Matisse: “The Red Studio” by W.D. Snodgrass has so much
liveliness even though the objects in the painting are inanimate. The energy
weaved into the poem is invigorating. “Like a great beast sinking into sands,”
is such a powerful and imaginative line. The poet portrays the studio to
produce life with an electric vibe. The line “his own room drank him” unifies
the real and the unreal. The room looks like a warm red wine, the play on
imagination that the room consumes the artists is cunning. I love the personification
of the red walls, “ the belly of these walls that burn.” The line evokes me to
imagine the wall swallowing up these paintings but at the same time, the
paintings stay stationary.
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