OK so here is my attempted at an anagram. I took the song Islander by Nightwish and rearranged it line by line. Sometimes I had to combine lines to get enough letters but for the most part it is line by line. Here is the original song:
An old man by a seashore
At the end of day
Gazes the horizon
With seawinds in his face
Tempest-tossed island
Seasons all the same
Anchorage unpainted
And a ship without a name
Sea without a shore for the banished one unheard
He lightens the beacon, light at the end of world
Showing the way lighting hope in their hearts
The ones on their travels homeward from afar
This is for long-forgotten
Light at the end of the world
Horizon crying
The tears he left behind long ago
The albatross is flying
Making him daydream
The time before he became
One of the world`s unseen
Princess in the tower
Children in the fields
Life gave him it all:
An island of the universe
Now his love`s a memory
A ghost in the fog
He sets the sails one last time
Saying farewell to the world
Anchor to the water
Seabed far below
Grass still in his feet
And a smile beneath his brow
This is for long-forgotten
Light at the end of the world
Horizon crying
The tears he left behind long ago
And here is my revised version of it
Let
A reasonably handsome man
Date the day of life
Soothe hearing sounds
Insides await which dies
A senses lesson template
That radiant open change
Damnation shapes with uncaring love
Fearless heart without being bound
Oh had she needed that white hood
Then another flash of light ashore
Awe-inspiring Northwest high
Safe mother earth her emotional wreath
Sing of foolish forgotten
Dazzling horror which they left behind
Realize the legend, the ghost tyrant
Antagonists still song by him
From image dark as day
I the theme became before worthwhile
Unforeseen response contended
In lilies did the living reach
Themes fall have sound if entire fail
Shame moves low irony
Sheathing hottest sessions
Lie to the gleam of eagerly stolen wrath
A wild crane flies oe’r water
Bow the head to Father
Brainwashing lost behind
Smiles establishing torn efforts
Forgetting hallowed ground
Heathenish icy lost gazing
The brotherhood of one
I was able to use all of the letters except for the word 'let' which I couldn't really find a place for so I made it the title. It took me exactly 4hrs and 15min to write all of this, and it included about a solid hour of frustration. I figured out that if I just chose the words I wanted then I could just subtract the letters from the lines and that made it go a lot faster. I can honestly say that while this was 'fun' I would never want to do it again.
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Wow! It's a big improvement on the original!
ReplyDeleteIt is a big change for sure. I wouldn't really call it an improvement though. ^_^
ReplyDeleteI like your reconstruction. I don't really understand when you say "if I just chose the words I wanted then I could just subtract the letters from the lines and that made it go a lot faster"... How did you know if the words would use all the letters? Do you think that the original words/letters subconsciously influenced which words you chose? I'm writing something to using the recombination procedure and mine doesn't make much sense so far...but it's kinda funny. Just trying to see how others were doing it. :)
ReplyDeleteWhat I meant by choosing the words I wanted is that I would just write a line like "Soothe hearing sounds" (3)then I would take the third line from the original and just take out the letters that I used, if there weren't enough letters then I would go to the fourth line of the original. I hope this clarifies it a little better for you. If not just let me know and I can try again.
ReplyDeleteIn a previous writing class there was this ongoing conversation about hotel art, which some people can be guilty of making with their poetry. I sort of feel that the original poem was hotel art, and I love how you mixed it up. However I kind of wish you had strayed even farther from the original poem, as there does still remain some similarities. It's not really a suggestion, just my morbid curiosity.
ReplyDeleteCatherine Elizabeth,
ReplyDeleteYou did a really great job with this. I especially like how the last lines of each stanza turned out. I don't know why, exactly - they just seem to be good "enders" and there is an, I don't know, finality about them. I obviously can't explain it, but for example I really like "Safe mother earth her emotional wreath." Anyway, great job!