And now for the character collage....

Here is the latest update of my poem collage..

Collage revisions

Here's my revised collage for the character Billy Pilgrim of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five.

Here's my revised version of the collage for Sharon Olds' poem The Race. I worked on making the image flow a little more smoothly, most of the changes being the placement of things. Here's the original version, which has all of the image sources; no new images in this one.

See Poem Collage blogpost for image list.

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Robert Frost "The Road Not Taken"
**I used all the same images as the original collage**

I used most of the same images as my last Dorothy collage. I used a different rainbow scene. (http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=147866718&size=o)

I chose to represent the character Blanche DuBois of A Streetcar Named Desire. Blanche is a character who constantly strives to hide the truth. Blanche would like for people to believe she is wealthy, while in truth her family has recently gone broke and lost everything, including the family estate Belle Reve. She lost her young husband, whom she discovered to be a friend of Dorothy (a homosexual), to suicide. To top it off, Blanche has a bad alcohol problem. Blanche tries to hide all of these things with a façade of class and beauty, when in fact she is an aging tramp.

Elizabeth Bishop's "The Filling Station" is a poem that expresses the idea that everyone is loved by someone. This filling station is filthy and made black with grease—so oily that if someone were to light a match, the whole place would be in instant ruins. The only color comes from a stack of old comic books. Though the father and the pack of sons are dirty, oily, gas-station attendants, someone loves them. That someone puts effort into bringing a little beauty and comfort to their otherwise filthy environment.

I created this collage on The Story of a Drawer.
References:
Dresser
Hand Holding Gun
Robbery Scene
Cobra
Lightning
Open Book

Here is my collage inspired by Poe's short story The Tell-Tale Heart.

Room with Stool

Heart

Eyeball

My collage was submitted as images and they aren't showing up on the blog, so here's a link to both of them:

Tyler Durden from Fight Club Collage
We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks

Hester Prynne is the female protagonist of the book Scarlett Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. A patch of fabric in the shape of an “A,” that she must wear at all time signifies Hester's affair with a Puritan minister named Dimmesdale, while her true husband was overseas. Her affair led to a child out of wedlock and she had a young daughter by the name of Pearl to further make known her mishap. Hester must deal with the shame and scorn of bearing this Scarlet "A" and deal with the tribulations of this ultra conservative town and the controversy she has caused.

This collage respresents the poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owens

This collage respresents the poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owens

This novel is based in the South it is a fictionalized account of the life of the author Margaret Walker's great-grandmother, Vyry. Majority takes place on her master's plantation. She marries and has two children before the war begins. As the war between the Confederate States and the Union Army begin, her husband leaves to secure his freedom. This novel is about the suffering of a slave woman and her desire for freedom. When the war ends, with Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation she meets another man, and they marry, and head to Alabama to start their new life of freedom.

"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth
Full Poem

Sources:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/twominions/456830848/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrsdarcy/479130983/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/raybyrne/436851953/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/julieastaub/749578581/