Thursday, November 12, 2009

Any comments on an ekphrasis of "Water Lilies"?

Would love to read any comments people have; no need for false praise, as I have a thick skin regarding my admittedly amateur poetry. For more explanation on ekphrastic poetry, see this link to a lonely question:





http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?...





Viewing "Water Lilies"





Quick glances find canvas


spread with serenity,


a soothing glimpse of


undisturbed pond.


Look again:


closer looks show


points of color


bursting, a


pondscape teeming -


proletariat minutiae


quietly rebelling as the


whole struggles to quell


microcosmic uprisings.

Any comments on an ekphrasis of "Water Lilies"?
I like it, it reads very well. Is it a Marxist interpretation of Monet??? (proletariat minutiae? class struggle in the pond?). I am not very fond of that painting (those paintings, rather. Maybe seen too often and everywhere) but your poem offers new perspectives.


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