I chose a very simple layout and simple font for my website because Emily Dickinson liked to write simple poems that you can relate to. I also chose a white colored layout because her favorite color was white; there was a time in her life when she only wore white. She threw away all clothes that contained any hint of color. She wrote poems that spoke to us personally, poems that we can understand. For example, her poem called "I'm nobody, who are you?", was rather simple, it did not have any complex rhyme, but it is very emotional because it's personally sincere. In this poem, you can tell that Emily enjoys being an outcast. She states that being somebody is dreary, and criticizes popularity and fame. To her, there is nothing special about being someone. She would rather be a nobody.
For the art/photography, I chose three pieces that were inspired by three of Emily Dickinson's poems. The first picture which consists of paper cranes was inspired by her poem, "Hope is the thing with feather". In this poem, she uses the image of a bird to describe the abstract idea of hope. The imagery of feathers conjures up hope in itself. Feathers represent hope because feathers enable you to fly and offer the image of flying away to a new hope, a new beginning. I chose a picture of paper cranes because of a book called Sadako and the thousand paper cranes. This is a story of a girl that has leukemia caused by the radiation from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There is no hope for her to live, but there is a legend that if you make 1000 paper cranes, your wish will come true. This gives her hope to go on, so Sadako tries to make 1000 paper cranes hoping that her wish for life will come true.
The second picture is inspired by another Dickinson poem, "The brain is wider than the sky". This poem compares the imagination and ability of the mind to comprehend everything that surrounds us. Our mind is a wonderful thing, more so than anything in the world. It's wider than the sky, deeper than the sea, and the weight of God. We can comprehend more than the sky can carry. Where it has limits, we don't. We can see deeper than what's beneath the sea. Where it has a bottom, our thought continues. And we carry the judgement of God, equal in weight as we share these ideals together. This is all due to our imagination and creativity our mind possesses. For this reason, I chose a picture of a girl staring at a vast sky that seems to stretch on forever. Some may look and think that the human mind is so little compared to the sky, but if they think deeply, they will realize that our mind holds unlimited knowledge whereas the sky is just a large empty space.
The final picture I chose is of a fly which is inspired by Emily Dickinson's poem, "I heard a Fly buzz when I died". Flies are usually used as a metaphor for death because they are usually associated with decay and decomposing. The poem talks of the passage to death as unsettling but not painful or frightful. We associate the fly with death and decay, something that feeds on flesh, but perhaps, does the fly represent a distraction to ease the passage into death?
The music I chose was simple, soft, romantic and relaxing. Emily Dickinson seemed like the type of person to listen to slow, sentimental ballads and soft, and simple piano compositions, particularly sonatas.
For the art/photography, I chose three pieces that were inspired by three of Emily Dickinson's poems. The first picture which consists of paper cranes was inspired by her poem, "Hope is the thing with feather". In this poem, she uses the image of a bird to describe the abstract idea of hope. The imagery of feathers conjures up hope in itself. Feathers represent hope because feathers enable you to fly and offer the image of flying away to a new hope, a new beginning. I chose a picture of paper cranes because of a book called Sadako and the thousand paper cranes. This is a story of a girl that has leukemia caused by the radiation from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There is no hope for her to live, but there is a legend that if you make 1000 paper cranes, your wish will come true. This gives her hope to go on, so Sadako tries to make 1000 paper cranes hoping that her wish for life will come true.
The second picture is inspired by another Dickinson poem, "The brain is wider than the sky". This poem compares the imagination and ability of the mind to comprehend everything that surrounds us. Our mind is a wonderful thing, more so than anything in the world. It's wider than the sky, deeper than the sea, and the weight of God. We can comprehend more than the sky can carry. Where it has limits, we don't. We can see deeper than what's beneath the sea. Where it has a bottom, our thought continues. And we carry the judgement of God, equal in weight as we share these ideals together. This is all due to our imagination and creativity our mind possesses. For this reason, I chose a picture of a girl staring at a vast sky that seems to stretch on forever. Some may look and think that the human mind is so little compared to the sky, but if they think deeply, they will realize that our mind holds unlimited knowledge whereas the sky is just a large empty space.
The final picture I chose is of a fly which is inspired by Emily Dickinson's poem, "I heard a Fly buzz when I died". Flies are usually used as a metaphor for death because they are usually associated with decay and decomposing. The poem talks of the passage to death as unsettling but not painful or frightful. We associate the fly with death and decay, something that feeds on flesh, but perhaps, does the fly represent a distraction to ease the passage into death?
The music I chose was simple, soft, romantic and relaxing. Emily Dickinson seemed like the type of person to listen to slow, sentimental ballads and soft, and simple piano compositions, particularly sonatas.