Sailing in our Friend-Ship

Hey there! This week's topic is FRIENDSHIP Such a great feeling huh? There are many many couple friendships in the world of animation, Im not taking much time to explain what friendship is, since it's a different experience for everyone but again Im making a compilation of GREAT moments in Animated Films. This feeling, most of the time, comes accompanied with extremely colorful frames and movements, smiles and a bunch of tears…but HEY this is what friendship means! good times, bad times…but there's always friendship to get along.
Around the history of animation, from Disney to Japanese Anime, there have always existed friendship. It is, actually very helpful for young people. It is said, that kids must always grow friendship during their 'School age' for it can be very helpful for his/her academical performance, it helps with their moral values etc. So, there IS an influence based on values from animated films and those scenes are very enjoyable to watch. This friendship scenes comes also with some corny even funny script, most of them complemented with some music parts and dancing.
I cannot omit the fact of the importance of the music during the animation process, it changes the complete context of the story, even the lyrics, that you may not be paying attention to them, but they make a great influence.
The camera movements make a great work on this scenes, from down to up, or rolling in the air. As we are about to watch.
So I'll leave you some Friendship scenes and I'll make you below a short example of these things I just told you.





We'll start from Snow White (1937): There's our little fella sitting alone in the forest while the animals watch her with curiosity. She realizes they're watching her and reacts surprised, but happy because they're there for her to ease her pain. They start singing and laughing by the joy of having friends.
Something similar happens in The Jungle Book (1967): Mowgli is kind of down sitting in a rock while the vultures come to cheer him up singing some friendship song, the lyrics are these:


Who comes around
To pluck you up
When you are down
And when you're outside, looking in
Who's there to open the door?
That's what friends are for!


Now we proceed with The Fox and the Hound (1981): We watch that two different kinds of animals can be friends too, theres a lot of playing, young and fun rolling in the grass. I found this very cute, when I was like 5 years…I loved to play with my brother like this.

Now there's The Lion King (1994): Simba is rescued by a sort of Wildpig (Pumba) and a Meerkat (Timón) Who cheer him up and start singing Hakuna Matata
''It means no worries, for the rest of our day..it's a problem free..philosophy''
The background is very colorful, the camera goes by frame high speed and the music could cheer anyone up.

The next movie is Toy Story (1995): Here comes Andy playing with Woody his Cowboy toy, and the well known song in the background: You've got a friend in me. High speed camera, there's an interesting angle when he throws Woody in the air, it is representing the joy that means Friendship. Jumping, dancing. That's how it is.

I hope you enjoyed!!

Did you find this interesting? Check out this cool websites and sources!!!!

FILMSITES a whole emporium of animated films!
DREAMWORKS official site
DISNEY ANIMATION website, very interesting!


Although I made the video, I claim that I do not own any Disney animation.

·Draw a Friend, Jump Faces Fence·

Personal affection, pure and disinterested, shared with another person which is born and strengthened by the deal.
                                                                   Definition by RAE's Dictionary .




Hello! Cris here again and with lots more drawings. This week, we're talking about frienship, so let's begin!

(*hawking*)


Well, I've posted that definition of friendship above just to show how difficult it's to explain what friendship means. Do you feel happy with that descrition of the feeling? I think it's a quite correct one, but incomplete.
Apart from this one, there're other over 6,000 millions definitions. As much as people you knew. As much as people you will never know. As much as people in the world.
Nora said in her last post, friendship is NOT a single and simple feeling, it includes amounts of others within. I totally agree with this and so I'm going to try to show through drawings now.

Here we have the first one.

Do you see that people? All those photos were taken while we were gathering, or in the pool, going out at nigth, or simply, meeting to see each other and talk. And this afternoon probably weren't something extraordinary, we did not climb a mountain, or went to the beach, but they were special anyway. Why? You can see it yourself. They're laughing, smiling, making ugly faces, or doing silly thing.
They're just having fun together.

