Here are some of my favorite poetry versus and art pieces:
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door-
Only this, and nothing more."-Edgar Allen Poe (first verse of The Raven)
Vincent Van Gogh
"Starry Night" (1889)
"I'm a riddle in nine syllables,
An elephant, a ponderous house,
A melon strolling on two tendrils.
O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers!
This loaf's big with its yeast rising.
Money's new-minted in this fat purse.
I'm a means, a stage, a cow in calf.
I've eaten a bag of green apples,
Boarded the train there's no getting off."
- Sylvia Plath (Metaphors)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"Luncheon by the Boating Party" (1881)
Jean-Honore Fragonard
"The Swing" (1766)
Georges Seurat
"Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grande Jatte, 1884-85"
