals to demons. 

Themes ?

Returning to to nature, returning to archaic forms, and returning to darkness

Nature Devours Worlds

When I look to the sky nothing returns

My gaze except wonder in the pale blue.

So I look to the earth in hopes of turns

But only see everything of you

Looked to the floor for wooden boards but no

More green than plants for recycling from

the landfills of the free and the home for

bravery that now has taken our home

Away from the breath cooler than the air

of the atmosphere of safe and comfort

returned to the earth Our homes to nature's

disastrous paintings all in green hues

but we have learned The fight has taken us

to a place where green cannot be safety

Frankly colorful

Here is my color palette for Frankenstein, which should have been a video but half of it was corrupted and so i lost the colors when they were standing by themselves. 

What hides in the wood (the green that makes up the stem and center if the flower): is for secrecy and the danger of privileged knowledge. 

Dangerously clear ( the yellow of the flower): is representative of nature, which is prefect, but horrifying. The green even seeps into it as a representation of how little we understand about nature and how dangerous the secrets we've yet to learn could be. 

Parch-that's not what I-ment (the grey background): this is to represent the texts in the texts in the text of Frankenstein.(yeah, I'm confused, too) not only does grey seem apropos because paper that gets water stained either turns grey, or makes the ink run, but also because very thin is colored in an opinion, seeing as the entire story is written to somebody. 

Visual 3x3 of Farmington (I kind of focused on eduactaion)

So, just in case it needs the clarification, the pictures are as follows:
Mallet school
Academy Hill
Mt Blue Middle School
Mt Blue High School
University of Maine at Farmington
A student teacher at Mallet school
(Now there's a bit of a shift away from one's own education and the focus is more on one's [if one were to have any] children.)
so, the first day of school for your children
the first time that your little girl performs in front of her school with some school friends
and finally, as your child begins to grow into a young adult, Mt Blue Campus, to remind you how much things can change.


Honorable mentions from google images:

Diving into the wreck: indie style.

This book is almost an autobiography of Adrienne Rich. She has a very gritty and rough writing style. She writes a lot abut uncomfortable topics like rape or sexism. 

I designed the record cover to emulate these uncomfortable situations, which is why it's so oddly shaped. And the front side is all of the themes, overlapping and rough, still legible but uncomfortable to read. 

The backside if the record cover is a portrait of the author, alluding to the Rosie the riveter. 

So I asked for input from a friend about which poem I should perform at a poetry slam and she sent me back this, which is both, spliced together.

I used to stare into the back of his mind,

tracing thought clouds into

lions and tiger and bears

oh

my eyes light up

when I'm melted to your back.

You told me once that my breath

tastes like stars

and that my hands felt like

leaves falling from oak

but Nature' time

doesn't allow for

couplets to rhyme.

When together,

flowers stay in the ground

and chocolates are left unattended,

as couch cushions

depress under

out intertwined weight

and whispers slide through the air.

And I didn't always know that's what I wanted

because I had different pronouns for a different kind of romance

I should have known it wasn't right

should've know there was no chance because

She told me that my lips tasted like paper

I didn't realize what she meant at first

Because paper makes me see old yellowed pages

Tattooed in calligraphy

Hidden secrets in the back shelf

The sound of a brand new books spine cracking

The cloud of dust when you open a neglected novel

That coy smile from the librarian when you check out a book with "adult content"

Sitting in a nest of unheard stories

Giving yourself paper cuts on excitement

And letting your weary eyes battle through words of adventure

The smell of knowledge in your nose

And the taste of exploration on your tongue

I didn't know what she meant at first

That I tasted blank and empty

(Apparently even I have themes in my work?)

Who doesn't love linguistics?

