10-21-2021, 02:52 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-21-2021, 02:52 AM by RiverNotch.)
in an emotional state right now, lol, but hey, this is misc
misspelled cameraman
i didn't really get the poem in my first few reads, but coming back to it, yeah, while it would be more interesting to really, idk, digest the scene, i feel like the point here is to convey some sort of metaphor about the civil war? like, to bring out what the photographer probably intended. it's not a remarkable ekphrasis, i think, in that it doesn't bring something distinctively its own -- it doesn't seem, to me, lush or dense enough -- but, as an exercise, it seems clean. not quite what i would have honed in on -- i'd like to see the contents of that letter, or perhaps to feel what those freedmen are feeling serving these white men, and i don't think the man with the crossed arms was either unaware or disapproving -- but it's a nice read for precisely that.
misspelled cameraman
i didn't really get the poem in my first few reads, but coming back to it, yeah, while it would be more interesting to really, idk, digest the scene, i feel like the point here is to convey some sort of metaphor about the civil war? like, to bring out what the photographer probably intended. it's not a remarkable ekphrasis, i think, in that it doesn't bring something distinctively its own -- it doesn't seem, to me, lush or dense enough -- but, as an exercise, it seems clean. not quite what i would have honed in on -- i'd like to see the contents of that letter, or perhaps to feel what those freedmen are feeling serving these white men, and i don't think the man with the crossed arms was either unaware or disapproving -- but it's a nice read for precisely that.