Dark+Blue+Reflection

The assignment for writing this piece was to write a poem based off of the picture you were given. I was given a picture of a canvas painted blue. Dark blue to be specific. I wasn't sure what to write about, since looking at the picture didn't trigger any emotions, so I was sitting around, listening to my iPod when the song "Dark Blue" by Jack's Mannequin came on. Immediately I thought of the color of the painting, so I listened to the song, thinking about what it reminded me of. The movement of the song reminded me of struggling underwater in the ocean. It reminded me of being pulled under by a current, and fighting to get back to the surface. With that image in my head, I wrote the piece. I wrote it all down at once, and then played around with wording and format later, and I think that really helped because I had gotten all my thoughts down at the time, and then organized them later, so I hadn't gotten distracted and forgotten what I wanted to say while I was organizing.

In comparing this poem to my other poem, An Ode to a Bubble, they are both written in the same format: short lines, weird breaks in the middle of sentences. However, I think it suits this poem much better than the ode, because it adds a feeling of struggle to the poem, where as in the ode, it just added breaks to the sentence. I also think that my usage of metaphors was much stronger in this poem, because it seemed to fit into the poem more, blend in to the rest of the poem, where as in the ode it felt a little forced. The perspectives were much different though. In the ode I was talking to the bubble, revering the bubble, and interacting with it, where as this poem, I was interacting with the audience, asking for their help, drawing them in.