But apart from what can be seen, this drawing has a deeper meaning. It was done for my twin sister who was leaving to Madrid. Obviously, something special had to be done before she left, so on thursday, I talked to all these people and I told them to make something next Saturday. They all already had a plan.
The most important thing of this drawing is that shows a kind of friendship that never leave you out nor down and that will always steal you a smile at once.
They all struggled their mind and opened their schedules to be able to meet. To have their last meal with my sister. To make her feel she got us here no matter what.
Friends are there for you , for whatever think you want, and even if they don't have a confort word, they have a strong embrace ready.


Following, I found this drawing, made like 5 years ago to decorate a notebook.

You can see a girl conforting an other. Some times in life, you find some one who seems to be similar enough to understand, but also different enough to never get bored of . That's the kind of friendship I'm thinking about watching this.
None is telling a thing, but they are understanding what the other need. That, wordless friendship is something every one should have at least once.


As third drawing, I've decided to show one of Nora.(Obviously,she's not my classmate who posted last Friday)

The kind of friendship I see here, even if a little different, is not worse at all. To explain it somehow,let's say it's like become the friend of your childhood's superhero after discovering is just as human as you, but still great. 
When I first saw the original photo, I suddely knew I had to draw it. I truly wanted to catch the essence, and, I have to confess, I needed 3 goes before doing this one.
She was in the photo exactly the way I see her. Always with a smile for me even when she has to tell you that I was mistaken.
It is kind of a challenge for me to explain this, because it's not only what she is, it's what she makes out of me. You ALWAYS feel great after talking a while with a person like her in a friendship like this.
Just imagine your superhero believes you can someday be a superhero too and that it gives you strengh to try, to be better. That's what this kind of friendship is about; Getting better all the time. You can be afraid, you can have fears, fail, success, but always alongside the other.

And last, but not least. This Drawing, specially done for this week's post and feeling.

This is like our third week here in college? We all knew each other lfor less than a month now and here we are, working all together. Talking about our blogs, taking decisions together, trying to learn more together. So this is why, these awesome people is on my post today, for being part of that kind of friendship that helps you dealing day to day, and keep learning.

So I'm sorry if there's no famous people, or films appearing this week on my post, but drawing for me is not just taking a pen and trying to make my work as similar as I can to the original photograph. Drawing is not copying. So while talking about friendship you cannot draw a guy you dont really know, maybe a picture of him with a friend? But it would still feel something coming from outside.
I draw faces, I work them out, I create...I recreate friendship from those magic moments I've shared with them and I show who they are, what they mean to me through the expressions they got in the original photograph, on their gestures, on my memory.



Well, that's enough fot this week isn't it?Let's see what awaits us next monday starting our second university month.




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F4E

F4E, Friends For Ever.

If you open any girl´s agenda you will probably find the same sentence.
This magical proposition gives us confidence in something we are always looking for: REAL FRIENDSHIP.

"What characteristics does reality have, for we can belive it is real? It is consistent - it doesn´t make big changes every time- and it has to be in a context -real things have a history. The context helps us to understand the meaning of things. It makes them significative."1

What a friendship needs to be real are precisely these characteristics: consistence and a history behind. You´ve got to know that that friend is always going to be there for whatever you need and that friend needs to know at the same time you´ll be there for him/her. The other thing is that making friends takes it´s time and the time you spend knowing more and more the people you met, conforms a history made of good and bad decisions, good times and bad times, things that didn´t happen but had to, or vice versa...

And we can ask ourselves: what´s the friendship? I found a poem about it and I thought it would be perfect to answer part of this big question:

It is a door that opens,

an outstretched hand,

a smile that encourages you,

a look that  understands you,

a tear that shares your pain,

a word that encourages you,

and a critique that improves you.

Applause that stimulates you,
a meeting that rejoices you,
a favor without reward,
a giving without demanding,
and wait ... without fatigue. 2

these verses explain the function that most of us think a friend should have in our lifes. But we can´t forget that friendship is reciprocal; this that you want for you, that person wants it too from you. And friends are expected to be respected and loved as what they are and not only for what they do for us.


Well, in any moment of that history of friendship-most of the times, at school- that very friend of yours takes your agenda and writes down the sentence in question. And it remains there forever -that means until the course ends up, maybe a summer else. That´s, to say it anyway, the symbol of our friendship: F4E.

