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 02/21/2005 07:06:58 PM · #26
I still don't get it :\
 02/21/2005 07:08:37 PM · #27
Cuz yer a kid and don't understand the deeper things in life... (sticks tongue out)

Robt.
 02/21/2005 07:10:46 PM · #28

02/21/2005 07:15:08 PM · #29
Originally posted by Konador:
I still don't get it :\

Ben, quoting from one of those big books you don't read ...

metaphor
noun [C or U]
an expression which describes a person or object in a literary way by referring to something that is considered to possess similar characteristics to the person or object you are trying to describe:
'The mind is an ocean' and 'the city is a jungle' are both metaphors.
Metaphor and simile are the most commonly used figures of speech in everyday language.

metaphorically
adverb
The phrase 'born again' is used metaphorically to mean that someone has suddenly become very religious.
By leaving school without any qualifications, she has, metaphorically speaking, shot herself in the foot (= harmed her chances of success).

Robt is likening his 'inner' self to the picture and using his own prose/verse in the title has added a little bit more of himself to the image.

02/21/2005 07:17:55 PM · #30
Do people really sit down and read dictionaries? :P

I understand how its supposed to be metaphorical, but can't any photo of anything be metaphorical since that person envisioned it and shot it? It just does not say self portrait in any way, shape, or form to me, sorry!
 02/21/2005 07:21:54 PM · #31
Originally posted by Konador:
Do people really sit down and read dictionaries? :P

I understand how its supposed to be metaphorical, but can't any photo of anything be metaphorical since that person envisioned it and shot it? It just does not say self portrait in any way, shape, or form to me, sorry!


My Dad does, at 72 years old he still carries his black book with him and every time he hears a word he does not knoe the meaning of he writes it down and looks it up!

As for the portrait Q, I'm with you, a little too abstract for dpc? Maybe the next macro challenge will be filled with wide angle landscapes?
 02/21/2005 07:22:56 PM · #32
Originally posted by Ecce Signum:
Maybe the next macro challenge will be filled with wide angle landscapes?


Thats exactly the comparison I was thinking of.
 02/21/2005 07:26:21 PM · #33
Originally posted by Konador:
Do people really sit down and read dictionaries? :P

Of course -- I have a whole collection of dictionaries.

Here's a new one which might be more fun than usual to read, although it's not complete yet ...
 02/21/2005 07:31:58 PM · #34
GeneralE you would..sigh..I don't even own one.
 02/21/2005 07:34:26 PM · #35
LOL

I have 6 dictionaries in print form and the OED on CD....

Robt.
 02/21/2005 07:35:08 PM · #36
Please...
 02/21/2005 07:35:42 PM · #37

Here's a new one which might be more fun than usual to read, although it's not complete yet ... [/quote]

Just when I thought I had seen it all, I realize I have not seen anything.... Thanks for the link GeneralE :)
 02/21/2005 07:35:53 PM · #38
Originally posted by bear_music:
and the OED on CD....


That must be useful to you! :)
 02/21/2005 07:37:23 PM · #39
In my other online life I moderate a poetry workshop, and the OED is indispensible there...

Robt.
 02/21/2005 07:40:01 PM · #40
I personally did not score it high, but I really appriciate your attitude and the different take on the contest.
 02/21/2005 07:40:54 PM · #41
Originally posted by bear_music:
In my other online life I moderate a poetry workshop, and the OED is indispensible there...

Robt.


Robt, whilst I still feel your submission was too wide of the mark for a dpc portrait challenge, I'd love to see some of your work with an accompanying poem -great poster opportunities?
 02/21/2005 07:46:07 PM · #42
Originally posted by bear_music:
In my other online life I moderate a poetry workshop, and the OED is indispensible there...

Robt.


I'm stupid, I thought CD... CD Player... Audio CD! But now I realise you mean a CD ROM
 02/21/2005 07:46:43 PM · #43
I've never actually "illustrated" a poem...

