picture poems

In this assignment we read some more poems but these poems were accompanied by a picture they were describing. One poem i found particularly interesting was the "Van Gogh's Bed" Mainly because it was a short poem but secondly because i have never seen a poem done in this style. If you read it, you notice that befor each stanza you have to place "Van Gogh's Bed" In front of it for it to make sense.

"Is Orange
like Cinderellas coach, like
the sun when he looked it
straight in the eye"
If you dont place the title in front of it you havent got a clue as to what the author is describing as Orange or like Cinderellas Coach.

"Is narrow
he slepft, tossing
between two pillows, while it carried him
bumbpily along"

which is thr second stanza. As you can see placing the Title at the begining of each is the only way to know how it relates to the story. The poem main thing is that it ise describing this bedroom which aparently is Van Gogh's

The second poem i liked was "The Great Figure" because it shows you his first draft of the poem and the final draft, and it kind of shows yous how something you start off with NEVER ends how you expected it too, his first draft is a little more desribtive and more wordy but the final is short and to the point. If you look at the picture you see there is a GIANT number 5 but it gets smaller as it goes back, which in my mind says "Its actully very small but the reason they make the third and final one so big is to put your mind onto the fact that this poem is about the number 5..." while not so Brilliant that even a 2 year old would get that message, i just thought it nice to give that few as well...

The "Mourning picture" which is the final poem in the set we were given to read only attracts me because i recognize the picture but from where i do not know. i feel like i have seen this picture before, and the poem does an excellent job of portraying the picture on the service and what is expressed underneath the meanings of the differnt objects and people in the picture