""She Keeps Me Warm"

She says I smell like safety and home
I named both of her eyes “Forever” and “Please don’t go”
I could be a morning sunrise all the time, all the time yeah
This could be good, this could be good

And I can’t change, even if I tried
Even if I wanted to
And I can’t change, even if I tried
Even if I wanted to
My love, my love, my love, my love
She keeps me warm, she keeps me warm

What’s your middle name?
Do you hate your job?
Do you fall in love too easily?
What’s your favorite word?
You like kissing girls?
Can I call you baby?
Yeah, yeah

She says that people stare ‘cuz we look so good together
Yeah, yeah, yeah

And I can’t change, even if I tried
Even if I wanted to
And I can’t change, even if I tried
Even if I wanted to
My love, my love, my love, my love
She keeps me warm, she keeps me warm [x2]

I’m not crying on Sundays, I’m not crying on Sundays [x2]
Love is patient, love is kind [x4]
My love, my love, my love, my love
She keeps me warm, she keeps me warm"

This song is by Mary Lambert. Yes, parts of it were also in Same Love by Macklemore.

So I heard someone on youtube (I think it was in a cover of Let It Go) mention putting things through multiple layers of google translate and coming out with interesting, and sometimes really deep, results. So I decided to.
I took the entire song and ran it through about 20 languages, occasionally having to start over because some languages don't translate properly into other, like Punjabi and Greek, but after a little while I found a combination with no problems.
(The languages include; Finnish, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Mandarin, German, Russian, and Croatian, among others.)

My end result was pretty interesting;
"

She said I feel like security and home

Asked if his eyes "Forever" and "Do not go"

The sun could be run all the time, all the time, it is

This can be good, can be a good

And I can not change, even if I did

Even if I were

And I can not change, even if I did

Even if I were

My love, my love, my love, my love

It keeps me warm, it will keep me warm

What is your name?

Do you hate your job?

You fall in love easily?

What is your favorite word?

As the girls to kiss?

Can I call you baby?

Yeah, yeah

He says that people see 'cuz we're also in conjunction with

Yes, yes,

And I can not change, even if I did

Even if I were

And I can not change, even if I did

Even if I were

My love, my love, my love, my love

It keeps me warm, it keeps me warm [x2]

I'm crying on Sunday, I can not cry on Sunday [x2]

Love is patient, love is kind [x4]

My love, my love, my love, my love

It keeps me warm, it will keep me warm"

Now, of course, there are grammatical errors, like a word for word translation from nearly any language, but what I want to look at are the grammatical differences that actual change the meaning.

"And I can not change, even if I did

Even if I were

And I can not change, even if I did

Even if I were

My love, my love, my love, my love

It keeps me warm, it will keep me warm"

The chorus has the most meaning to me. The change is haunting, even though it's just from "tried" to "did." It still means the same thing, only a bit more powerful in my opinion. To me, it's saying that even if she (The speaker is pretty obviously a lesbian woman.) did change, she would stay fundamentally the same, as is true of most people. 

Now this is the exciting part to me, because this almost stops being a song that apostrophizes a person, and something addressing the idea of love. Even more than that, it changes from "She keeps me warm" to "It keeps me warm," deftly throwing out the idea that you need someone to keep you warm at night. All you really need is a connection with someone; be it a friend, family member, lover, or pet.

Then this happens, "I'm crying on Sunday, I can not cry on Sunday [x2]." Now let me tell you, this line would make me cry if it were actually in the song. The desperation that this line resonates makes my soul ache, and the fact that, even though I feel it's more emotional this way, that pain carried itself through so many languages tells me that it's universal.

Not many things are the same in every language.

A laugh.

A moan. (Not the sexual kind)

A sob.

A moan. (the sexual kind, this time)

Emotions, however, have no such language barriers. A woman who loses her child will still cry the same, no matter what corner of the world that she's from. Children still giggle in the most heart-enchantingly adorable way, even if their from separate continents. 

DEEP design

Well, I was actually kind of slow when it came to discovery. I didn't start until after vacation and I started doing the wrong thing. I couldn't quite remember the details of the assignment so I checked the blog and it said found poem. Which in actual poetry jargon is a poem that you find in someone else's work, like a blackout poem. Once I got that straight, though I immediately decided on my poem and what I was going to do. The emotion that I was trying to get acros was pretty simple; my materials gave exactly what I was looking for. After a very short expire mental phase, my project came together without a large distinction between production. I think that my production came put very well, even if it's not quite what I was looking for. I was able to make it without having to go to the store and by wire. Maybe in the future I'll remake it with a smaller gaug wire so that I can make it look more elegant. 

Don't you love how late everyone stays up on Fridays?

Haha. Just kidding, I stress-crashed at 5:30 and slept for 16 hours. So today will be blogging day. 

