Reflective Post: The Poem Stealing the Scream (Essay Sample)

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Youn’s (2003) poem, “Stealing the Scream” is related to Munch’s painting, “The Scream” in various ways. My classmates’ tweets highlighting the relationship between the two elements are all great. However, only three of the tweets stand out as the most successful in illustrating the relationship between the poem and the painting. The three tweets include that of Miranda, Adrina, and mine. Miranda’s tweet, “Stealing Scream= shocking response of art piece being stolen from Oslo art gallery, perhaps the shocks lives within the art itself?” manages to show the relationship between the people’s shock in the poem and the scream in the painting.
Adrina’s tweet, “In "Stealing the Scream" the poem seems to shift the original meaning behind the painting” is great. It manages to pinpoint that the meaning portrayed, which is the somewhat agony feeling of an individual illustrated through a scream in the painting, is changed in the poem to an act of stealing that results in people’s shock (being equaled to the scream). Finally, this section of my tweet, “To scream the deplorable situation of security. The response of the guards is wanting in the event where the picture has been taken with less sophistication” shows the mockery relationship of the scream in the painting and the nature of security in the poem. It, in a way, shows that the scream in the painting is a shocking expression directed towards the guards due to their failed security.
As for the electronic version (Olivares, 2017) of de Campos’s SOS (“"SOS" by Augusto de Campos,” 2007), three tweets can as well be pinpointed as the best in commenting on the same. Katie Manry’s tweet, “the sci-fi-esque music emulates a message traveling thru space which may or may not ever be received by anyone which in my opinion enhances the message of the original poem/ artwork” stands out. It mentions that the messages, which are the texts, are traveling through space, which is depicted by the manner in which they are revolving complemented by the background music. The first line of Amina Kamara’s tweet, “he pictu...