However, here's a couple poems:

**************

Stuck Life — 2004

Whoever made this unsigned, clumsy work
laid out these fruits, these flowers, arranged these jugs
of water or wine (I cannot tell) in such
an artless disarray as I must judge
his passion by the passion of his brush.

I see him in his studio; backlit, slumped
outside the frame of what he̢۪s painted in.
How easy to imagine him at ease,
perhaps his mistress at his side, his pipe
sparking ashes across his spattered breeches.

His tinctured fingers coil, comb out his beard;
a last, vague curl of smoke hangs in still air.
And she, perhaps, looks up past him, admiring
what must, to her, seem magical affect,
the living flesh of fading fruit preserved —

Lemon and orange, persimmon, tangerine,
more vivid each than the gnawed melon she sees
rotting on the table at his knees.

********************

My Secret Kept Alive — 2003

Familiar of soil am I.
I age more root than tree.
I wear the worm's blind mask.
I feed on twisted stone.
A bitter beast at heart,
and hollow to the bone,
become a green thing's source,
I go where blind worms go.

My secret kept alive
by bitter care and deep
pillowed against the cold
light of that world above,
couched here in soil and stone,
I make my home at last,
bitter at the bone
and fading, but not lost.

Sorrow becomes my hope.
Longing is my joy.
I make my way unwatched,
unnoticed and unheard.
Secret in my pure
attempt at staying whole,
at home where blind worms go,
I seek myself alone.

All green things know my pain.
Whatever grows, is mine.
Root, tree, leaf, bursting forth
from soil to light, wear me
as an emerging shroud
and daily grow less blind.
It is my secret, this:
the green thing has my eyes.

Now let a green force spring
from twisted stone to light,
singing for joy and pain
in blind ecstatic thrust
of what has been against
the hope of what might be,
of all things lost, now found
in flesh that twines to me...

**************

Robt.

02/21/2005 07:47:21 PM · #44
Originally posted by GeneralE:
I have a whole collection of dictionaries.

Here are a few of mine.

02/21/2005 07:49:22 PM · #45
You rock, Koriyama!

Robt.
 02/21/2005 07:53:10 PM · #46
Ok first for a bit of silliness, I have come up with what I call the bear index, simply the average vote I have given Robert for all his submissions, where I have voted, my bear index is 5.89.

The portrait challenge was hard for me to vote on because a persons view of self is pretty personal and who am I to say what that should be. Over all I will try pretty hard to see how a photo meets the challenge and I don̢۪t give a photo a vote of one just because it does not seem to meet that challenge. To get a 1 from me is pretty hard, although I think there are some people trying pretty hard to do jus that. I will tend to give higher votes to those photos that I think communicate the challenge well, and don̢۪t feel bad about doing so since photography is about communication.

In a way meeting the challenge can be view in a similar way as a structure form of poetry, the constraints become part of the art, hopefully more like Haiku then say a Limerick. And if you feel that it is not possible to be creative under these restrictions I would have you look at heida̢۪s body of work.
heida
 02/21/2005 07:55:06 PM · #47
Years ago, when I took photography in school, I guarantee if I turned in that photo for a self-portrait assignment, I would have gotten it back with this written on it in wide tip marker: Mr. Morris, are you telling me you a large drip? And also, there would be a large "F" on it.

One of your 3s came from me because as I saw it, the photo was great but didn't meet the challenge.

Also, those poems are great!
 02/21/2005 07:56:57 PM · #48
Robt. very very nice poems. Also liked your self portrait. Gave it a 7. It is a joy to read some of your writings. I humblely bow my head to you...

john
 02/21/2005 08:03:43 PM · #49
Interesting poetry. I enjoy poems that eschew rhyme and meter for equivocal imagery.
 02/21/2005 08:06:40 PM · #50
Tnax, JOhn, Tommy, Bledford.

Technically, "My Secret kept Alive" uses consonance, assonance and rhyme to attain a similar effect to rhyme. I'm basically a formal poet, most of my stuff rhymes. And it's all metrical.

Robt.

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