PERIOD 3 "This is a Photograph of Me" by

2024-09-17 17:42:21 UTC

The photograph was taken the day after I drowned

2024-09-17 17:42:29 UTC

“This photograph was taken the day after I drowned”

Dellano(Ella) Millar

2024-09-17 17:42:34 UTC

“The photograph was taken the day after I drowned.”

2024-09-17 17:42:43 UTC

“but if you look long enough,

eventually

you will be able to see me.)”

2024-09-17 17:42:45 UTC

“I am in the lake in the center of the picture, just under the surface.”

-Alejandro

ikozasky2025_3 — 2024-09-17 17:42:49 UTC

“The photograph was taken the day after I drowned.”(Atwood)

2024-09-17 17:42:49 UTC

“But if you look long enough,

eventually

you will be able to see me.”

Thomas Plotkin

2024-09-17 17:42:51 UTC

How large or small I am: the effect of the light is distortion

2024-09-17 17:42:54 UTC

“But if you look long enough eventually you will be able to see me “

2024-09-17 17:43:01 UTC

the photograph was taken the day after I drowned

2024-09-17 17:43:03 UTC

I am in the lake, in the center of the picture, just under the surface.

2024-09-17 17:43:08 UTC

“But if you look long enough, eventually you will be able to see me “

2024-09-17 17:43:13 UTC

“…but if you look long enough eventually you will be able to see me”

2024-09-17 17:43:16 UTC

The photograph was taken the day after I drowned.

2024-09-17 17:43:17 UTC

“The effect of water on light is a distortion but if you look long enough, eventually you will be able to see me.”

Shaw Siegel

2024-09-17 17:43:17 UTC

if you look long enough eventually you will be able to see me

eynclan2025_3 — 2024-09-17 17:43:20 UTC

“The photograph was taken the day after I drowned.”

2024-09-17 17:43:23 UTC

The photograph was taken the day after I drowned.

2024-09-17 17:43:24 UTC

“It is difficult to say where precisely, or to say how large or small I am: the effect of water on light is a distortion”

2024-09-17 17:43:26 UTC

The effect of water on light is a distortion

2024-09-17 17:43:27 UTC

“The photograph was taken the day after I drowned”

2024-09-17 17:43:27 UTC

“But if you look long enough eventually you will see me”

2024-09-17 17:43:28 UTC

“It is difficult to say where precisely, or to say how large or small I am”

2024-09-17 17:43:28 UTC

“but if you look long enough, eventually you will be able to see me.”

Aidan Furmanski

2024-09-17 17:43:29 UTC

“but if you look long enough,

eventually

you will be able to see me”

2024-09-17 17:43:36 UTC

The effect of water on light is a distortion

2024-09-17 17:43:47 UTC

“The photograph was taken the day after I drowned.”

2024-09-17 17:43:48 UTC

“The photograph was taken the day after I drowned.”

2024-09-17 17:43:49 UTC

“But if you look long enough eventually you will be able to see me“

2024-09-17 17:43:49 UTC

“But if you look long enough, eventually

You will be able to see me.”)

Carlo Rufo

crufo2025_3 — 2024-09-17 17:43:51 UTC

but if you look long enough,

eventually

you will be able to see me.

2024-09-17 17:43:53 UTC

“The photograph was taken the day after I drowned”

2024-09-17 17:43:57 UTC

“But if you look long enough eventually, you will be able to see me”

2024-09-17 17:43:57 UTC

Its difficult to say where precisely, or to say how large or small I am

2024-09-17 17:43:58 UTC

But if you look close enough, eventually you will be able to see me

2024-09-17 17:44:01 UTC

“…but if you look long enough you will eventually be able to see me”

2024-09-17 17:44:02 UTC

“The photograph was taken the day after I drowned”

2024-09-17 17:44:03 UTC

The day after I drowned

“The photograph was taken the day after I drowned “

2024-09-17 17:44:06 UTC

2024-09-17 17:44:10 UTC

“ the photo was taken the day after I drowned”

2024-09-17 17:44:11 UTC

“then, as you scan

it, you see in the left-hand corner

a thing that is like a branch”

2024-09-17 17:44:14 UTC

“ the photograph was taken the day after I drowned”

2024-09-17 17:44:15 UTC

“The photograph was taken the day after I drowned”

2024-09-17 17:44:16 UTC

“It is difficult to say where precisely, or to say how large or small I am: the effect of water on light is a distortion”

2024-09-17 17:44:18 UTC

I am in the lake, in the center of the picture, just under the surface

2024-09-17 17:44:18 UTC

It is difficult to say where precisely . . . I am the effect on th water on light is a distortion

2024-09-17 17:44:19 UTC

“I am in the lake, in the center of the picture, just under the surface.”

