Not My Best Side

Not My Best Side

  • Submitted By: evert
  • Date Submitted: 02/25/2009 7:17 AM
  • Category: English
  • Words: 384
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Give the Horse a Voice Part one: The IV stanza to be added to Fanthorpe’s poem “Not my Best Side” In fact I’m kind of satisfied with This angle. It really shows my bone structure Accurately, and I certainly like how the light reflexes My locks of hair, almost like silver Not like her, trying to look innocent And clean standing in the back. It would In my opinion be suitable if She was out of the painting. I don’t I know what she is thinking. And I Understand. If it wasn’t for my celibacy I had jumped right on him too. It was a Fanatical idea, I mean a stallion Has his needs you know and now I’m surely Absolutely fascinated by this being It’s clear to me that’s why this heap of Machinery on my bag wants to kill him Even though he is in his last agonies I feel ashamed being seen as with him Part two: Written account of my own stanza The original poem of Fabthorpe’s is written in a spoken language. Every stanza represents one of the characters’ state of mind in Paolo Uccello’s painting ‘St George and the dragon’ and in a continuation of that I have tried to give the horse a reliable voice. I have chosen to make the horse very metro sexual and self-assured, because I think it supports the horse’s appearance very well. I have also chosen to make the horse homosexual which I think is very concordant with the rest of the poem, because a thing I’ve noticed is repeated is how the characters shock you a little bit. Their feelings about the situation are very unusual for that typical kind of ‘fair maiden in distress’ scene. I’ve tried to match my stanza with the other three by keeping the spoken language – the horse has an inner dialog, so a high level of formality wouldn’t be suitable. I’ve also kept the account of verslinies in the stanza the same, and made it chopped-up prose as well. Even though it’s a dialog, the characters turn directly to the reader. I’ve been aware of my choice of words, so it creates a rhyme and ties the verslinies...

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