But then, there are those cute and most of the time emotive dedications we write down when we are about to finish the course and we are probably not seeing each other for all the vacation. It was these kind of little poems that I wanted to mention today. They are specially about friends and frendship. And, many times, they express them better than a profesional poem would.

  Just an example:

If I were driver,
I would bring you in my car.
but as I am not at all,
I carry you in my heart.3


That´s a poem and, well, that´s friendship.

Pilar


 1. Don Eduardo Terrasa, anthropology proffesor at UNAV.
 2.http://www.tubreveespacio.com/poemas-01ab05/que%20es%20la%20amistad.htm
 3. That is a poem of my invention,; I composed it by modifying a typical spanish one. 

I'll be there for you... 'cuz you're there for me too

“Jas, I need to speak to you urgently... My life is a fiasco and a sham!”

                                                            Angus, thongs and perfect snogging (2008)

Let me introduce you the topic for this week’s posts. It will be...

                                                     FRIENDSHIP

First of all, I must say that friendship encompasses many other topics, like confidence, security, love and sincerity. A real friendship still remains over everyone and everything
How is it show on a movie?
Of course, there are always these "teenagers" movies which always take place in high schools or universities, where girls and boys join in differents unisex groups, stories where, at first, tipical first aim is popularity and to go out with the most handsome guy or the prettiest girl. In these movies, friends spent great moments together, they laught, they talk about crazy and banal things. But there is always this situation in which the friendship is in danger, confiance breaks, friends argue and stop believing in each other after a long time of fun and enjoyable time together, and they have to fight for their friendship, prove it, and, sometimes, even sacrifice things. Sacrifice is a verb usually conected to friendship, not only in these "teenagers" films, but also in other types of films, like military ones in which the soldiers became friends during the war training and they sacrifice their lives for each other.
But let's continue with "teenager" friendship.
I'm going to put three different examples of this type of films: "Aquamarine", "Wild child" and "Angus, thongs and perfects snogging"

• Aquamarine: Hayley and Clare have been best friends forever, but now Hayley has to move to Australia. Neither of them wants that to happen, so they ask for a miracle. That night, there is a storm and the next moning they find a mermaid named Aqua inside the swimming pool. She has come to earth to prove his father that love exists. She is in love this the beach lifeguard, Raymond, and has to make him love her in three days. If Claire and Hayley help her to archieve that aim, she will give them a wish: Hayley will not move. During these three days, they spent a lot of time together, they live many funny moment, they enjoy themselves and they end up loving Aqua as if they had been friends since always. But the final hour comes and Aqua has to go back because Raymond doesn't love her. Nevertheless, she has prove that love exist, because Hayley and Clare love her.

• Wild child: Poppy Moore is a rich girl that lives in LA that thinks she can do whatever she wants. She's arrogante, childlish and, in one simple word, hateful. Until one day her father sends her to a boarding school in England, where people and manners are completely different. She meets her room mates, the principal and her son, Freddy, but what she really wants is to get out of there. So her room mates work out a plan that can allow her to scape: she has to kiss Freddy and the principal has to see it (because that is forbbiden). But within time, Poppy starts to fall for Freddy and gets to love her room mates, they become friends. And there is this "evil" prefect girl, Harrieth, that hates Poppy and writes a letter pretending to be Poppy, in which she says horrible and painful things about Freddy and the girls. so everybody turns their back on Poppy and she feels really bad. In the end (**Spoiler alert**) she manage to sort things out confessing all her plan to the principal, and the consecuence is expulsion. The problem is that, now, she doesn't want to leave.

• Angus, thongs and perffect snogging: Georgia is a 14-years-old girl, she has an ugly nose and is in love with the new boy in school, Robbie. Her best friend Jas starts to go out with Robbie's brother, which makes her jalous and betrayed, because Jas starts to spend less tie with her and more time with her boyfriend, Robbie and Robbie's girlfriend, the "evil" (again) Lindsay. One day, Robbie kisses Georgia and she thinks she has the situation under control, but Robbie strays from her, so she dates another boy, Dave, who likes Georgia, to make Robbie jealous. The resoult? Jas, Dave and Robbie found out about Georgia's plan and tell her off. She has been selfish and only thinking about herself. After Georgia realises this, she decides to move to New Zeland with his father but, before that, she apologizes to evebody. In the end (**Spoiler Alert**) all forgive her and they live happily ever after.

