Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Vanishing Point Comments

Rating: 4.9

in perspective, parallel lines appear
to converge, distant objects appear to
be smaller, closer objects are more distinct.
in linear perspective, things disappear.
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Jesse Weiner
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Sue Ann Simar 28 January 2007

perceptive about perspective

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Souren Mondal 08 February 2016

Yes, and that is the beauty of this one...

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Carol Shaw 22 February 2005

Jesse, Enjoyed this poem very much. Indeed we cannot trust our eyes they are great deceivers. Well done. Carol

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Poetry Hound 22 February 2005

I thought surely you were going to use the converging and disappearing thing as a terrific metaphor, and you sort of do at the end. Not bad, Jesse. I think you spent a little too much time on restating the literal aspects of perspective and almost no time on what could be the more interesting metaphoric aspects. But I kinda like the poem.

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