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In Broken Images

11/10/2006

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This is a belated post about an examination piece I did in my final year of school. It was in response to a poem by Robert Graves.

In Broken Images

He is quick, thinking in clear images;
I am slow, thinking in broken images. 

He becomes dull, trusting to his clear images;
I become sharp, mistrusting my broken images. 

Trusting his images, he assumes their relevance;
Mistrusting my images, I question their relevance. 

Assuming their relevance, he assumes the fact;
Questioning their relevance, I question the fact. 

When the fact fails him, he questions his senses;
When the fact fails me, I approve my senses. 

He continues quick and dull in his clear images;
I continue slow and sharp in my broken images. 

He in a new confusion of his understanding;
I in a new understanding of my confusion. 

Robert Graves

I arrived at the final piece, through my interpretation of the poem. I looked at Graves' work and saw two minds: a focused 'I' (blue), and a fragmented 'other' (red).
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He is broken, fragmented into little frames, 
little boxes that constrict his mind, restrict his thinking. 
That restricted mine.

I am now a whole, a singular mind and 
I am liberated by his experiences.

He climbs into his box.
I now stand tall thinking out of my box.

He shrinks, infinitely foolish, confused and angered and afraid.
While I simply stand tall, thinking, contemplating, self-enlightening.

Stacey Rumble

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