The Visual Poem

We watched a visual poem in Humanities about two people, Jason Van Genderen and Shane Emmett who live in Sydney, Australia, and New York City, New York. They went around taking pictures of the city around them but they only used words to describe how both of the cities are connected. We all watched the simple street words transformed into powerful words.

In the beginning we learned about how both New York City and Sydney are completely different cities, they are separated by an ocean. They are on different sides of the world and are even different time zones. They are each different. But are they really? They have people who live and have families. They each have poverty in their cities, homeless people, they have children, adults, grandparents and animals who live in one city. So why is it just sea that divides us? In the poem that we had, it talked about how we aren't just two little separate islands with our own stories and disconnected from one another. Rather we are one massive "continent" that Donne refers to. Both Donne and Van Genderen have suggested that mankind is interconnected and have used continent as a metaphor to show that we are all united. Although we each have our own stories and lives, we can share this one another. 'No man is an island entire of itself: every man is a continent, a part of a main.' Van.... said that we all have stories and that wherever we go, there will be someone with a unique back round, personality, and family. So while we are interconnected, we cannot forget the people who don't have as much as we have. Even though they may be invisible and as we walk by them we need to accept that they are humans just like

This poem is like an opposite of the story "The Blokes" , a short story by Alan , this was their problem. They could not accept the fact that they aren't the great continent while everyone else is just a little island out in the ocean. They.... don't realize that we are millions of people, hundreds of races, many different faces, one human species. I think that they think that they are the best out of everyone and that's what gets to them to do the mean things they do. The pride. They pull strings and that's what makes them think that they are the best and that they are super and that they are the greatest.

I chose this photo because if you take a first glance at it, it shows just a man's face, but if you take a closer look than you see more people. The face represents the 'Continent' "No man is an entire island of itself; every man is a piece of the main" and the people there represent the people, that's us, who make up the island.

My blog post shows that this video is encouraging us to relate to others no matter who they are and why they are that way and everything like this.