Introduction
Art creation is an approach humanity uses to express themselves, share experiences, and capture events throughout the entire history. Poetry is the worldwide famous technique with which authors craft fascinating pieces via words and rhymes and makes readers react with strong emotions affecting their brains’ performance and creativity (Wassiliwizky et al., 2017). This paper aims to analyze an inspiring poem, create a similar art, and discuss the connection between them.
Inspiration Piece
Poetry is connecting and inspirational art because it provides a reader with the most precise understanding of the authors’ feelings and recalls empathy. The selected piece is “Sometimes with one I love” crafted by an American classical poet Walt Whitman (1867):
“Sometimes with one I love I fill myself with rage for fear I effuse unreturn’d love,
But now I think there is no unreturn’d love, the pay is certain one way or another
(I loved a certain person ardently and my love was not return’d,
Yet out of that I have written these songs)”.
The poem is a part of Whitman’s Leaves of Grass collection, where the writer shares feelings and observations about human nature, reactions, and emotions. “Sometimes with one I love” reveals the harsh consequences of non-reciprocal love, based on the poet’s life experiences. The poem describes the doubts that occupy a person’s mind after not receiving strong feelings in return. Whitman notes that love always pays off and mentions that it let the poems’ ideas appear.
My Art Piece
Whitman’s piece inspired me to reflect on the expectations individuals have towards love and how they seek an unconditional return. I expressed my thoughts in a free verse piece, the non-rhyme technic Whitman applied in his poetry. I called the creation “The greatest treasure” and wrote:
“When someone is being close to you,
No room for fearing left between.
Give all, let yourself drown in love,
Don’t underestimate the feelings’ stream.
Among all treasures of the world,
Ability to love
Is the main worth”.
I understand and the angry feeling that Whitman describes based on the experience with non-reciprocal love. However, my life’s occasions proved to me the necessity of giving everything to a loved one without expecting any returns. In my piece inspired by the classical poet’s work, I tried to highlight that loving as a process is a treasure, and having a person to express love is the actual value.
Connection
The thematic connection between Whitman’s and mine pieces is the way people perceive love. When people give, they seek to receive equal value in return, and the experience when the expectations do not match with the reality hurt their feelings. Whitman describes the wound that makes individuals doubt if they get what they deserve, while my poem reminds readers of the value of giving love. The pieces have a similar free verse style that helps express complicated feelings in a manner to be understood by a diverse audience. Although both poems highlight that expressing love is beneficial, Whitman describes particular outcomes such as new songs, while I mean the process of sharing feelings in general.
Poetry, as a combination of words and rhymes in a particular language, can be interpreted as a medium for poems. The term is usually applied to painting describes the tools and suppliers used to create an artwork (Shechtman, 2020). Both poems discussed above have the English language applied in free verse as a medium, impacting the audience’s understanding. For example, utilizing particular expressions with the word “love” helps reveal the pieces’ theme and recall a reader’s experience in having that feeling.
Art creation is necessary for people to reflect on their lives, share stories, and encourage others to do the same by crafting pieces about their experience. Analysis of Whitman’s poem and writing my own showed that thinking about the poet’s statements inspires me to express my opinion about love. The pieces with the same medium, poetry technic, thematic vector, and are written in the same language broaden the topic discussed and affect readers’ emotions.
References
Shechtman, A. (2020). The Medium Concept. Representations, 150(1), 61-90. Web.
Wassiliwizky, E., Koelsch, S., Wagner, V., Jacobsen, T., & Menninghaus, W. (2017). The emotional power of poetry: Neural circuitry, psychophysiology and compositional principles.Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12(8), 1229-1240. Web.
Whitman, W. (1867).Sometimes with one I love. The Walt Whitman Archive. Web.