Hey guys! Probably should have made an effort to get in touch with you all earlier, or stayed after class today, but I definitely forgot which group I was in until I got home and checked. ...oops... (Yeah, I fail at life...sorry!)
Anyway, we are apparently presenting in class next Thursday! Sooo... any plans?
(Also, if anyone wanted to move this to email instead of commenting here, just let me know your email addresses. I just put this in a post cause I didn't know any other way for us to all talk in the same place.)
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Wilting Flowers
Reading through the 9/11 poems, my attention was drawn to "Late, There was an Island"(A Poem Cycle) by Meena Alexander for a few reasons. Mostly, because I felt it shared a common theme with Whitman's poem: nature. Death is an interesting theme in poetry, because it is something that you experience indirectly (I'm pretty sure no one reads a poem and goes "Oh yeah that reminds me of when I died"). You experience death through the loss of something outside yourself, a friend, family member, loved one, etc. I think tying it in to nature (lilacs with Whitman and linden trees for Alexander) helps give a more concrete visual while also serving as a subtle reminder that death is a part of nature.
Monday, April 2, 2012
The More You Learn...
When we were first told of this project expansion, I though of several possible directions. None of them good.
I debated about expanding the "Youtubing Whitman" project, since my first video was quite lackluster due to illness. In my head, I thought it would be fun/ interesting to act out and film a passage from "Leaves of Grass" twice: Once reciting it as written, and once in a modernized version, to give another way of looking at the message Whitman was trying to get across. Then I remembered how technologically inclined I am (not). So that idea got thrown away (and out here into the interspace for anyone who wants to snatch it. Feel free).
Then in class, we started discussing graphic novels. I am actually interested in pursuing a career in the comic arts, so my ears definitely perked at this. Admittedly my current skills limit my ability to produce a full graphic novel, but the idea of incorporating art was still intriguing.
So, after much deliberation, I sort of want to illustrate the relationships between Whitman and his peers (think family tree style), with perhaps some side notes (bullet points and whatnot) with corresponding pictures, just to really get the point across.
From this point, I mostly need to gather up my willpower to actually sit down and research. Once I have the information written down where I can see it all in one place and arrange as I see fit, I don't think it should be too hard. I really just want to show how much writers are a part of each others' life and work, whether it be intentional or not.
SO. Let's see how this works out...
I debated about expanding the "Youtubing Whitman" project, since my first video was quite lackluster due to illness. In my head, I thought it would be fun/ interesting to act out and film a passage from "Leaves of Grass" twice: Once reciting it as written, and once in a modernized version, to give another way of looking at the message Whitman was trying to get across. Then I remembered how technologically inclined I am (not). So that idea got thrown away (and out here into the interspace for anyone who wants to snatch it. Feel free).
Then in class, we started discussing graphic novels. I am actually interested in pursuing a career in the comic arts, so my ears definitely perked at this. Admittedly my current skills limit my ability to produce a full graphic novel, but the idea of incorporating art was still intriguing.
So, after much deliberation, I sort of want to illustrate the relationships between Whitman and his peers (think family tree style), with perhaps some side notes (bullet points and whatnot) with corresponding pictures, just to really get the point across.
From this point, I mostly need to gather up my willpower to actually sit down and research. Once I have the information written down where I can see it all in one place and arrange as I see fit, I don't think it should be too hard. I really just want to show how much writers are a part of each others' life and work, whether it be intentional or not.
SO. Let's see how this works out...
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