Pablo Picasso Painting “Guernica”
Pablo Picasso had a lot of different periods in his life, like the rose period, the dark period, and cubism. These different parts of his life differentiated with the emotion of part of his life that he was in at that point. This painting called “Guernica” was in the cubism part of his life. The cubism was mostly painted during the war. In this painting it really shows it, because there is a crippled hand, and there are people who are killing other people in the picture. There is also no colour in the picture because the war was no place where there was happiness or glad emotions. When he painted this picture he organized it so there were lines separating the correct proportions of the people. While Pablo Picasso was painting this picture I think that he was thinking about how much the people that were living in the village were getting hurt and losing things, like their children, and their family. Picasso also liked to travel; he went to different places to paint with different styles.
I chose to work with this painting because I thought that there was a connection with the current unit of U.O.I. I have also studied this piece last year in grade five; we painted the picture, and wrote about it. I think that Picasso wanted to paint this picture because he wanted to express how he felt about the war and how it was affecting the people. This painting basically expressed how he imagined the war was coming along, and he wanted the war to stop because everyone was depressed because of it.
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Robert Frost “The Road Not Taken”
This poem gives a very strong message once you understand the poem. The message that is given in this poem is partly to try new things. How this is expressed id because when the poem says “I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference”, it means that that person has tried something new. That person has tried something that was not taken as often as the other, and that had made the difference because there was something unique about that person or that trail that decided to have an experience that they would have never had if they had done something different. They took a risk that no one else had the guts to take. They made a difference in their life that not many others made. They decided to be different and unique. They took the road less traveled by, and that made all the difference. Robert Frost originally created this poem for his friend Edward Thomas who always walked in the woods near London. Also frost would say that in one trail, they came across many other separations on the path, and had to choose one.
I chose to this piece because I thought that it had a strong connection with our U.O.I unit, in the personal journey section. I chose to do this poem because it is one of my favorite poems and I thought that it would go well with our U.O.I unit. The emotions that I got while I was reading this poem were very calm and anxious. Calm because the poem isn’t very angry and ecstatic, it is very peaceful. Anxious because I felt anxious to try both trails and, also to see what was at the end of the trail, and what was different from the other trail. I really like the name of this poem because I think that it goes very well with the poem itself, because the poem explains how one person had to choose one road to take and sorry they could not travel both, and the title explains how when he took the road less traveled by, there was a road not taken.
