Yesterday, I did three things to help my creativity:
- As part of an HTML assignment, I coded a table where you can create your own mistranslation of “Deer Park” by Wang Wei based on a mistranslation I’ve been playing around with. (I attempted to drop that code exactly into this website, and it didn’t quite play with WordPress, but I did code a lot of it! I just had to let WordPress convert it into a ‘block’ that it was familiar with.) At the end of this list, there’s an example poem, where I asked Google to give me random numbers between 1 and 9 for each line/column:
- I worked on my lit mag, Penelle Magazine.
- Example poem:
hills
groves, distorted
an emerald
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Using the table below, create a mistranslated poem! Follow the instructions to create a short piece inspired by “Deer Park” by Wang Wei.
| Line One | Line Two | Line Three | Line Four |
|---|---|---|---|
| empty mountain | no one comes back | shadows return | again |
| hills | voice | shadow is dusk into the tree | an emerald |
| Hear the sound returned | Doe in shadows | woods, light | no fourth line |
| barren place | shadows are eroding | groves, distorted | light the swamp again |
| desolate hilltop | windswept tones | shapes become distortion | the dim marsh reignites the swamp |
| wind blown mountaintop | misshaped into Response | overhead, trees | reignite the swamp |
| wisdom set, | becomes deformed | an off weightlessness topped | no fourth line |
| Restoring the faded weightlessness of trees | no second line | no third line | no fourth line |
| The breeze no long blows over the peak | evergreen floatability | Translation shapes realization | no fourth line |
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