Notes on “The Scream by Edvard Munch” by Gonzalinho da Costa

 

Format is an essential attribute of the poem, “The Scream by Edvard Munch.” The poem is at this link:

https://poetryofgonzalinhodacosta.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-scream-by-edvard-munch.html

 

 

The Scream (1893) by Edvard Munch

 

The original version of the poem is formatted in Century Schoolbook 12 points.

The poem uses full justification in order to maintain a block shape. The block shape simplifies the perceptual features of the poem and achieves a special impact. Text crowding is also essential to the poem. The poem should be exactly 23 lines long.

To achieve the aforementioned attributes, the width of the poem should be adjusted and the last line should add as many “a’s” to the “a” string as may be required to ensure that the last word, “hell,” ends at the edge of the right margin.

 

 

This procedure is illustrated in the second and third versions of the poem, which are formatted in Times New Roman 12 points and Georgia 12 points, respectively.

In the second version of the poem, the width has been adjusted from 6 inches to 5.75 inches and seven “a’s” have been added to the “a” string in the last line. The last line has 73 “a’s.” The original version of the poem, which is formatted in Century Schoolbook 12 points, has 66 “a’s” in the last line.

 

The third version of the poem adjusts the width from 6 inches to 6.25 inches and adds four “a’s” to the “a” string in the last line. The last line has 70 “a’s.”

The Scream by Edvard Munch

 

Notes on “The Scream by Edvard Munch” by Gonzalinho da Costa:

https://poetryofgonzalinhodacosta.blogspot.com/2022/09/notes-on-scream-by-edvard-munch.html

Crucified Woman by Almüth Lutkenhaus-Lackey

  

CRUCIFIED WOMAN BY ALMÜTH LUTKENHAUS-LACKEY 

Who do you say that I am?

You are the woman without property or inheritance rights, without the right to vote or to freedom of movement, to employment, health, or education, who is discriminated against because you are considered intrinsically inferior to males—

The object of controlling and manipulative behavior by males at home, school, or work, wherever gender discrimination exists,

The object of their verbal bullying, threats, isolation, or blame, of physical, sexual, or emotional abuse,

The object of harassment by stalkers—vengeful, love obsessed, erotomanic, psychotic—

The wife, daughter, girl, or mother raped or forced into sexual slavery during wartime, the victim of a state strategy of aggression,

The victim of human trafficking, kidnapped, imprisoned, and then coerced into commercial pornography or prostitution,

The victim of forced marriage by kidnapping, of forced pregnancy, of state breeding programs,

The victim of the honor killings undertaken whenever a woman resists a prearranged marriage or wants to divorce her abusive husband,

The widow killed by ritual suicide or murder,

The child compelled to marry against her will,

The child victim of rape, traumatized for life,

The young woman assaulted by female genital mutilation,

The female infant put to death because of religious, cultural, social, and economic discrimination, killed by drowning, suffocation, starvation, exposure, neglect, physical abuse, poisoning, whatever works,

The fetus aborted because of the obnoxious cultural preference for male children,

The poor and elderly woman convicted of witchcraft, drowned, hanged, or burned at the stake,

The woman demeaned by body shaming, fat shaming, all forms of sexist ridicule— 

 

You are the Christ.

Crucified Woman (1976) by Almüth Lutkenhaus-Lackey