2024-09-17 17:44:19 UTC

“At first it seems to be a smeared print: blurred lines and grey flecks blended with the paper”

2024-09-17 17:44:24 UTC

But if you look long enough, eventually you will be able to see me

2024-09-17 17:44:25 UTC

In the background is a lake, and beyond that, some low hills.

2024-09-17 17:44:26 UTC

“The photograph was taken the day after I drowned”

2024-09-17 17:44:26 UTC

“The photograph was taken the day after I drowned.”

-Alejandro

Aidan Furmanski

2024-09-17 17:44:32 UTC

“I am in the lake, in the center

of the picture, just under the surface”

2024-09-17 17:44:34 UTC

“(The photograph was taken the day after I drowned.”

hlu2025_3 — 2024-09-17 17:44:35 UTC

I am in the lake, in the center of the pictures, just under the surface.

2024-09-17 17:44:36 UTC

I am in the lake, in the center of the picture, just under the surface

2024-09-17 17:44:38 UTC

“It is difficult to say where precisely, or how large or small I am.”

2024-09-17 17:44:46 UTC

“But if you look long enough eventually you will be able to see me.”

2024-09-17 17:44:52 UTC

“It is difficult to say where precisely, or to say how large or small I am: the effect of water on light is a distortion”

Carlo Rufo

crufo2025_3 — 2024-09-17 17:44:56 UTC

I am in the lake, in the center

of the picture, just under the surface.

eynclan2025_3 — 2024-09-17 17:44:57 UTC

“a thing that is like branch: part of a tree (balsam or spruce) emerging”

2024-09-17 17:44:58 UTC

“I am in the lake, in the center of the picture, just under the surface.”

2024-09-17 17:45:01 UTC

“The photograph was taken the day after I drowned”

2024-09-17 17:45:06 UTC

“It is difficult to say where precisely”

2024-09-17 17:45:06 UTC

“it is difficult to say precisely, or to say how large or small i am”

2024-09-17 17:45:11 UTC

I am in the lake, in the center of the picture, just under the surface.

ikozasky2025_3 — 2024-09-17 17:45:14 UTC

“…eventually you will be able to see me”(Atwood)

“The photograph was taken the day after I drowned.”

2024-09-17 17:45:15 UTC

2024-09-17 17:45:16 UTC

“It is difficult to say where precisely, or to say how large or small I am…”

2024-09-17 17:45:36 UTC

“ then as you scan it, you see in the left-hand corner a thing that is like a branch”

2024-09-17 17:45:42 UTC

This line may mean that the truth sometimes isn’t completely clear, and can be distorted.

2024-09-17 17:45:49 UTC

“The photograph was taken the day after I drowned”

2024-09-17 17:45:54 UTC

“It is difficult to say where precisely, or to say how large or small I am”

2024-09-17 17:46:08 UTC

It’s describing how we are unable to truly be able to perceive the narrator as their image is distorted by the water

2024-09-17 17:46:09 UTC

This just shows that when light hits water it creates some type of illusion, giving a deeper meaning of the truth isn’t always what it looks like on the outside.

2024-09-17 17:46:13 UTC

It means the truth is hard to find sometimes.

2024-09-17 17:46:18 UTC

The water hides the history of things that have happened there

2024-09-17 17:46:23 UTC

I think it means that many things have deeper meanings beneath the surface, but often get hidden by what is already apparent and obvious.

2024-09-17 17:46:25 UTC

perhaps the poet is insinuating that there is more under the surface that can only be revealed through a shift in perspective.

2024-09-17 17:46:27 UTC

It has imagery of where she drowned, and how it would have been hard to see her body. Illustrating how things aren’t always as they seem

2024-09-17 17:46:28 UTC

This line could mean that the true meaning of the photograph is up to interpretation and is warped by all that’s affecting it

2024-09-17 17:46:28 UTC

i thought that the water represents the speaker’s memory. over time it has become distorted to the point where they can only recognize their burial place through old photographs

2024-09-17 17:46:35 UTC

The line shows that the lighter aspects can hide darker aspects hidden underneath

-Alejandro

2024-09-17 17:46:42 UTC

What you see may not be true, it may be an illusion.

