Goal: I am taking pages out of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and producing my own erasure poems. I am selecting certain pages and scenes and finding haiku poems within the text. I have circled the words for each poem and am drawing a design for the entire page. I am then painting the design and making an “erasure poem” art piece inspired by the “Humament.”

The haikus relate to the plot and theme of Gatsby and the painting around the poem will as well. Each page selected from the book also has a significance in regards to the poem. For example the haiku “Blind eyes, too late love/ball drifting on air, his one/burning past, eyes lie” is produced from the page that depicts the scene where Daisy states that she does not only love Gatsby, but also loves Tom. Gatsby’s ideal image of love and Daisy is ruined, and his goal of repeating the past turns out to be impossible.