{"id":351,"date":"2017-10-12T08:23:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T14:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dh17.dralexlyman.net\/?p=34"},"modified":"2017-10-12T08:23:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T14:23:46","slug":"snapshots-of-emotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/student-posts\/snapshots-of-emotion\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapshots of Emotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For me, what makes art <em>art<\/em> is its ability to evoke strong feelings in the audience.\u00a0Art can snap us back to a memory; fill us with the feelings of a moment long past.<\/p>\n<p>One piece of art that is extremely powerful in my mind is the Star Trek: Voyager theme. When I hear it, I am flooded with feelings of nostalgia for the late &#8217;90s. I know this is kind of strange. I was a small child in the late &#8217;90s and I didn&#8217;t watch Voyager until I was 22 years old. For me, though, it embodies that era&#8217;s zeitgeist. I have constructed an idea of what that time means to me: when Superboy wore an earring, when priests spoke out against Magic: the Gathering, when the Game Boy was commonplace. I have constructed a sense of what that time means to me, and this song brings it to my mind.<\/p>\n<p>Take a listen:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KtVXAugaSm0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Star Trek: Voyager theme by Jerry Goldsmith<\/p>\n<p>What I love about Duffy&#8217;s poetry is that it does the same thing for me. Some of her poems just slam a memory into my head, so vivid I cannot help but relate to the text. I loved Borrowed Memory for this reason. I can completely relate to the scene of remembering happy moments, so long gone that I can hardly remember more than the happy feeling. I, too have constructed narratives to explain these memories. My invented stories were probably untrue, but they&#8217;re my memories now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These fictions are as much a part of them as fact, for if you said,\u00a0<em>Are you quite sure of this?<\/em> they would insist&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This has happened to me.<\/p>\n<p>I completely relate.<\/p>\n<p>I relate to a bunch of Duffy&#8217;s poems, or parts of many of them.<\/p>\n<p>They are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Head of English<\/li>\n<li>You Jane<\/li>\n<li>Ash Wednesday, 1984<\/li>\n<li>A Provincial Party, 1956<\/li>\n<li>Poker in the Falklands with Henry and Jim<\/li>\n<li>Saying Something<\/li>\n<li>Where We Came In<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For me, what makes art art is its ability to evoke strong feelings in the audience.&nbsp;Art can snap us back to a memory; fill us with the feelings of a moment long past. One piece of art that is extremely powerful in my mind is the Star Trek: Voyager theme. 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