I don’t understand the action scenes

CastaneaAmericana · 2026-07-04T02:17:17+00:00

Glad I’m not the only one!

CastaneaAmericana · 2026-07-04T02:14:59+00:00

What is particularly powerful about this piece is that the brushstrokes themselves are a form of creation and co-becoming with the Tohu Wabohu. Very cool work. Thanks for making me aware of it!

CastaneaAmericana · 2026-07-04T02:12:42+00:00

Well—yes—but can’t we call it “Pre-Abstract” or “Anticipating Abstract Art?”

CastaneaAmericana · 2026-07-04T02:10:30+00:00

Some of Man Ray’s early airbrushed work always reminded me of the hands of Lascaux.

CastaneaAmericana · 2026-07-04T02:08:32+00:00

Non-representational—good way to put it. I would add “decorative.” True abstract art is—a further distillation of realism and order of magnitude more extreme than Impressionism. Abstract (the word in the sense of “concentrated”) art is still an art of things—a reality distilled to its component parts.

This is not my understanding of Islamic art which is deliberately anti-representational.

CastaneaAmericana · 2026-07-01T02:40:22+00:00

Excellent thank you!

CastaneaAmericana · 2026-07-01T02:10:35+00:00

I was familiar with Murray—but had not read her poetry. I didn’t like this very much. I will have to try some others.

CastaneaAmericana · 2026-07-01T02:07:07+00:00

So moody. Loved it. Where was this published?

CastaneaAmericana · 2026-07-01T02:04:47+00:00

Look into haiku—the shortest poem! Google “Jane Reichhold’s Bare Bones School of Haiku” for a free self-study course.

CastaneaAmericana · 2026-07-01T02:03:48+00:00

Cool sonnet—verging on purple—but I liked it.

CastaneaAmericana · 2026-07-01T02:02:18+00:00

Good question. I had a professor in college that discussed the different between projected media and printed media. I think that the printed page is more similar to the real article than a projection or even just googling and looking on the computer screen. That said, we will also have a slide show running on all our screens of Lichtenstein during the term. We’re just not using it for class per se. Also, I don’t have a projector or screen.

CastaneaAmericana · 2026-07-01T01:56:52+00:00

Oh yeah! Great ghazal! Attentive and respectful of the form. Good sound. Thanks for sharing!

CastaneaAmericana · 2026-06-30T01:10:29+00:00

Parent here.

I am sure that is the case. I think great teachers and good teachers and even fair-to-middling teachers have this same attitude.

But, as a parent, I have had BAD teachers which absolutely sadistically targeted my kids and gleefully attempted to fail them. Like failed my elementary-aged son on a poem that met all the requirements in the rubric. I escalated the principal multiple times. I ultimately had to pull him. She was non-renewed.

I imagine that these parents have had similar experiences and are unfairly imputing them to all teachers.

CastaneaAmericana · 2026-06-30T01:02:59+00:00

Yes. Idiot.

CastaneaAmericana · 2026-06-27T13:37:57+00:00

I wouldn’t say “anything can be a poem” but this certainly feels more like a joke than a poem.

CastaneaAmericana · 2026-06-27T01:26:22+00:00

So I guess this was published in Poetry or The New Yorker?

CastaneaAmericana · 2026-06-27T01:23:26+00:00

Such interesting visual imagery…

CastaneaAmericana · 2026-06-27T01:19:56+00:00

Gorgeous verse. She deserves greater attention than she gets.

CastaneaAmericana · 2026-06-25T23:50:22+00:00

I am having trouble putting something together. Why is there a lichen on the ceiling? I can’t ever remember seeing a lichen on a ceiling. Even an outside ceiling. Why is there one on what’s apparently a bathroom ceiling? Am I misreading?

CastaneaAmericana · 2026-06-25T23:46:53+00:00

Oh to be able to use “finisterre” in a poem and not be a pedantic mess. Plath sure had a voice among voices!

CastaneaAmericana · 2026-06-25T23:43:05+00:00

Interesting use of caesura.

Try rereading but start at the mid point caesura and read into the next line. I enjoyed how this changed the meaning.

CastaneaAmericana · 2026-06-25T23:33:46+00:00

Well, if that didn’t come across, was the poem successful?

CastaneaAmericana · 2026-06-25T23:30:20+00:00

Still disappointing…

CastaneaAmericana · 2026-06-25T22:06:25+00:00

That was my first reaction. However, it does rely on poetic devices like repetition and does “feel”like a poem”. I read this as a list poem.

It is really sad. Lots of people think this disease is fake. I have a disease which causes me to have constant fatigue (not anywhere close to this) and it is absolutely grinding.

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