A Poem in One Picture

I decided to visually explicate "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth mostly because I enjoy reading poems that allude to our natural world. In his poem, Wordsworth mostly addresses things that are found in our nature such as clouds, trees, grass, flowers, etc., so I made sure to incorporate those elements in my drawing.

Poems are Polygamous

A poem means something different to everyone. Every individual will interpret a poem differently and it will affect them in a unique way. Because of this, a poem isn't always married to someone, but everyone. A poem will have a unique relationship with every person that reads it. Poems are polygamous.

I think poems are always married to their author. The poet will have the closest and most intimate relationship with the poem of anyone because they truly understand what the poem is trying to convey. They understand it on an entirely separate level than the average reader because a part of them went into that poem. Because of this, even if someone's poem never sees the light of day, it is still married to its author. Even if a poem isn't "married" to anyone else because no one but the author has ever seen it, it will always be married to the poet.

When two people marry, their names become synonymous. It works the same way with poems and poets, as you rarely will think of someone like Robert Frost without immediately thinking of "The Road Not Taken." The bond between a poet and their poetry is so close that divorce between the two is unthinkable. The poem is a piece of the author, and you can't divorce yourself. Poems most definitely are married to people, and they are always married to someone, but they can also be married to many people. Each person that is strongly affected by a poem, memorizes a poem, or simply reads a poem and thinks about it later that day is now married to that poem because it has ingrained itself in their mind and will always be with them, wherever they go.