Poems - DPChallenge Forums

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11/03/2004 03:42:53 PM · #4

I don't think this is just like a free study. We have already done movie titles, song titles, and book titles I believe, so why is this any different? Songs are just poems with music anyway.

~Kate

Message edited by author 2004-11-03 15:43:22.

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11/03/2004 03:46:48 PM · #5

Maybe it's time we try a hybrid/limited version of one of these challenges ... let (someone, SC) come up with a list of maybe 3-12 titles, from which we'd choose to interpret one.

toddhead

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11/03/2004 03:46:56 PM · #6

How about "She Walks in Beauty" by Lord Byron... my favorite poem of all time.

Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)

11/03/2004 03:48:29 PM · #7

Originally posted by toddhead:

How about "She Walks in Beauty" by Lord Byron... my favorite poem of all time.

I imagine that would be a popular topic, especially with (a few of) the voters : )

So, I'll nominate "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes, also turned into a song by Phil Ochs.

Message edited by author 2004-11-03 15:49:29.

EddyG

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11/03/2004 03:56:57 PM · #8

Originally posted by kate12303:

I don't think this is just like a free study. We have already done movie titles, song titles, and book titles I believe, so why is this any different?

Because the description says "any poem". Meaning it doesn't have to be a famous or well-known poem.

That means I can take a picture of anything, write a poem about it (or even just claim to have written a poem about it) and submit a picture of anything I want. In other words, exactly like a free study...

DianaB

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11/03/2004 04:02:58 PM · #9

For greater diversity what about interpreting a single line in any poem given? (Making one line within the given poem the title of the photo)

Canon EOS-60D

Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS

11/03/2004 04:04:01 PM · #10

Just a few of my faves that might lead to interesting photographs...

"Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Go Down Death" or "The Creation" by James Weldon Johnson

"Hope is the Thing With Feathers" by Emily Dickinson

wkmen

Olympus SP-570 UZ

11/03/2004 04:13:58 PM · #11

Along these lines, maybe assign a specific poet, so:

Coleridge challenge, or
Kipling challenge, or
Dickinson challenge, or
Bronte challenge, or
Byron challenge, or
Poe challenge,
etc.

Which poet would you nominate to be the subject of a challenge?

DianaB

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11/03/2004 04:20:25 PM · #12

Which poet would you nominate to be the subject of a challenge? [/quote]

yikes - INDECISION. Too many to choose from.

wkmen

Olympus SP-570 UZ

11/03/2004 04:22:17 PM · #13

I think Edgar Allan Poe would make for some interesting shots, ranging from the beautiful to the strange.

thatcloudthere

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11/03/2004 04:22:54 PM · #14

Shel Silverstein.

No, really.

SteveJ

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Canon EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM

11/03/2004 04:23:28 PM · #15

I write poems...anyone want to commission me for that challenge?

Give me a topic,
I'll make it rhyme,
Whatever subject you want,
Just give me some time!!

kate12303

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11/03/2004 04:26:47 PM · #16

Originally posted by EddyG:

Originally posted by kate12303:
I don't think this is just like a free study. We have already done movie titles, song titles, and book titles I believe, so why is this any different?

Because the description says "any poem". Meaning it doesn't have to be a famous or well-known poem.

That means I can take a picture of anything, write a poem about it (or even just claim to have written a poem about it) and submit a picture of anything I want. In other words, exactly like a free study...

"Challenge: Song Titles
Rules: Classic Editing
Details: Pick a song you like, and take a photograph that might represent the song or song title in some way."

This just says a song I like, so I guess I could have taken a picture of anything, written a song about it, or claimed to have written a song about it, and submitted it then, but since the point of DPC is to be challenged and creative, I happened to pick a song that was well known.

What's the point of participating in challenges if you're just going to be sneaky about it?

~Kate

Tranquil

Sigma 105mm f/2.8 EX DG Macro for Canon

11/03/2004 04:27:31 PM · #17

Jabberwocky
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

DianaB

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Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

11/03/2004 04:34:04 PM · #18

I believe I recall a submission to DPC called "All mimsy were the borogoves"...now.... where was it and who did it? I remember it being very good too.

bpickard

Fujifilm FinePix S3000

11/03/2004 04:44:46 PM · #19

This was it Diana

..by Jesuispeure
I liked it too.

zeuszen

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Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

11/03/2004 04:47:56 PM · #20

Creatively capture an image that conveys the idea of "poetry" to your viewer. There is poetry of form, of images, of nature, dance etc.

We've had a "Music" challenge...

kosmikkreeper

Nikon D300s

Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II

11/03/2004 04:52:53 PM · #21

How a bout a George W. poem... here's my shot. :-)

Smile... it's a joke. :-)

Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)

11/03/2004 04:58:46 PM · #22

Originally posted by wkmen:

Along these lines, maybe assign a specific poet, so:

Kipling challenge ...

Kipling was wrong ... they seem to meet at this on-ramp.

Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)

11/03/2004 04:59:45 PM · #23

Originally posted by kosmikkreeper:

How a bout a George W. poem... here's my shot. :-)

Smile... it's a joke. :-)

Mine wasn't ... : (

bledford

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

11/03/2004 05:05:47 PM · #24

Thomas Hardy's work has some good imagery...

----The Darkling Thrush-----
I LEANT upon a coppice gate
When Frost was spectre-gray,
And Winterâ��s dregs made desolate
The weakening eye of day.
The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
Like strings of broken lyres,
And all mankind that haunted nigh
Had sought their household fires.

The landâ��s sharp features seemâ��d to be
The Centuryâ��s corpse outleant,
His crypt the cloudy canopy,
The wind his death-lament.
The ancient pulse of germ and birth
Was shrunken hard and dry,
And every spirit upon earth
Seem'd fervourless as I.

At once a voice arose among
The bleak twigs overhead
In a full-hearted evensong
Of joy illimited;
An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,
In blast-beruffled plume,
Had chosen thus to fling his soul
Upon the growing gloom.

So little cause for carollings
Of such ecstatic sound
Was written on terrestrial things
Afar or nigh around,
That I could think there trembled through
His happy good-night air
Some blessÃ¨d Hope, whereof he knew
And I was unaware.