Analysis of The Drawing Room



As a child I was free to go as I wanted, my parents and teachers stood to the side of me often watching curiously, or going about their own business. I lorded over them for their attention to what I was doing.
My hands were creating movie characters from blocks of clay and stapling together books I had illustrated by hand with writing that was darned illegible .
I sometimes ask if this same spirit of creativity is with me still. It does not come often
when I want it, and then the depressions come like betrayals of myself.
The freedom is sometimes there, but
Nothing comes to the page or drawing pad
Maybe it is same frustration I need to be reminded of.
When the home movie would go wrong
And I would hit the camera or my sister for blocking the lens.


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Characters 763
Words 149
Sentences 8
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 67
Words per line (avg) 16
Letters per stanza (avg) 603
Words per stanza (avg) 144

About this poem

A poem on the issues we might encounter in the creative process.

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Written on April 18, 2022

Submitted by imccleary on April 18, 2022

Modified on March 06, 2023

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Ian McCleary

I am a thirty year old poet from New Jersey. I write observational poems and poems on the state of human creativity and the power of human creativity that is undermined by the corporate structure of our society. more…

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