They are all tipycal "teenagers" movies but friendship can be seen perfectly, maybe on a exagerated way. Both Poppy and Georgia, as well as Aqua, have to do sacrifices to prove true friendship: to be expelled from the school she loves, to move to another country and to go back to her own world. Leave the friends behind. Leave their true loves behind. All for their mistakes. All for good.

I'm now putting a video I did myself in which I show some scenes of Aquamarine where you can see all this "friendship" process.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2HrE53bDEk&feature=player_embedded

True friendship lasts forever.

Sources:

• My own knowledge because I've seen the movies, but anyway, here you have links where you can see the plots: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquamarine , http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Child ,  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus,_Thongs_and_Perfect_Snogging
•  About friendship: http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltConsulta?TIPO_BUS=3&LEMA=amistad

Nora Huarte Castro
35 ways of silent scream
Aka: how to express oneself through...
cinema

Sadness through Animated Films

Hello! I'll introduce myself, my name is Bárbara Méndez and Im studying Visual Communication at Universidad of Navarra, Im very kind of animated stuff, so Im going to talk through six posts, many emotion faces and it's vision through animation, I hope you enjoy all our work, it will be really fun!



This time Im about to talk to you about Emotion through Animation, this week topic is about: Sadness.

Many people usually don't take Animation Film too seriously, it actually haven't won any Oscar Academy Award for Best Movie (yet). But behind those colors and ''easy'' script, are more than a thousand professionals working for years and doing their best to bring this hour and half to your children.

Unlike film, animation is relatively complex, it requires the characterization of fictional characters taking real human roles and universal topics for an audience almost young.
This week will discuss ''Sadness'', but this time ... through cartoons. Weekly I'll show you the impact that these animations do to youth and how is this possible.

This emotional atmosphere is composed in many parts. For example...animated film, has to be convincing, the situation must be credible enough to both, young and adult audiences. Since the topic this week is ''Sadness'' I've made a small compilation of movies that surely if you are of the age of 90, you might still remember that scene when Mufasa gets killed or Bambi lost in the forest beckoning his dead mother. Those sad scenes totally left a footprint on 90's children.



As we are watching, we fell into the deepest memories from our childhood. Some melancholy spark makes us feel strange, moved maybe? This is how the magic of animation works.


We'll start from Bambi (Disney), this little deer is running away with his mother from an evil hunter...her mother keeps telling him to run faster. Bambi refuges himself but he's lost in the forest. There's a shot and some deep silence that wraps the complete atmosphere. Light turns quite down while the snow storm increases, the silence is broken with Bambi's beckon: 'Mom...mom'. Right from afar, the sound of the snow start singing a song...leaving Bambi completely alone. Older children could easily relate the shot with Bambi's lost mother, younger ones would continue the story with Bambi, until is revealed by his father that she would not come anymore.

The next scene belongs to The Lion King (Disney), Simba fell off a tree while a wildebeest stampede approaches. Mufasa (Simba's father) comes to rescue him but the stampede gets into, he tries to scape but his own brother let him die. After the stampede, Simba goes to the corpse hoping he might wake up. This kind of sad plot is combined with a desert way covered in dust. There's lack of color, all the skies and horizons look no more than a dusty gray and dark orange. Simba beckons for somebody to help him, to help his father but the only answer he gets back its his own echo. In animation, the own echo is used to reflect solitude. Simba's voice it's very well elaborated too. There is where Hans Zimmer (Lion King's composer) makes his entrance with 'To die for' to make the scene completely credible, even for my father. I can make some comparisons between Bambi's and Mufasa's scene, Mufasa's is even more emotional than Bambi, since the score is put just in the moment that it should start despite of Bambi's...that they decided just to leave it without any music at all. Of course this is my opinion, this subject might get very subjective, moreover if we are talking about music.

