Making An Erasure Poem

For this radical revision, I decide I wanted to do something unique, and from what I have seen, mine is the only one of its kind in the class. At first, I had considered creating a series of drawings that depicted how uncertainties affected an individual, but after having an internal debate with myself. I decided to create one drawing with an erasure poem that narrated what was going through a person's head, but at the same time, the narrator would be the individual going through this situation from an outside view. I also had considered just making an erasure poem by itself, but I went against it because I thought that was too simple and I would also not get a good grade due to the lack of effort. Hence, after deciding what I was going to do I created a rough draft to take to the peer review session so I could get a second opinion, and after hearing what my classmates had to say they reassured me that I was on the right path. Furthermore, I selected this approach over the others because I wanted to do something unique as I mentioned before, but at the same time, I had to do …show more content…
But I could only hope that it didn’t just make sense in my head but in yours too. Hence, in figuring out what to draw I decide to use the figure of a man for the drawing, because in one of the journals that I read for my essay it talked about how men were more prone to suicide due to lack of emotional release. Furthermore, I also chose to keep the drawing in black and white because when you are in depression all you see is darkness. In addition, I choose to depict cracking in a certain way because it represented how the individual is thinking they are holding it together, but in the end, they are just falling apart without noticing it. Which is what I am afraid of, that I will pent up my emotions so long that there is no longer way for me to avoid my own