“She Is Far From The Land” Thomas Hood http://www.vampandtramp.com/broadside/t/trystpress.html

In the article by Kyle Schlesinger, we review many different types of broadsides. This broadsides by Thomas Hood exemplifies the characteristics of a broadside discussed by Kyle Schlesinger. The poem is set on a . We can see that this printed text and image clearly utilizes a single page.  The text on the image is set on a very small scale and on an even baseline with regular letterspacing. This creates a strong visual weight of flowing down and cascading down.

The idea of total immersion is defined by Kyle as “the text is an image and the image is a text”. This can be seen that the text of She Is Far From Land by the way it emulates the motion of a waves crashing and falling down. It starts out small at the top, but continues to trickle down with wider lines of text. The title, She Is From Land acts as a divider between the land and the water and the letterspacing of the words are wider suggesting it is not part of the poem and is the title. The decision of having the images of the sea-creatures at the bottom evokes this sense of mystery that lies at the bottom of the ocean where the darkest secrets of the water lie. Also noting the fact that the image/text relationship is different since the scale between the two are different. This creates a visual hierarchy between the two and showing the dominant presence of the images over the small scaled text. One thing that we notice or rather that we don’t notice is there is no overlapping or layering in this piece so the chaos of the words and images don’t seem present. The paper looks organized and condensed into a simple vertical line falling down.