Rock River Tree

A Computer Graphics Interpretation of
Maya Angelou's Poem “On the Pulse of Morning”

by Peter Y. Chou


Table of Contents: Page
Preface 1
Maya Angelou's Inaugural Poem “On the Pulse of Morning”
(reproduced from the San Francisco Examiner,1-20-93)
2
Free association clustering exercise for Rock 3
Free association clustering exercise for River 4
Free association clustering exercise for Tree 5
Symbolism of Rock, River, Tree
from Cirlot's A Dictionary of Symbols (1962)
6
Symbolism of Rock, River, Tree
from Gaskell's Dictionary of All Scriptures and Myths (1960)
7-8
Images of Rock, River, & Tree from the Bible, Philosophy, & Poetry 9
Source of Portraits from postage stamps used for the Tree of Life 10
Source of U.S. stamps used in the River of American History 11
The Tree of Life— computer graphics using Adobe Illustrator 12
American Tree— graphic page layout using QuarkXPress 13
Inspiring words from voices on the Tree of Life:
Fuzuli, Washington, Jefferson, Lafayette, Whitman, Emily Dickinson,
John Muir, Chief Josef, Chief Hollow Horn Bear, Victor Herbert,
14
Tagore, Einstein, Hammarskjöld, J.F. Kennedy, M.L. King, Clinton, Angelou 15
“The Talking Tree” by Peter Y. Chou 16



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