Week 4- Poem on 'Boy with a club foot'

[nessaa_a]

In class this week we had to write a poem about an image that inspired our emotions..

This is my attempt of a poem based on a painting called 'Boy with a Clubfoot' by Jusepe de Ribera

His clothes are tattered, all dirty and brown

He has a club foot as he walks into town

As happy and content as he could be

With a sack in one hand and a crutch in the

Comments

[squarebluefish]

Oh I liked that! Seems a little bit forced but no duh, it WAS. I remember thinking "Oh god, I can't possibly write anything meaningful in a lecture hall on prescribed art... with a time limit!"

My favourite lines were the four in the middle -

"With a sack in one hand and a crutch in the other

And a smile on his face which he got from his mother

His father left before he could walk

His mother became crazy and refuses to talk"

I shall combine stanzas if I like! Lol... and out of those four, 2 and 4 are my favourite favourites (so obviously a literature student here *rolls eyes*). I don't know if it's some complex mental thing, liking the lines to do with the mother but I really appreciated the idea of inheriting physical features like they are objects.
And I'm a fan of The Addams Family so I suppose crazy relatives are my bag.

Not a particularly constructive comment but a comment nonetheless! I'm glad someone chose Boy with a Club Foot. The narrative of Home From Sea was too much temptation for the rest of us!