Confinement
For my creative piece, I extracted five words from each of the five texts in my anthology. I then arranged them into a poem. The words that I chose all related to my anthology’s theme, confinement.
List of Words
From Nightwood, Djuna Barnes: picture (41), account (54), forever (41), pregnant (49), hesitation (41), image (41), mind (41)
From “To The Reader”, Charles Baudelaire: Boredom, buckram, Devil, torment, spirits, banal, delusion
From “445”, Emily Dickinson: Closet, pound, girl, still, lodged, brain, shut
From “890”, Emily Dickinson: Coffin, restricted, diminish, circumference, without, contain, breadth
From “Reading as Poaching”, Michel de Certeau: Pastures (165), garden (165), system (166), reduction (165), collected (165), caught (165), nets (165)
CONFINEMENT
Picture Boredom’s closet: coffin pastures.
Accounting gardens, buckram, pounds, restrictions.
Devil girl’s system, forever diminished.
Circumference, still pregnancy, reducing torment.
Brain caught containing banal images.
Collected spirits lodged without hesitation.
Delusion shuts mind net’s breadth.
Sabrina Rodriguez
I really enjoyed your idea of connection between “Voyage and Displacement” and “Confinement”. The most interesting part I think is that “Collected spirits lodged without hesitation.” I feel like this sentence means that; although the body(or physical thing) is being confined, it doesn’t matter because the spirit will be immediately released from its confinement. Therefore, you don’t need to hesitate and don’t need to much worry about “confinement” whatever it is because you will be free with your “collected mind”.
This is a really cool idea! I think that, on a whole, there’s a definite connection to the idea of confinement, even if the connection is a little loose. I think that the ideas of coffins and pastures contradict each other, yet are connected as one can be “confined” on the pasture, and obviously in the coffin. There is also the idea of a “mental confinement,” with “Brain caught containing banal images. Collected spirits lodged without hesitation. Delusion shuts mind net’s breadth.” This is a really cool idea that ultimately shows a connection, even though the ideas are from completely different sources.