2024-09-17 17:46:42 UTC

The figurative expression of this line is that truth can be easily twisted by one’s actions

2024-09-17 17:46:45 UTC

Truth can be twisted and distorted in a way that can be hard to interpret

2024-09-17 17:46:49 UTC

I think this line means that even though the truth may be hidden just under the surface, it still isn’t easy to see and the truth you see may not be the whole truth.

2024-09-17 17:46:52 UTC

Water helps to cover up the truth of the narrator drowning, and the distortion it caused symbolized the mess behind the event.

2024-09-17 17:46:55 UTC

I think this line means that things aren’t always what they seem to be.

2024-09-17 17:46:57 UTC

Usually people say, light on water makes it hard to see or tell what an object is. However in this context, I think the narrator is trying to tell us that the water on the light is affecting how the photograph is seen.

2024-09-17 17:47:01 UTC

I think that it means that the effect on the water is a sort of front to what’s hidden beneath the surface.

2024-09-17 17:47:05 UTC

I think the line “the effect of water on light is a distortion” represents a lot of imagery that ties into the message of that there’s always a deeper meaning of something right under the surface.

2024-09-17 17:47:09 UTC

I think the poet is saying truth can be hazing in different situations.

Carlo Rufo

crufo2025_3 — 2024-09-17 17:47:09 UTC

It is hard to see what lays beneath the surface of a story

2024-09-17 17:47:17 UTC

I think it means things aren’t what they seem to be

Aidan Furmanski

2024-09-17 17:47:18 UTC

The line speaks to the difficulty a viewer may have in deciphering where the subject (Atwood) truly is.

2024-09-17 17:47:20 UTC

This means that the light makes water reflect which blocks the truth that is below the surface of the water.

2024-09-17 17:47:25 UTC

light distorts images in the water which can make it hard to see the real thing underneath.

2024-09-17 17:47:25 UTC

The light hitting the water creates a false image just like how truth said differently can create a new truth

2024-09-17 17:47:28 UTC

It could be indicating that water makes everything unclear, and the speaker could be referring what the water did to themself.

2024-09-17 17:47:33 UTC

when you take a picture, a camera is capturing light. The way water moves and is dark makes it hard to capture light which makes it distorted. In the story we can understand that the narrator is right beneath the surface of the water, not visible to us because of the water’s impact on light.

2024-09-17 17:47:37 UTC

This line represents the loss of life through visual imagery. The description is slowly getting more vague and uncertain, in which the narrator uses the term “distortion” to signify loss and how someone becomes forgotten

eynclan2025_3 — 2024-09-17 17:47:38 UTC

The way things are portrayed with the effects of lighting can affect how much of the picture people can see and understand. The light and water can hide the fact that there is a body in the lake and nobody would know.

2024-09-17 17:47:38 UTC

The truth is distorted as the effect of water is distortion

2024-09-17 17:47:50 UTC

This line is trying to communicate why it was hard to see her in the water

ikozasky2025_3 — 2024-09-17 17:47:59 UTC

The writer is justifying why her placement can’t be placed precisely. Though it’s not in a scientific way but more of an symbolic way with the narrator being the light that the water distorted.

2024-09-17 17:48:06 UTC

The light only shines on the surface of the water, and it’s a distortion, which means what’s on the surface does not show the truth of what’s underneath. It’s like a metaphor for saying that we see on the surface doesn’t tell us anything.

hlu2025_3 — 2024-09-17 17:48:09 UTC

This line show that her body no matter big or small got cover by the light of water. Like it doesn’t matter stuff you did that big or msall ther will be something that cover / hide you

Carlo Rufo

crufo2025_3 — 2024-09-17 17:48:36 UTC

There are many layers to an event, person, or story, the only way you will find the answer is by exploring its depths

2024-09-17 17:48:40 UTC

It’s taken at one moment in time. So it only shows that moment as true and nothing that happened in the past

2024-09-17 17:48:44 UTC

The photograph symbolizes that truth can be “smeared”, which means that truth maybe covered or hidden from time to time.

2024-09-17 17:48:53 UTC

The photograph portrays the malleability of truth with the line “the effect of water on light is a distortion.”

