subUrban Legends - Poetry Assignment

Hi, it's Lucy.

And today I'll be doing my suburban Legends Poetry assignment

presentation. So to start off, we have the theme.

So second, So I came up with a couple themes.

The main one I kind of based my products around

is more of a thesis.

But basically it's about how trauma are traumatic experiences, influence,

decision making.

Some other ones I came up with were pessimism, hopelessness

and irony.

But based on the main theme or thesis, it's kind

of talking.

I'm tryingto like, kind of make it talk about how

people will choose to either face or avoid the factors

off their traumatic experience.

And within the syriza poems, what I see is that

the character and narrator is avoiding their path and avoiding

the storyline of the very tell, because it's not what

they want.

Um, which is, I think it's pretty reasonable, because in

this in the fairy tale, even though in mice it's

like narrated to be, ah, happy ending.

There are many parts that are masked and just not

talked about.

So it seemed like a happy ending, but it really

isn't so.

It makes sense that the characters trying to avoid it

However, while they're trying to avoid it, they end up,

um kind involving themselves in a very similar situation.

They just have different expectations put upon them.

And really, all the decisions they make are based on

the fact that they're trying to avoid going back to

their first situation.

Yeah, um, So onto the poetry analysis there a couple

aspects that lead me to my conclusion, For example, the

use of a fairy tale I found was quite interesting

as it kind of, um pointed out the fact that

everyone's trying to live this perfect life even though there

really isn't this possibility of a perfect life.

Things they're just masked to make it seem perfect and

a majority of people, rather than just straight on figuring

out their problems and just gradually improving their own situation,

they just decide to mask it up in order to

achieve that perfect life.

Um, so for the use of fairy tales, I think

it's really good contrast to show how it's not realistic.

Essentially another idea is the seasons, so winter versus spring

is the main one that is shown throughout the poems.

I also put this as a motif, but Basically, my

idea is that the use seasons is as a cycle,

and I kind of saw it within the timeline of

the poems to it seemed as if we were starting

in winter, and then it kind of went like spring

edge with back to winter because it kind of follows

the feelings of the character, too.

But then it eventually goes through spring and summer and

autumn and right back to injured.

And the point of that in from how I see

it, is how it's a cycle that people have to

go through and haven't understand that instead of avoiding their

situation, they have to fix it in order to move

on. Um, a couple other ideas I had that were

more that could also be seen as motifs were the

stains and shadows.

They I see them quite.

I, like, noticed them quite a lot about the poems.

Um, and I kind of saw them as how she's

still stained by her experiences in the past.

And his shadow is her experiences following her all along

and she feels think hostility towards it.

Um, and also sicknesses and injured, like injuries or illnesses,

were mentioned a lot, and the way I see is

how there's like this illness within her that just keeps

getting worse and worse as she avoids her situation.

And it will only get better once she kind of

notices it where acknowledges it and decides to trying to

cure it.

Um, a smaller idea is like the aspect of Apple's,

which is made, goes It kind of just solidifies idea

that she was trying to find something to replace an

object of her past which once again kind of points

out how she's not moving on.

She's just trying to replace things.

And, yeah, doesn't.

I just don't really think it helps when they try

to replace them.

You know what I mean?

Like rather than replacing them with another object to try

and avoid the facts that they are traumatized by this

thing, they should be finding something completely new with a

new meaning and not just to replace it.

Um, moving on to my visual, I apologize for it.

We're, ah, being kind of low quality and possibly hard

to see.

I did use pencil for some portions of it.

Um, I was gonna zoom in and basically talk about

how my visual represents the theme, uh, are carnage hard

to make us?

So it's like she's looking through one lens while she's

trying to find herself in her own path and which

I'll explain a bit more in the next portion.

But, um, the mirror is the post Rip Santo character

is kind of seeing a version off herself within that

mirror. She's also seeing things that she thinks she wants.

However, she only really wants them because she's trying to

avoid her situation.

Um, I guess the point is that she's looking through

one lens, and this one lens is caused by her

traumatic experience.

And now, on to the details of the visual.

I'm just gonna go back to the visual.

Um, so a couple of the details are for the

lens. I made it model tone, and I kind of

blew out the sides to make it focus on her

because her focus is kind of on herself.

Um, and this monotone is also supposed to create this

lack of energy and how, rather than this perfect fairy

tale, they kind of the author really showed the dark

side to this very tail and how not everything is

perfect. Uh, furthermore.

Ah, there are a couple colored portions, but those are

the portions that are either part of the fairy till

that she wants to avoid or kind of.

The new fairy told us she created that she's trying

to go into trying to, you know, enjoy her freedom,

trying to create this new storyline for herself.

But she just end up creating a new storyline with

basically the same kind of situation as the first story

line she was in, Um, the mirror.

I kind of talked about a little bit, but there

are a few portions are a little bit hard to

see, but the mirror has, like a really pretty fancy

frame kind of shows how that is, what societal expectations

put upon people.

They're supposed to be these perfect rule models, you know,

good looking.

They gotta be well presented everything, however, that it's really

hard to see.

But there are some cracks in the mirror and those

cracks responsible to represent how this is this false idea

that people have off perfection and that is really not

achievable. Um, and I kind of talked about a little

bit before, but it's kind of was represent how nothing

will ever be perfect.

But because it is this idea out there, people feel

a need to try and match it.

Try and, you know, even go over that measure that

has Arabian sit, and they do so by covering up

the problems, their lives, to make it seem perfect rather

than gradually improving their situation.

And, you know, improving things to the best of their

ability and for to the best of their own interests.

They do so to kind of prove to other people

that they're doing well.

Um, I also put in a shadow that's following the

girl, and in time I can talk about this a

little bit earlier.

But the shadows supposed to represent, like all her problems,

were just following her along her way, even though she's

trying to leave them behind her.

She really basis all her actions on her problems from

before. She's like she's not fixing it, though she's based

interactions off the fact that she's trying to avoid it.

I also put in the contrast of the seasons or

the weather because I noticed that it was mentioned a

lot that winter was kind of associated with, um, the

more like depressing side and the more broken side.

While spring was more so, she was life and, like

happiness, settlement over and I eso essentially over.

Oh, I also forgot to mention that the mirror is

round. Teoh kind of represent this round appearance that they're

supposed have, rather than like a sharp mirror.

It's post ribs and how they're such good people, essentially.

And there's also no face because the character doesn't feel

like they have an identity and kind of trying to

search for search for it.

Um, which I kinds on the portion where she left

her husband to live somewhere else.

But she still didn't feel fulfilled because she felt like

empty, lonely.

And then the other portion about the wolves.

Um, that should be about it.

So since that is the end, thank you for your

timeto watch my presentation.

There may be a couple parts that are slightly unclear

expectations from a little bit nervous to film it.

So, um, is there are any questions?

Um, I guess I could try and clear up what

I'm trying to say if we email or use the

Dropbox and I'll probably also including image off my visual

in a drop box.

Anyways, thank you for watching

subUrban Legends - Poetry Assignment

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