The other scene is from UP, (Disney Pixar) Mr. Carl Fredricksen ( the old man watching the pictures) is checking an old memory book, he has lost his wife, the reason of his life. They present us a cozy atmosphere, rather than the sadness I've talked before, this is a melancholy scene, he's just remembering old times as Michael Giaccino fills the scene with 'Stuff we did' (score). This time, light doesn't take all the credits but furniture! Yes! This time the main credit goes to Scene Decorators, there's a chair beside Mr. Carl, who actually belonged to his dearest wife.

Now one of the saddest movies of the 90's (According to...almost everybody). Dumbo. In this cut, Dumbo's mother is trapped in a trailer, camera goes to her head and starts going down, to make the scene more dramatic...they show her paws chained to the trailer while dumbo starts sniffing with his trunk through the window. She manages to touch him quite slowly and lulls him. Dumbo's tears are the last hope and if there was a mirror on the theatre, I assure you that more than a half would be crying. As she lulls him, Mr Frank Churchill and Ned Washington do their work with the song Baby Mine. That was actually nominated for an oscar in Best Original Song.

So as we watched all those scenes, I can conclude that sadness in Animation, encloses very similar topics, like the loss of a loved one. Why is this? Well, I think that as this movies are made principally for children, the topic would not variate that much. At that age, the loss of a loved one can be taken even more serious because the kid might not have thought in that before. For a kid, Mother and Father are their life heroes, almost immortal in his mind. So, the child reflects himself in ''Simba, Bambi or Dumbo'' as they're presented as children or animal cubs in this case.
I hope you guys have enjoyed this post, Animation is indeed more complex than you thought. It requires the special touch to get to your children's minds.

One·Two·Same

Hey there!
Hello, I'm Cris and I'm here to talk you about that feeling called sadness for the third time this week but 'shhhhhhhhhhhhh'...Let's do it in silence! =)
After talking about it on poesy and films, here comes drawing to give you more headache.

First of all, I have to say I'm happy I could pick drawing as subject because I consider it the most wonderful way of expression.
Drawing has been with me since I was born. My elder sister draws, my younger one (twin of mine) does and so do I. But well, not the same way of course.

 A few years ago, I started developing a huge interest for human being. I think we are the only specie all over the world that can tell the same thing in so many different ways. This has nothing to do with lenguages (English, French, Italian...)
What I mean is that we can express our feeling shouting, crying, in silence, jumping, or even  giggling etc. But I'm not only saying so, no. I'm going further.
Everybody do all this actions in a different way. No one jumps the way other does. I don't even believe that the same person jumps the same way twice.
EVERY SINGLE THING IS DIFFERENT.


That's why I'm here today. I'm gonna show a few drawings I made. You are gonna judge by yourself how, even talking about the same feeling -sadness-, showing it happening to the same specie -human-, and even expressing it the same way -crying, shouting (...)-, none of them look the same.
So let's go ahead.

This one was made when Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix™ was out (2007). All I was thinking about while doing it was showing the pain the character is feeling. Make it real to every one.
Well, here you can see that Harry Potter actor, Daniel Radcliffe, is expressing the pain with eyes heartily closed and open mouth, shouting.

Let's go know to the next drawing.

Here, British actress Emma Watson is crying in BBC's movie Ballet Shoes (2007). I confess I never watched it completely even if I got it at home. But anyway! I watched fair enough to find this heartbreaker moment. I felt it real. I even felt sad while drawing it.

Well, now, compare the two pictures. Eyes closed, mouth fully opened, shouting...But still different, aren't they?
You can read on his face he will figth back soon, you can read on hers, she will keep blue for a long while.
One mood, one way, two answers.

Let's move on.

This was made a year ago or so. I was trying to expose the sadness is felt when you run the risk for anything you want and there's no success. (this time through a guy having impossible feeling for a girl).
Look at the drawing. No crying, no anger, no...nothing. But he's provably worse than people on drawings above.

