DDCPoetry

 Analysis of "Large Reclining Nude" by Lois M. Harrod Poem found here:  http://www.versedaily.org/2021/largerecliningnude.shtml This is an eckphrastic poem based on this painting: "Pink Nude" by Henri Matisse The first line comes in first person perspective presumably from the subject of the painting.  "I said to him I said why did you / make me so big,"  Note how the first lines from this perspective refers to the artist, directs towards the artist as though she is the driving the conversation of questioning the artist about forced perspective. "why / you make the white bedspread / look like a black and white / tiled floor,"  The difference between a forced perspective and what is real.  From the subject's perspective, the art piece doesn't reflect reality just like how big the subject is." "do you want people / to think I let you take me in the / kitchen."  The phrasing implies something more intimate with "take me....