Pinch Pot: Narrative & Poetry

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DevArt: http://rashaka.deviantart.com/art/Pinch-Pot-Narrative-Poetry-84775337



I made this in UCI's intro ceramics class... it was the first project and ended up my best project of the year. I put a lot of thought into the design, and chose the words from my favorite poems.

Outer circle was meant to be a sun design, but it took on an almost petal-like quality. There center is obviously a moon, and rabbits in between. The rabbits took a while... I redrew them several times to make sure I could get a very simple image that portrayed movement and countered the two circles with a trinity/triangle shape.

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cummings is my favorite, but I really came to like the Donne "Song" poem after reading Howl's Moving Castle. I actually like the second stanza more than the more-recognizable opening stanza.

For all three poems (and go check out the two poems but cummings... they are linked at DevArt in the deviation notes) I picked language that had a very natury/spiritual/imaginative tone. Pretty words about seasons and symbology and philosophy and dreaming.

"anyone lived in a pretty how town" is one of the most gorgeous and lyrical poems I've ever read... there's at least 3 levels of word-play and meaning, lovely figurative language, and there's a love story of sorts in it too. I once wrote a paper on it for a poetry class, and every time you read it you notice more things... like how the order of season words changes from stanza like a rotating calendar. And of course it deals with group mentality and conformity vs. isolated people who dream, and young vs. old, and how it all balances.

His other poem there, "what if a much of a which of a wind" is also beautiful, though. It's a little more harsh and cruel, but the words are sweeping, and they inspired this icon and the title for my Bluetara soft-smut fic.