2024-09-17 17:48:59 UTC

The photograph doesn’t show everything. it doesn’t show the narrator

2024-09-17 17:49:03 UTC

It shows how truth can be deceived and how visions can be manipulated depending on your view of something

2024-09-17 17:49:04 UTC

Depending on how you look at the photo and process it, what you’re looking at could shift by analyzing it

2024-09-17 17:49:11 UTC

The photography shows us the moment but we can’t actually see and understand everything that’s going on without the explanation from the narrator. there are several truths here and one doesn’t make the other one not true

2024-09-17 17:49:11 UTC

Truth in the photo is displayed one way such as the light hiding the body, and on other layer of truth that is revealed if you look hard enough to see the body

2024-09-17 17:49:12 UTC

This photograph shows us that without context something can have a completely different meaning than what we originally thought.

2024-09-17 17:49:13 UTC

The photograph illustrates how different perspectives might alter the malleability of truth

2024-09-17 17:49:17 UTC

At first the image is not as it seems. It looks distorted but in reality there is a lot more that goes into the photo. not everything is as it seems the truth can lie much deeper than believed

2024-09-17 17:49:20 UTC

It’s showing that truth isn’t what lies on the outside and that their are many layers/events that could distort the truth

2024-09-17 17:49:22 UTC

Truth is dependent on perspective. With the photo, from an initial perspective it was just a picture, but upon closer examination there is more to it.

2024-09-17 17:49:24 UTC

A photograph can only capture a certain moment rather than the entirety of an event, it only shows what you want to see.

2024-09-17 17:49:33 UTC

The photograph can only be taken once stating that truth can be deceiving as you never see the full context from just looking at a picture

ikozasky2025_3 — 2024-09-17 17:49:35 UTC

The first half of the poem consists of a lie of omission. While technically they didn’t say anything false, the narrator still hides the fact that they are dead until the second half.

2024-09-17 17:49:36 UTC

The photograph symbolizes the malleability of truth by shining a light on the fact that the photo of the lake contained a sinister secret veiled beneath a layer of still beauty.

2024-09-17 17:49:41 UTC

since the photograph was taken in the past and without the narrator actually shown in it, the truth is hidden and only shows a relaxing nature scene—not the cold hint of death beneath the surface

2024-09-17 17:49:41 UTC

The photograph is deceptive. if we only look once we may not see there is a body under the water. It being a picture of a lake and it being a picture of her drowned body can both be true at once.

eynclan2025_3 — 2024-09-17 17:49:50 UTC

Truth can easily be hidden by what we can’t see or understand, like hidden danger of a snake being in the tall grass. The light hides the snake making people unaware of the trouble.

2024-09-17 17:49:50 UTC

The photograph symbolizes the malleability of truth because it shows that at first what first appears on the picture might be the truth, but the t truth might be change with further inspection.

2024-09-17 17:49:52 UTC

I think the photograph symbolizes the malleability of truth in the sense that it can be deceptive and especially that’s mentioned with the smeared print and the distortion which shows us that the narrator isn’t giving us a whole picture.

2024-09-17 17:50:01 UTC

The photograph how even though you may see something to be one thing, like how it is in the photograph, it could be something else behind the picture, context you don’t know.

2024-09-17 17:50:08 UTC

The photo shows only a part of the truth, and the rest is hidden away

-Alejandro

2024-09-17 17:50:09 UTC

The photo symbolizes that without broader information the truth can be warped

2024-09-17 17:50:12 UTC

The photo represents malleability of truth because it was trying to show that everything is normal in the still image and hiding the tragic events of yesterday.

2024-09-17 17:50:13 UTC

A photograph symbolizes a specific moment and time which shows the truths mallebility but it’s something where you don’t know the whole story.

2024-09-17 17:50:17 UTC

“The photograph is described in a way that makes it seem very peaceful when in reality it holds a dark background. So I think it shows that the truth can be altered.

2024-09-17 17:50:37 UTC

Murder or accident, since the narrator was not found yet and their body still lies under the lake.

2024-09-17 17:50:41 UTC

I think that they might have fallen off of a boat and nobody noticed until later that they were gone.

2024-09-17 17:50:43 UTC

It symbolizes the malleability of truth by indicating that things may not be as they seem, and we don’t know the full extent of what may be happening.

2024-09-17 17:50:46 UTC

It symbolizes this because a picture can’t capture things people feel

2024-09-17 17:50:48 UTC

The photograph is just a partial truth of the moment. You can make that one moment seem happy, sad, or anyway you want to present. It is a truth at the moment but it doesn’t cover what happened before or what will happen after.

2024-09-17 17:50:50 UTC

It expresses how in the photograph though it may seem simple. in reality it has a much deeper story behind it.

2024-09-17 17:50:53 UTC

Because she has been there a day and nobody has found her I’m guessing she was killed.

