Here is my blackout poem on the Veldt. I used a page from The Chrysalids (page 1), and blacked out words to create a poem, on traditional paper.

My poem explores the themes that Ray Bradbury uses in his story The Veldt. The theme that it explores is how our technology has become more and more utilized to the point where we don’t notice it anymore. We’ve become separated, and no longer put in the effort. We spend our days watching TV rather than going to explore the world, before its gone. The feeling of time is put on our hands, of how the world is starting to disappear and turn into a technology based universe. The imagery I am trying to create with the lines “I did not mention it to anyone. Indeed, I almost forgot.” is showing how easily we lose track of how much technology lives around us, that sometimes we look right past it. and then again with “We simply had the habit of taking the ways of the world for granted” trying to represent that all this beauty exists right outside our door, yet we never take the ability to go pay a visit to it. I used personification to represent the river, sky and hills running away and leaving. As well as onomatopoeia as “Tok tik” to represent all the elements of time lost, and that we are losing. The children and that parents in the Veldt have become so forgetful that when they turn off the machines in their house, they will fight and kill for it. I hope my poem hits deep for those realizing how our technology is replacing our earth, and how we need to take a minute to breath, and slow down.