Icon meme

[icepixie]

From rivrea

1. Reply to this post, and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.


This is a stock photo overlaid with a line from Eavan Boland's "The Pomegranate". I love her work, and that line/poem is one of my favorites. I ran across the picture on a stock photography site one night when I happened to be thinking of the poem, and so the two were wed. If I do decide to go the contemporary female Irish poets route for my thesis, I'll probably be using it a lot. (However, it looks more and more likely that I'll be doing "Mapping Ireland Through Literature," featuring Seamus Heaney, Yeats (to an extent), Sweeney Astray, At Swim-Two-Birds, and Ulysses. I learned a fancy new word for "mapping in poetry" in my Renaissance class last week: "chorography." I can totally put it to use now!)


Um. There's a long story about me and my DRD slash behind this one. It kind of exploded at the last ScaperCon in 2003, because my dirty-minded compatriots from the FS-Shippers list were willing to go along with my madness, and I made the icon right after, I believe. I just think Little Blue and 1812 would make a good couple, all right? ;)


Mahandra is freakin' awesome. You can't deny it. This is perhaps one of the funniest moments from Wonderfalls, and it comes in the middle of the episode tied for funniest of that series, "Pink Flamingos." If I weren't lazy, I'd fix the poor contrast and coloring on the screencap this is made from and do it again, but I think the point gets across anyway.


This is a cropped version of Frederic, Lord Leighton's "The Painter's Honeymoon." I just think it's a pretty picture, basically. Most of Leighton's stuff is pretty (as is that of his contemporary, Edmund Blair Leighton :D)). The figures' colorings, and that the man is an artist, remind me a little bit of Jules and Rebecca from The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne, which doesn't hurt. (Alas, the PTB did not agree with my shipping preferences there...)


I love the Victorians! One can never have too many Victoriana-related icons. This is from a little segment on the DVD for Ratatoille called "Your Friend the Rat." Isn't it cute?

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I have finished Frankenstein, and the introduction thereto. Now I'm going to finish the appendices, write a response, and then take what remains of the night off and read some fanfic or something.

Comments

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

I haven't done this in a while. Me, me! :D

[icepixie]

:D

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

[calliopes_pen]

Me, please?

[icepixie]

[rivrea.livejournal.com]

I must admit that I had never heard of Eavan Boland before, but I love the poem you linked to, with its slightly unusual perspective that doesn't focus on the nature myth, but on the mother-daughter relationship, on their bond as well as on the rift between innocence and experience.

"Chorography" is a marvellous word, although I will probably have fewer opportunities to use it than you. It's a bit tricky to work into everyday dialogue, I assume.

Couldn't you combine your two interests, though, and write on chorography in Irish female poets? It might be more striking (and thus might gain more academic brownie points) than picking so many big names from the Irish Lit canon (although I think your project does sound fascinating).

Also, I'm giggling like mad at the DRD porn.

[icepixie]

I must admit that I had never heard of Eavan Boland before, but I love the poem you linked to, with its slightly unusual perspective that doesn't focus on the nature myth, but on the mother-daughter relationship, on their bond as well as on the rift between innocence and experience.

She is amazing. This site has a few of her poems (although some seem to be missing the corret formatting). My favorite is "That the Science of Cartography Is Limited," although "Quarantine" gives it a run for its money. She's written, both in her poems and in essays and such, that she's seeking to drag Ireland back from the mystical, Celtic Twilightish, Shan Van Vochtish pall that the likes of Yeats put on it and write about issues important to her as a woman. Lots of her poems focus on domestic subjects, such as her family, her marriage, or her home in suburban Dublin.

"Chorography" is a marvellous word, although I will probably have fewer opportunities to use it than you. It's a bit tricky to work into everyday dialogue, I assume.

Somewhat. Although I'm sure you could try.

Couldn't you combine your two interests, though, and write on chorography in Irish female poets? It might be more striking (and thus might gain more academic brownie points) than picking so many big names from the Irish Lit canon (although I think your project does sound fascinating).

I may very well drag Boland into it (see the first poem mentioned above). I'm not actually as familiar with the current crop of female poets as I'd like to be (the other project will require a lot more primary text reading for the first time than the landscape one), so I'm not sure if they do a lot of this mapping or not. It would be something to look into, though.

Also, I'm giggling like mad at the DRD porn.

:D

[rivrea.livejournal.com]

Thank you ever so much for the Eavann Boland links. While I do quite like Yeats's Celtic Twilight phase, I can easily see why she would choose to write against it; her perspective on the Irish famine in the two poems you recommended takes my breath because it is both unsentimental and deeply mournful.

[icepixie]

You're welcome!

Yeats is my buddy. We've been through fifteen years together, at least, and I adore his Celtic Twilight work, but I do see how the Cathleen Ni Houlihan thing is objectifying of women, etc. etc., and I like that Boland and others reject that and make Ireland their own subject.

If you're interested in checking out more of her work, I recommend In a Time of Violence. It's the only one I have (besides her kinda-sorta autobiography, Object Lessons), but it's still one I keep going back to every once in a while.

[rivrea.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the recommendation! I'll be on the look for that (no idea whether my uni library card is still valid now that I'm not paying fees any longer...).