And Now below, a drawing I made when a relative of mine died last year. Here you can see, a man embracing a girl. You can see them as still as the guy in the previous picture but they are not feeling the same, or not for the same reason, at least. Sadness due to ''internal lost'' is not the same to ''external lost'' even if is lost anyway.

In the last one, they are feeling pain for the death of a beloved person, in the previous one, he is feeling so for the death of his wishes.
But they are feeling it.
Two reasons, two feelings, one answer.

And finally, A drawing ot the American actress Elizabeth Mitchell on her roll of Juliet Burke on TV serie Lost(2004/2010). This specially belongs to the final chapter when she finds on her 'next life' (let's call it this way) her true love.
You may be wondering now, so why is this drawing here?Why? Look at the previous picture. There's people embracing in both!
In the one before last, because they are more alone now, in the very last one, because they won't be alone anymore. But embracing anyway.
In this one, She's pouring out all the sadness She won't need feeling anymore. Like ''Cry out that you won't cry anymore''
One reactions, two feelings, one answer.

So I leave you with this few -but long(sorry)-examples about how different people are and how amazing does this make them all.
See you next week with more drawings, but new topics.

Love,
   Cris.

·Disclaimer·
·Harry Potter belongs to Warner Bros. For more about the Magic World go to its official site.http://harrypotter.la.warnerbros.com/
·Lost episodes can be found at http://abc.go.com/shows/lost/
·Drawing are made by me. I pasted my sign as watermark. If you use them, please give feedback, if you don't, well, I hope nobody ask you for the original drawing which will always be in my carpet.

Clapboard and... cry

“I’ll never understand why Kate had to die and we had to live. There’s no reason for it, I guess. Death’s just death, nobody understands it.”

                                                                                              Anne’s decision (2009)

Hello everyone! My name is Nora Huarte and i'm going to talk about cinema and how feelings, emotions and many more can be express through it. as pilar previously said, we'll talk about a different feeling each week. Enjoy!

Cinema is a parallel universe to life itself, a mirror of our world. Many things can be reflected on it, from the most little and insignificant problem of a rebellious teenager to the world’s biggest issues that worry society and government. Directors and producers look for a good story, a story that wakes up feelings inside the viewers: hapiness, impotence, wellfare or unease..., or, as this week we’re going to talk about, sadness.

When we watch a movie that makes us cry and people ask us: “Was it so sad?” we automaticly answer “yes”, without thinking if it’s really the correct answer. There are also happy endings that move us..

There are a lot of types of “sad” movies, but noone of them would be described as such. They are not “sad” movies but movies that cause sadness in those people who have the sensitivity enough to feel it. The images, the music –or the absence of it-, the script, the planes and, of course, a good performance of the actors are what make up a good scene that make this feeling born in the expectators’ hearts, that these feel that pressure on their chest and that tight sensation on their eyes when they know there is a tear on its way and they think: “I’m not gonna cry, I’m not gonna cry”.

What kind of films cause sadness? Films that deal with explosive subjects, important subjects, emotional subjects... from a human point of view, but not necessarily moral. Subjects that need to be seen from every single angle, every point of view, not only from the correct or accepted one, because people have always longed to know both sides of reality.

It’s not rare that these movies are asociated with subjects like death or illness. Both are subjects that people don’t like to talk about in real life, and that’s why they are reflected in cinema, and why people feel specially vulnerable when they watch them, becuase they fear everything is real. Nevertheless, these subjects are often shown from a close way, almost tangible, we feel them nearer us than they actually are, as if they could turn into something real from night to morning, and it may be the fear or, more probably, the powerlessness, what causes that shattering in which that “I’m not gonna cry, I’m not gonna cry” becomes, with a great sob, a “I’m crying, I’m crying”.

And that’s why, generally, movies “based on real facts” are those that cause this feeling of sadness, sadness to know, or to remember, that they were facts that happened in this world many or not so many years ago, things that were good or bad, things that can’t be errased, things that are there and will remain there forever. But not only things about the past, also things about the present, subjects that are out there nowadays, subjects to which we turn a deaf ear to, we don’t want to know anything because they are so dangerous, awful or, simply, sad to bear with, to treat them, to understand them.

