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Poems to See by: A Comic Artist Interprets Great Poetry
by Julian Peters
What a charming book. Most of the drawings, such as Maya Angelou's Why Does The Caged Bird Sing? and Poe's Annabel Lee, were more straightforward interpretations of the subject matter. Others were either startling or poignant in their juxtaposition of poem and image. Colouring and style varies from jagged black and white to soft colour (not having any artistic talent beyond stick figures, that's the best way I can describe it).
Favourites:
Before the Battle, which shows frightened soldiers preparing for war. The expressions on their faces, the glimpse of sky halved by a shred of barbed wire - it all complements the poem perfectly.
When You Are Old by Yeats - beautiful drawings, and the anime/manga style was unexpected but vivid. It worked well with the poem's theme of lost love.
Ozymandias shows a succession of conquering nations, ending with the ISIS flag. Similarly, The World is Too Much With Us has mobile phones to represent 'the world', and Carl Sandburg's The Buffaloes has the titular animals stampeding, transparent as ghosts, across carparks.
Least Favourites:
The comic interpretation perhaps didn't suit Spring and Fall and The Force that Through the Green Fuse considering their subject matter - Dylan in particular is full of life force, and the comic style chosen seemed too soft to convey it. This is not so much a reflection on the drawings as on my own mental images of those poems, which are quite different from the artist's interpretation.
Favourites:
Before the Battle, which shows frightened soldiers preparing for war. The expressions on their faces, the glimpse of sky halved by a shred of barbed wire - it all complements the poem perfectly.
When You Are Old by Yeats - beautiful drawings, and the anime/manga style was unexpected but vivid. It worked well with the poem's theme of lost love.
Ozymandias shows a succession of conquering nations, ending with the ISIS flag. Similarly, The World is Too Much With Us has mobile phones to represent 'the world', and Carl Sandburg's The Buffaloes has the titular animals stampeding, transparent as ghosts, across carparks.
Least Favourites:
The comic interpretation perhaps didn't suit Spring and Fall and The Force that Through the Green Fuse considering their subject matter - Dylan in particular is full of life force, and the comic style chosen seemed too soft to convey it. This is not so much a reflection on the drawings as on my own mental images of those poems, which are quite different from the artist's interpretation.