This project was inspired by my own personal struggles. Art has helped me work through many hardships in my life, and it was a welcome challenge to use HTML and CSS to create a visual poem. Admittedly, I became a little embarrassed about how dramatic this work is, but embarrasment isn't real, and my feelings towards this situation are and were. I settled on this topic because I had nothing else in mind that I felt strongly or passionate about that hadn't already been done.

The biggest thing this helped me understand as I worked on this project was positioning with flexbox and grids. I didn't quite understand how to effectively use them prior, but I've found that they're very helpful particularly with poems and poems formatting.

ChatGPT was a big help throughout my project. There are many terms to center content that actually refer to very specific items and are only used in certain contexts, so it's nice to have a tool that can remind me which is which when I get them mixed up.

All images used are either my own or available from Creative Commons.