When comparing the poem “Crocuses” to the painting “Guernica” one can conclude that the main theme within both works is death. If we look at the painting “Guernica”, immediately one would see images of death, pain and suffering. As history has stated the painting depicts the atrocity of war in the Spanish town of Guernica, as images portray dying children, women and men;so does the poem “Corcuses” as seen here in stanzas five and six “of lurid bruises on the frightened faces, and naked bodies of men, women, children.” Also in Picasso’s painting, there are images of frightened faces, looking up to the sky as if to fear something above. Both artists were emotionally connected to the events which inspired them to create their pieces. Although both works may have been created at different times both carry a tone of sadness,which tells the readers and the viewers of both pieces that both poet and painter were in a melancholy, dark and depressed state of mind while recreating such a serious and sad event.
The way I would define poetry is a different language of communicating. It is a way of expressing your joys, sadness, pain, excitement, and love for a person or a thing. I used to write poems as a way to let people know who I feel about a certain situation or how I felt about a person. This was a way of escape from the world for me. However I have not written anything in a long period of time. Perhaps taken this class is means for me to reconnect and start writing again.
There is one thing in poetry that always stood out to me. No matter how you read the poem there will always be different ways to interpret it. Poetry can come in many different ways, shapes and forms. I have forgotten the different types of poems that there are. I do remember haikus but nothing else. As much as I enjoy writing the poems I also enjoy reading them. Poetry to me means literature are those words put together that can touch you in a certain way. It is very similar to songs and the way people sign them. They become that more powerful when said in the right way.
Both Guernica and Crocuses depicts lurid crimes by men. In Guernica it was the Germans defeating and destroying the Spanish in a brutal way. For the Crocuses it was man again, stripping them naked, their tender stems bear and their shivering petals looks like purple bruised faces as man lead them out to the clearing to awaiting trains and trucks. In Guernica the same destructions can be seen. The Germans came in and brutally attacked the Spanish leaving them broken and battered, bruised and dead, man women and children .Some reaching out shivering with fear like the petals in Crocuses.
Both poem and painting depicts one theme: The destructive nature of man to himself and nature.
In both pieces as Guernica the piece of artwork depicting the bombing during the Spanish Civil War in Guernica and in the poem Crocuses shows another death sequence. I can say both pieces show a connection within each other the connection is an event taking place like a war. But, not just an ordinary the kind that is like a civil war kind of thing where other woman, men and children were murder in the Crocusus poem. As in a war children don’t get murdered this kind of horrific event is likely to happen in a civil war. The two pieces show this massacre in a scene of a war going on as it is stated in Crocusus “blue and mauve of bruises on the naked” describing the agony and pain caused by some kind of violent event perhaps as I said before a war.
In the painting Guernica shows agony and pain the war caused for people as you see people are crying, screaming, and some are dying on the ground.