The Artist

[ponykeeper]

You’ve gotten some great comments on this already so I won’t go into line by line detail. I do agree about the repetitiveness of the opening lines. It’s an interesting idea you have about the artist’s tears, but they puzzle me. I know, being a painter myself, that tears are not, as a rule, involved in the process (unless the work is going really badly, but in that case the colours would not be thanking the artist I’m thinking). For me it’s almost as if the first half of the poem hasn’t been written yet.-- These tears stemming from such and such have resulted in a masterpiece. I’m left wondering why.
I hope my comments are of some help, I enjoyed thinking about this.