Thursday, May 20, 2010
THE CUTTING PROW
This poem was more like a story to me. Describing the part of a life of an old crippled man who enjoys painting, and was a former artist. Since he was wheelchair ridden he couldnt really paint the way he wanted. So he started cut shapes out of anything and seemed to create a sort of collage. As for the end, the scissors became his master tool instead of a paintbrush or pencil and the sound affects were the only sound you heard as he worked so it was emphasized as an important aspect of his work. I really enjoyed reading it and I wonder what happened before and after this point in his life.
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The painter is Henri Matisse (check out some of his works on Google images); what is the significance of the image constellation scissor-scepter-cutting prow? think about the compiling of metaphoric suggestions. How do they interrelate, as images, and why "cutting prow" (the scissor of course becomes the cutting prow, but in what sense)? This poem, like Ferlinghetti's "Don't Let That Horse," has something to say about the value of poetry
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