The difference between poetry & prose is that you don’t have to follow grammar rules with poetry - [A] Marge Piercy and Barbie Doll poem. use 'Audition' drawing to combine with this somehow #Project/Art ![[2025-07-02#Poetry]] ## _The Eye_ ^6a5ba3 The Atlantic is a stormy moat; and the Mediterranean, The blue pool in the old garden, More than five thousand years has drunk sacrifice Of ships and blood, and shines in the sun; but here the Pacific – Our ships, planes, wars are perfectly irrelevant. ```tasks path includes {{query.file.path}} not done ``` e world-quarrel of westering And eastering man, the bloody migrations, greed of power, clash of faiths – Is a speck of dust on the great scale-pan. ![[A vast panoramic view of the Pacific Ocean 2.jpg]] Here from this mountain shore, headland beyond stormy headland plunging like dolphins through the blue sea-smoke Into pale sea – look west at the hill of water: it is half the planet: this dome, this half-globe, this bulging Eye of water, arched over to Asia, Australia and white Antarctica: those are the eyelids that never close; this is the staring unsleeping Eye of the earth; and what it watches is not our wars. ![[A vast_panoramic_view_.jpg]] By Robinson Jeffers # An illustration of the poem *The Eye* could be: **"A vast, panoramic view of the Pacific Ocean as seen from a mountainous coastline. The ocean stretches endlessly, its surface a shimmering, unbroken expanse of blue, resembling a colossal, unblinking eye. The horizon curves dramatically, emphasizing the Earth's spherical shape, with distant landmasses like Asia, Australia, and Antarctica faintly visible as if they form the 'eyelids' of this immense 'eye.' Stormy headlands jut into the sea, their rugged forms resembling dolphins leaping through the misty sea-smoke. The scene conveys a sense of timelessness and grandeur, contrasting the insignificance of human conflicts with the enduring, watchful presence of nature."** This description captures the poem's themes of the Pacific Ocean as a vast, eternal observer, indifferent to human struggles and wars, while emphasising its awe-inspiring scale and beauty.