Mikaela's discussion of Frank O'Hara's poem The Day the Lady Died as related to redemption was interesting. She claimed that art's quality of redemption was its ability to profoundly affect someone and make a connection between creator and perceiver. In describing the way O'Hara was redeemed by the music of Billie Holiday, the subject of the poem, Mikaela offers puts a new layer of meaning onto Chandler's words. Redemption is more than a righting of one's wrongs, it is a near spiritual elevation of the self. In this sense, anything that truly moves or connects an audience can be called true art.
I used the same quote and poem as Caroline, yet she went a slightly different direction with her analysis of the quote and poem. This actually goes to prove the point she makes, that art is a difference of interpretations. While I had taken the quote to mean something slightly cynical--that art is a means of man showing the world his specific and overrated opinions on life and his surroundings--Caroline interpreted it in a much more positive manner. She basically said that while an artist may express their views of events, it is the viewers' varying interpretations that make it evocative art, which is a really cool and much more comforting thought.
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