This set of pieces doesn't really use "readymades" in the sense that I take an iconic image and reuse it for my purposes. I do take images from other people and groups and re-purpose them though, but my main focus is taking lines from famous poets and re-purposing them in my own poems. I think I did a good job of that, but I am unsatisfied with the constraint to doing to with the first and last poems. The first poem I at once liked using lines from other poems because they evoked certain connotations, such as Dulce et Decorum Est, which is a famous war poem where just saying the phrase evokes a dichotomy between proudly dying for glory and country and at the same time the idea of the utter waste of life the idea brings.
However, the lines about Time were especially hard to incorporate, and all of the lines have a specific meter and rhythm to them that had to be worked in a way that didn't result in a discordant verse. And I am still unsatisfied with how the verses fit together. Each verse individually make sense in terms of rhythm and rhyme, but as a whole the effect is quite jarring. While it might seem deliberate, and I might actually try a poem with that kind of effect on purpose, I did not intend for that kind of cringing discordance, though it does fit in with the subject of the poem
I also have a very large problem with Heavenly Bodies, simply for the fact that while it celebrates the cycles of life using the Moon, Stars, and Sun, it is too much like a superficial flowery poem with little meaning. However, I endeavored to incorporate every quote I found that I liked into that poem, and I feel very restricted, despite that fact that truly I am only restricting myself. There is so much potential in the poem that I decided to ignore for the sake of recycling the words of other poets that leaves me feeling unsatisfied.
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