部分合成整體（最素樸的一層）
核心畫面本身，不帶任何創作意味：只是陳述某個整體由哪些部分構成。
make up, form (a whole) · verb · B2
If a number of things or people compose something, they join together to form it. Here the parts are the subject, and the whole thing comes after the verb.
構成；組成
核心畫面
Scattered pieces on a table, and a hand putting them together so they make one thing. Not just piling them up — placing each piece where it belongs, until separate parts become a single whole. Every use of compose is that hand: arranging parts into a whole that holds together.
桌上散著一些零件，一隻手把它們擺在一起，讓它們變成一個東西。不是隨便堆起來——是每一片都放到它該在的位置，直到分開的…更多收起
桌上散著一些零件，一隻手把它們擺在一起，讓它們變成一個東西。不是隨便堆起來——是每一片都放到它該在的位置，直到分開的部分合成一個整體。compose 所有的用法都是這隻手：把零件安排成一個站得住的整體。差別只在那些零件是什麼——是物質、是音符、是字、是你自己散掉的情緒。Four branches
創作：把音符和字擺成作品
同一隻手，這次擺的零件是音符和字：安排它們的先後與位置，讓它們合成一首曲、一封信。
write music · verb · B2
To write a piece of music.
作曲
把自己重新擺回原位
零件這次是你自己：情緒激動時像整個人散掉了，compose 就是把散掉的部分一片片收回、擺回原本的位置。
compose yourself · verb · B2
Used in "compose yourself" to mean to try hard to become calm again after you have felt very angry, upset, or excited.
使自己平靜下來
構圖：安排畫面裡的東西
零件變成畫面中的視覺元素：把人、物、光擺在框裡的位置上，讓整張圖成立。
arrange (a photo or scene) · verb · B2
To arrange the parts of a photograph, painting, or scene so that the finished picture has the effect you want.
構圖
原始詞典資料9 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
composeverb/kəmˈpəʊz/
- 1
To make something by merging parts.
- The editor composed a historical journal from many individual letters.
- December 22 1678, Thomas Sprat, A Sermon Preached before the King at White-Hall Zeal ought to be composed of the highest degrees of all pious affection.
- 2
To make up the whole; to constitute.
- A church is composed of its members.
- A few useful things […] compose their intellectual possessions.
- 3
To comprise.
- 4
To construct by mental labor; to think up; particularly, to produce or create a literary or musical work.
- The orator composed his speech over the week prior.
- Nine numbered symphonies, including the Fifth, were composed by Beethoven.
- 5
To calm; to free from agitation.
- Try to compose your thoughts.
- The defendant couldn't compose herself and was found in contempt.
- 6
To arrange the elements of a photograph or other picture.
- 7
To settle (an argument, dispute etc.); to come to a settlement.
- By trying his best to compose matters with the mullahs, he had sincerely shown that he did not seek a violent collision […]
- 8
To arrange in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition.
- In a peaceful grave my corpse compose.
- How in safety best we may / Compose our present evils.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
- 9
datedmediaprintingpublishingTo arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。