Aidan Furmanski

2024-09-17 17:50:55 UTC

A photograph can portray a subjective truth and an objective truth. A subjective truth may be that the drowned subject is visible beneath the surface of the water. While an objective truth is the fact that the photograph is indeed of the author.

2024-09-17 17:50:56 UTC

I believe that this could’ve been either a careless mistake or something purposeful and like the poem, the cause of death is up to interpretation.

2024-09-17 17:51:03 UTC

Getting whipped off a tube and being too injured to swim.

2024-09-17 17:51:06 UTC

I predict it was a murder because of how her body is still in that lake

2024-09-17 17:51:08 UTC

I believe that the speaker was murdered bringing on another deeper societal message of invisibility

2024-09-17 17:51:12 UTC

I think what caused her to drown could’ve been that she did it herself and the last line shows that she is still out there in the lake.

2024-09-17 17:51:16 UTC

I think suicide. the speaker’s tone is solemn and lonely. it’s possible that they were isolated during their life, and not really seen due to the lines “but if you look long enough, eventually you will be able to see me”

2024-09-17 17:51:21 UTC

What i predict caused this is was her own doing. This poem does not seem vengeful, only sorrowful as if she’s still grieving herself.

2024-09-17 17:51:21 UTC

The way that the poem describes the death so matter of fact and void of harsh emotion seems to signify suicide as a probable cause, the poet unbothered by the fact that their body remains unseen.

2024-09-17 17:51:24 UTC

The speaker might of died in accident maybe swinging off a tree.

2024-09-17 17:51:25 UTC

Maybe it was just an accident, or someone could have killed her

eynclan2025_3 — 2024-09-17 17:51:29 UTC

The speaker was drowned by someone else, they where attacked by someone they trusted and payed the price for not not seeing the whole truth.

2024-09-17 17:51:31 UTC

I think the drowning could be caused by a murder because the photo is old and blurry and maybe signifies that the photo was found and in under investigation.

2024-09-17 17:51:39 UTC

I think what caused the speaker to drowned was they fell into the lake and couldn’t swim.

2024-09-17 17:51:41 UTC

I think the speaker commited suicide because no one has found her body yet

2024-09-17 17:51:54 UTC

Probably by falling over while on a boat

2024-09-17 17:51:56 UTC

It can be an accident and the photographer coincidentally captured that moment

2024-09-17 17:52:02 UTC

I think the speaker died, by murder because nobody else has found her body, and she doesn’t know how her body is currently .

2024-09-17 17:52:06 UTC

I think that she could have been out on the lake by herself and she just fell in the lake and no one found her

2024-09-17 17:52:08 UTC

She was murdered since nobody seems to find her

2024-09-17 17:52:22 UTC

I believe it was suicide, the poem had a feeling of sorrow and loneliness behind its words.

2024-09-17 17:52:28 UTC

It could likely be murder or suicide because nobody has found them yet

2024-09-17 17:52:31 UTC

I think that it might’ve been an accident, that happened when she was alone because nobody found her body after she fell in.

hlu2025_3 — 2024-09-17 17:52:37 UTC

If you look long enough you will be able to see the truth behind the “truth” or an event. That behind all those low hills and beautiful mountain and lame , under the water there is a person drowning

ikozasky2025_3 — 2024-09-17 17:52:52 UTC

I believe that the drowning was at least not an accident. The confident matter-of-fact tone says to me this was either a suicide or murder..

2024-09-17 17:52:53 UTC

It might have been suicide because she was in the middle of the lake, where no one can reach.

-Alejandro

2024-09-17 17:53:09 UTC

I think she committed suicide.

2024-09-17 17:53:26 UTC

I think it was caused by her drowning, not murder, because the narrator is very calm about her death, and if she was murdered, she would be more upset.

2024-09-17 17:53:36 UTC

I believe the photograph symbolizes the malleability of truth by implying that truths have hidden truths

Carlo Rufo

crufo2025_3 — 2024-09-17 17:54:06 UTC

We have no clue as to what caused this, since she is described as alone it could have been either a slip and fall or a suicide, but we unfortunately won’t know. It is up to interpretation.

2024-09-17 17:55:15 UTC

I think it was an accident

Aidan Furmanski

2024-09-17 17:55:32 UTC

The cause of the author’s death isn’t a prominent subject of the poem, leaving the reader to make their own interpretation

2024-09-17 17:55:48 UTC

It’s up to the imagination, but it could be murder because of the authors scary tones.