Interpretation on Pastoral Landscape with a Mill:
This poem is obviously about ones thoughts of someone who has passed on. I like this poem focusing on a single person thinking they have all these thoughts in their head but simply the only true thought they really have is about the single tree all of the other thoughts (like the mill and the woman/man who has passed) branch off the tree. Like tree branches. I wanted to create this style with this poem starting with a more depressing tone, the single tree is seen that is lonely like the speaker but the truth is that the tree isn’t lonely there are many things that support the tree much like the memories of the speaker or the reader. The depressing tone goes into a more hopeful tone, asking if the tree has been as lucky as the speaker, the tree has been lucky it is standing very tall in the picture and independent. This interpretation comes from always being told to “remember the memories” whenever I was at funeral, when I had seen the single tree I wanted to give that tree the same story but make a person telling that story.
Interpretation on Wooded Landscape with a Peasant Resting:
I created this poem on the idea of resting. Those moments where you are tired but your mind is keeping you awake. Those late night thoughts that create the ability to create a life you haven’t lived yet, you’re just thinking of so many scenarios and ideas about who you are, the impact you have, or what you’re even doing in life in the current moments. When I seen the image the first sight that caught my eye was the peasant under the tree. I like the specificity of the person given in the title “Peasant Under a Tree”, it made me have an entirely different feeling of what resting, comparing my day of what I think resting is in comparison to what a peasant feels when resting. The nature aspect of this also created a very welcoming and comforting feeling to the idea of the poem. When I seen this picture it felt very relaxing, I can only relate this level of comfort to those moments of resting and it feels good to just close your eyes for a little while. Even if your brain is still working, it feels like your body has just found its peace lying down, not doing anything.
Interpretation on Landscape with an Aqueduct:
I wrote this to create a conversation with the two people in the painting. While the idea behind the painting is a landscape, something so small like the people painted, really caught my eye in the beginning. It is such a common curiosity to have wonder why and how or who these paintings create aspects and different perspectives with. The poem is about a man dying, he is speaking about the aqueducts importance on his life that he created with a wife and child. The concept of death really struck me because someone is leaning into another person within the painting, they are listening closely, perhaps every persons dying wish is that someone is listening to their dying wish. The painting is darker, the clouds are darkish creating some type of intensity within the painting, this became a feeling I also had when creating a poem. The nature of it was very apparent and overwhelming, so it distracts you away from the people. I wanted the intensity of the poem to match the intensity of the painting.
This poem is obviously about ones thoughts of someone who has passed on. I like this poem focusing on a single person thinking they have all these thoughts in their head but simply the only true thought they really have is about the single tree all of the other thoughts (like the mill and the woman/man who has passed) branch off the tree. Like tree branches. I wanted to create this style with this poem starting with a more depressing tone, the single tree is seen that is lonely like the speaker but the truth is that the tree isn’t lonely there are many things that support the tree much like the memories of the speaker or the reader. The depressing tone goes into a more hopeful tone, asking if the tree has been as lucky as the speaker, the tree has been lucky it is standing very tall in the picture and independent. This interpretation comes from always being told to “remember the memories” whenever I was at funeral, when I had seen the single tree I wanted to give that tree the same story but make a person telling that story.
Interpretation on Wooded Landscape with a Peasant Resting:
I created this poem on the idea of resting. Those moments where you are tired but your mind is keeping you awake. Those late night thoughts that create the ability to create a life you haven’t lived yet, you’re just thinking of so many scenarios and ideas about who you are, the impact you have, or what you’re even doing in life in the current moments. When I seen the image the first sight that caught my eye was the peasant under the tree. I like the specificity of the person given in the title “Peasant Under a Tree”, it made me have an entirely different feeling of what resting, comparing my day of what I think resting is in comparison to what a peasant feels when resting. The nature aspect of this also created a very welcoming and comforting feeling to the idea of the poem. When I seen this picture it felt very relaxing, I can only relate this level of comfort to those moments of resting and it feels good to just close your eyes for a little while. Even if your brain is still working, it feels like your body has just found its peace lying down, not doing anything.
Interpretation on Landscape with an Aqueduct:
I wrote this to create a conversation with the two people in the painting. While the idea behind the painting is a landscape, something so small like the people painted, really caught my eye in the beginning. It is such a common curiosity to have wonder why and how or who these paintings create aspects and different perspectives with. The poem is about a man dying, he is speaking about the aqueducts importance on his life that he created with a wife and child. The concept of death really struck me because someone is leaning into another person within the painting, they are listening closely, perhaps every persons dying wish is that someone is listening to their dying wish. The painting is darker, the clouds are darkish creating some type of intensity within the painting, this became a feeling I also had when creating a poem. The nature of it was very apparent and overwhelming, so it distracts you away from the people. I wanted the intensity of the poem to match the intensity of the painting.