Your emotional response to the poem
‘On Seeing the Elgin Marbles’
My spirit is too weak—mortality
Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep,
And each imagined pinnacle and steep
Of godlike hardship tells me I must die
Like a sick eagle looking at the sky.
Yet ’tis a gentle luxury to weep
That I have not the cloudy winds to keep
Fresh for the opening of the morning’s eye.
Such dim-conceived glories of the brain
Bring round the heart an indescribable feud;
So do these wonders a most dizzy pain,
That mingles Grecian grandeur with the rude
Wasting of old time—with a billowy main—
A sun—a shadow of a magnitude.
John Keats
5. Critically analyse and interpret visual situations in order to represent them effectively.
In this piece perspective was used on the rose bush, with the roses to the left being larger than those disappearing into the top right corner, to create depth and make the elements seem to fit into three dimensional space.
7. Apply practice-based research to the development of original ideas
Previously created textures were used in all three pieces to inspire the outcomes. The final pictures have a lot more visual interest thanks to the random shapes found in the textures, which reflect the natural harmonies found in nature.