            There’s a separation of this type of films. I’ll put some examples:

            PAST:
            -  Historic: Yesteryear wars (Troy, King Arthur...), First and Second World War (Pearl Harbour) and the most atractive of all –and maybe because it was the most terrific one-, the Holocaust (Schindler’s list, Sophie’s decision...)

-  Anecdotical: Titanic, 11s...

PRESENT:
-  Nowadays subjects: Death and illness (Mar Adentro, Anne’s decision, The elephant man...)

Finally, I must add something.

Many of these “sad” movies involve a subject that it’s, nowadays, compulsory in almost every film: love.

            And this is another big worldwide topic that goes directly to the heart and causes such a variety of feelings that it’s incorrect to mention just one. A one-sided love, an unrequited love, an impossible love, the separation of your love, the distance... are, maybe, the most sad nowadays subjects.

            Why?

Well, maybe because of the opposite of what I have just said. Maybe because it is something so close to us that impacts us on such a special and direct form.

What do you think?

Nora Huarte Castro
35 ways of silent scream
Aka: how to express onself through...
cinema

POEMS THAT MOURN: INKBLOTS

Hello everybody!

   35 Ways of Silent Scream´s finality is to explain the different ways we have to express our feelings and, as we are five people responsible of this weblog, we have divided the theme in different sections.

   At first, I want to explain what is  this particular section of 35 Ways of Silent Scream going to be about. And, for a good understanding of it, there is something I consider important for you to have clear:

   Lyric poetry differs from other kinds of poetry because, in it´s case, the author transmits a particular mood; to say it in another way, lyric poetry is often characterized by introspection and the expression of feelings. For this reason, it is the perfect kind of poetry to conquist our goal: the explanation of feelings from the poetry´s point of view.

   The theme of the posts you will find here, in 35 Ways of Silent Scream, this week, is the

SADNESS. 

   And, as the section I'm in charge is related to the genre of poetry, may I give you know one of the most heartfelt and beautiful poems I have ever read or heard. It belongs to Miguel Hernández (1910-1942), a leading poet and playwright of the twentieth century Spanish literature. It´s title (Elegy) refers to the poetic genre to which it belongs and of which we speak here today.

  The Elegy is a subgenre of lyric poetry that consists on regret anything that is lost: the illusion, life, time, a loved one, a feeling, and so on, although in it´s origin was not necessarily so, as evidenced by the elegies of archaic Greek poets.

   In many cases, it´s also a poem written in honor and memory of a deceased person. Very famous are the verses that Jorge Manrique dedicated to his father, or the Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías, written by Federico García Lorca as well as the Elegy from Miguel Hernández to Ramón Sijé which I mentioned before and that I have copied under these lines for you to enjoy it. 

   In my case, I had the oportunity to see it represented by a theater director and actor and it was terrific to hear it from someone who transmited so much passion. He screamed and yelled and almost cried!! All the despair and pain that the author felt for the death of his teacher and very friend, Ramón Sijé, is reflected in every single verse. It is a perfect example of the subject we are writing about this week.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.  

Elegy

In Orihuela, his village and mine, 
died as from the ray Ramón Sijé, 
with whom I so much wanted.

"Yo quiero ser llorando el hortelano
de la tierra que ocupas y estercolas,
compañero del alma, tan temprano.

Alimentando lluvias, caracolas
y órganos mi dolor sin instrumento
a las desalentadas amapolas

daré tu corazón por alimento.
Tanto dolor se agrupa en mi costado,
que por doler me duele hasta el aliento.

Un manotazo duro, un golpe helado,
un hachazo invisible y homicida,
un empujón brutal te ha derribado.

No hay extensión más grande que mi herida,
lloro mi desventura y sus conjuntos
y siento más tu muerte que mi vida

[...]

A las aladas almas de las rosas

del almendro de nata le requiero,
que tenemos que hablar de muchas cosas,
compañero del alma, compañero."

 Here you are the next directions, for if you want to read the full version of the poem and watch  it on video:

http://html.rincondelvago.com/la-elegia-a-ramon-sije_miguel-hernandez.html


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-R8jBekmqk&feature=related