I decided to spell out the phrase “The succesful gentleman said take a seat” as it seemed relevant to my current life. As a college student, it seems that my entire life is seemingly centered around finding a job or internship for the summer and my time after college. It is really quite a stressful …
For this assignment, “A Human Development”, I created this quote: “If I deserve nothing, You don’t know enough to believe in the worth of anybody”. I find that throughout anyone’s life, there is bound to be someone who brings us down and does not appreciate us for our worth. Thus,Read More >
I created a poem about minimalism from a page in Ragged Dick. The poem reads, “Some people had never much interest four [sic] dollars” The point of the poem is to express that despite our whole society revolving around money, there are a lot of people who simply do not care for material wealth. I …
I really enjoyed this project– it reminded me of activities we did in slam poetry club in high school. I found it so enjoyable that I made 3 visual poems. The first one (with the trees and the road) says “Hope that distance to somebody shines an eye.” I felt like this phrase encapsulated the …
This piece is made from pg 9 of Ragged Dick. The words I have chosen go in this order: unhappy, tried to break free, But failed, swallow fate, Life. It veers towards the more negative vibe. I think these set of words could have several different meanings for different people, but for me, I take it as being stuck in a perpetual cycle in the norms of society. It is a rather pessimistic view of the world, but I take it…
I used the second page of the chapter 6 of Dickens‘s novel Great Expectations to create this visual “poem” (though strictly speaking, it is not a real poem). The way I was trying to make it in the beginning was that I jumped around paragraph and paragraph to pick up random words, with an intention to use “I” and “You” to create this poem. I wanted to completely jump out of the original book’s context and made something totally different. But I found out it was so hard to make it possible, so I changed my strategy to read through the page …
To distress they be born Success made hard Where indomitable wealth stewards the creation of wealth in no man This poem, which I am calling “The Wall,” was created by selecting words off of a book page. This particular page was discussing the life of Andrew Carnegie, who many will know as a steel
I used the first page of chapter 56 of Dickens‘s novel Great Expectations to make a visual poem. I based my poem on the sick prisoner but stripped out many of his personal traits. I did not describe the character’s gender, physical features, or appearance, leaving his image to the reader’s imagination. I emphasized the prisoners illness …
I was surprised to see how the page helped me reinforce the statement in my drawing. I intended to theme […]
Although I am certainly not the type to craft sappy love poems or optimistic views of the world, I did not expect this poem to…
