Comments | lady_akatari: because poetry is shiny

lady_akatari

because poetry is shiny

Jul 24, 2008 20:56

Icons of this will come, along with icons of other poems by e. e. cummings. Once I stop being lazy. The hardest thing about iconing e. e. cummings is finding the right images to go with the words. Actually, I think it might be best as text-only, but I'm reluctant to try.

"i carry your heart with me(i carry it in"
e. e. cummings

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poetry, pretend this is an iconing lj

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sauntau July 25 2008, 03:43:41 UTC

Ooooo, this is gorgeous.

(If I were making an icon, I think I'd make it a signature instead, because the whole poem is so beautiful. And I'd take one image (for me, probably from anime, but it could be a nature picture, too) and put that on one side and have it fade to black and have the poem on the other side.)

Man, it's such a heart-wrenchingly lovely poem--mind if I make a sig and show you what I meant?

lady_akatari July 25 2008, 03:51:34 UTC

Good heavens, you don't need my permission. And I'd love to see it. Go for it! ^__^

sauntau July 25 2008, 04:43:12 UTC

And here it is! The fading-to-black thing didn't exactly work out.

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sauntau July 25 2008, 04:49:55 UTC

(I posted this before I saw your reply--why on earth is there no "edit" button on LJ?

See, I'd never go trawling through e. e. cummings poems to find a good one for icon-making myself (note to self: read more poetry), so I didn't want to steal your idea. The icon community can get a little overprotective. Sporkers, not so much. But I play it safe. ;)

I think e. e. cummings would have loved to have access to Dafont. *evil smile*

The more I look at it, the less intimidating it looks, but the focus is obviously on the poem, not on the graphic, and that's a problem when you're making icons or signatures. (That's a startlingly appropriate poem for the couple in the sig, too. Creepy.)

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frostflowers July 28 2008, 09:07:09 UTC

Ooooh. The third stanza ("here is the deepest secret [...]" is gorgeous. The first bit is a bit too jumbled for me - though there's some good lines in there - but the third stanza is just wonderful.

I'm currently in love with somewhere i have never travelled - mostly because of the last line; "no one, not even the rain, has such small hands"