A little tidbit I saved for after class

In Jacob's 3x3 I saw something that I had bit been expecting at all. I look at the middle sentence and I immediately thought that Evaline could be pregnant. It would explain so much, how desperately she wants to leave with Frank. She's not only craving escape but she needs to be with the father of her child and they need to be married so that she doesn't have to suffer the barrassment of having a child out I wedlock. Then she realizes that her family is more important and that her mother wouldn't want her to run away and steal her child away from its family.

Essay Map

Broken homes shatter

Secret lovers flee

Love has tolls

Broken homes cause more pain than seen, causing freedom to take precedence until love can no longer be given to all. 

Paragraph one: People who still have everyone in their family together don't realize it, but families pulled apart take more pieces with them than is obvious. Each family member takes more and more when they leave until the only person left is in tatters. 

Paragraph two: As almost a rule, if two people are seeing each other in secret they will plan to run away together. Romeo and Juliet did it, my aunt did when her black fiancé infuriated the rest of my family, and even teenagers from Mt Blue have done it. 

Paragraph three: With a double meaning this paragraph would be the longest. Not only does her love for frank nearly pull her away from her family, but her love for her family keeps her from having a life of her own. We've all suffered at the hands of a loved one, whether they intended it or not. 

In conclusion it can be said that Evalune is representative and symbolic of nearly every kind of love possible, even the love of inanimate objects. 

Gender roles in Evaline

I'm actually really surprised that nobody touched on this while we were doing three by threes in class.Tthe only reason it wasn't involved in mine was because I assumed a bunch of people would pick it up but, I noticed super distinct gender roles and Evaline. Like every paragraph had something that was just about a man protecting her or her having to stay home and keep the family together. I'm pretty sure this was a typo but it still helped my brain focus on all of the gender roles. the first word is she and it's all in capitals which I don't think is relevant but still being the first word is obviously has some power. She did have a job which, you know, doesn't fit into the gender roles quite as much as some of the older values that I can see but, still she dusted once a week, she kept the house clean and, tried to keep her family together and even when leaving she's still stuck in that mindset of "she's a woman they are men." she thought she would be treated with respect because she was going to be married. 

The price of my poetry as design project.

Acting your role

 So I was thinking about AP Lit while browsing tumblr (don't be surprised, if it's not an original thought, there's about a 50/50 chance the smart things I'm saying come from tumblr) and I saw this post that said "people who change song lyrics to make them hetero are the worst kind if people" and it got me thinking. Not only do I completely disagree (sexual orientation isn't a choice and no orientation is less than another. Where is the logic in not changing a love song to relate more to yourself?) but it also made me think about what we said about actors and tones changing a role. Well, let's imagine a guy singing Taylor Swift's song You Belong With Me. None of the lyrics are changed, it's all word for word. There are really two options here. Either he's gay or the person the song is written for is. Basically, it's either a guy singing to another guy about how they should be together, or a guy singing to a lesbian about how they should be together. This song couldn't easily be gender-bent easily, anyway. Just changing pronouns it feels like the person the singer is jealous of is a cross dresser and if you try to alter all of it then you mess up the whole melody. So really, it's all a matter of the right person singing the lyrics properly, because too many changes are going to pull the piece apart. 

Branagh Hamlet

I found the characters to be very vivid through the act, however I was a bit confused because I'd read if on my own over break and I felt the characters were a bit different. Exactly like what we spoke of in class I couldn't keep my self from clutching onto the tone of each actor during each line. Here are some of my findings:

Claudius seems just as cold and indifferent as I read him. 

Gertrude seemed far too calm. I feel like she should balance out a bit more with Ophelia. Whereas the queen seems almost cold, Ophelia is a sniveling mess and I pictured her far different. Perhaps it would have gone smoother if the queen was a bit more distressed and Ophelia a bit less. I have a similar feeling when it comes to pollonius. He seemed a bit more impassioned than I expected, but I enjoyed it more, actually I read him as a very cold, conniving, and calculated character. Of course hamlet was absolutely crazy, as was perfectly portrayed by the actor. I'm looking forward to finishing the play so that I can sit down and guiltlessly watch it all. 

