During the past two weeks, we had to read three articles and one which was a poem during any spare time we had. The poem we read was called "This is a Photograph of Me" by Margaret Atwood.
The poem is very short and it talks about a old photograph and the details such as how it seems all smeared and hard to see at first but when you look deep into the photo there is a branch and a house. In the background there is a lake and some hills.
But then all the sudden there is a heart beat in you when it tells you the photograph was taken the day when the character drowned. The reason why their is a sudden heart beat because you didn't know at first their is a person involved directly in the poem and plus you wonder what happened to the person that drowned due to the fact that it was so unexpected. Later in the poem, the story teller introduces facts about her in the picture and how she is hard to see in the picture.
After reading this poem, my reaction was how did the author add so much details in such a small poem.
This poem relates to the real world how old photos that were taken get faded during the years but twenty yeas later when you re-look at the photo again, many memories come rushing back to you again even through you can only see some parts of the picture.
This poem also relates to class because in media arts, we look at many photos and each photo we take must contain at least some kind of feeling in it. Overall this photo taught a lot about how examining photos can contain small objects that contain big lively contents.