3x3 of pretty by Katie Makkai

I hate myself 

Society makes me

You will never

Alternately,

Society is self-mutilating. 

Humans are 3D. 

Now you know. 

3x3 for vacation

Families vacation together. 

Independence requires freedom. 

Everyone loves travel. 

Cast of ye olde Hamlet

Okay so here is my cast for Hamlet. Just know it's not all going to be super professional because some actors I'm just in love with. Also, I cast a lot more characters than we've actually read in the play because I just felt like casting everybody.

The first person I cast was Marcia Harden as Gertrude because I just feel like she's really matronly and nobody's really seeing her do anything regal or royal. She's just done a lot of very stern, religious, mothering roles and I'm curious how that would translate over into her as Queen Gertrude of Denmark.

The second person I cast was Woody Harrelson as Claudius because we know he has experience with being a drunk, thanks to Haymitch and he's good at playing kind of jerk-ish characters that aren't really bad people. Like Claudius, he killed his brother but at the same time he would've been a much better king than Hamlett. Young Hamlet could be because he's actually a decent king and Hamlet is like an emotional wreck; he’s just the classic protagonist for a Shakespeare play.

The third person I cast was Hamlet himself and I cast Chris Hemsworth as Hamlett because he fits the age, first of all, and everyone's age that I have is kind of based off of Chris Hemsworth age because Hamlet is the only one in the play whose age we actually know, so seeing as he's 30 I cast other characters as older or younger than they may seem judging on their difference in age from Hamlett. That's why some of them might seem weird but I cast Chris Hemsworth because you've already seen him as a prince in Thor and I could easily see him playing an emotionally torn kind of just “playing the victim” character who goes a little crazy and tries to avenge his father also like he did in Thor. Even though his father wasn't killed, he kind of avenged the dishonoring of his father.

the next person I cast is a little bit, I just love him as an actor and that's Alan Rickman. I cast him as Polonius because, well, we seen him as a judge in Sweeney Todd and we've seen him as a professor in Harry Potter. He's good at playing authority figures even though Polonius isn't a big authority figure, considering half of the characters are actually royalty but he's still a really important antagonist and the age thing fits because, well, he’s old now, which is a little bit sad but that's okay. He’s just really good at being an awful person on camera and I really think he fits well.

I then casted Norman Reedus as Horatio just because I think he would play really well off of Chris Hemsworth and he is a bit of a tough guy actor. He was already a pretty crazy character in Boondock Saints. He’s played some very loyal characters and I can totally see him telling a story of his friends tragic familial problems after everything is done.

I then casts Moises Arias as Laertes solely because he looks similar to Leah Michelle, who I cast as Ophelia. He even looks like he could be related to Alan Rickman. I really wanted to get the whole family thing kind of together and you can kind of see that Woody Harrelson could be Chris Hemsworth uncle; they look similar enough, and Marcia Harden looks like everybody's mother so that works perfect.

Lea Michelle is good with drama and I think after the kind of soft cushy role that she plays in glee, even though it's emotional, it would be it would be really nice to see her go crazy. Yeah, there’s part of it and the other part is just familial resemblance.

Then I cast James Franco as Fortinbras because the Franco brothers are amazing and he has plenty of experience playing the villain because of Spiderman. He knows how to be emotional, and again, “avenging his father's death” type-characters. I think he fits really well in the character especially opposite some of the other actors that are in here because he seems like such a classic actor to throw in with all of these others that I don't see it going wrong in any way.

Then I cast Christian Bale as Francisco because I wanted Francisco to be a little bit older than Hamlet seeing as the guards all keep referring to him as “Young Hamlet” and things like that so I wanted him to be just a little bit older and it would be kind of funny to see Christian Bale play a semi-minor role in something.

I cast Sean Bean as the ghost because I think he has a really good face for playing a ghost and he has a good look for being royalty. He could easily put on a crown and have a little bit of makeup and some special effects and you look like a ghost. Originally I was looking for a different actor from the Lord of The Rings trilogy which was actually the ghost from Return of The King, however, I think he's an uncredited actor and while looking through the cast I couldn't find him. This was probably because his character doesn't have a name, so yeah, that was difficult but I think Sean Bean is a very good second.

thank you I'm out