I must say that I did not enjoy these videos at all. They are definately not my style. They are too dark and monotone. I am not an auditory learner so it was difficult to remain focused and follow to gain an understanding of the message of the poem. I prefers pictures with music to gain insight about a message or to read a piece of literature and analyze it. The song with the documentary pictures in honor of Abraham Lincoln was much more my style than the Whitman poem/video. You can find that documentary/song at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRVfXBjoT-g&feature=fvw.
On that note, what I did take from it was that there was a common theme of death throughout all three. In the Raven by Edgar Allen Poe, he used an end rhyme that contained many repetitive rhyming sounds throughout the poem. Words that rhymed at the end of lines at the beginning of the poem would rhyme again repeatedly in the middle and again at the end of the poem. Some examples of words that he did this with are door, more, Lenore, explore, your, sure, before, store, floor, implore, and adore. I prefer the Fireside poets style where there are many different end rhymes and not much repetition of these sounds. The words "Never more" and "door" were repeated many times for effect but I find this to be irritating. The message of the poem seems to get lost in the wordiness and the play on words with the repetitive ing, en, er, and ore sounds.
The Dickenson video drove me crazy to watch because the woman's lips didn't move with the words which was extremely distracting to me. This was annoying to watch, listen to and follow. What I gained from it was the death carriage stopped for her and slowly drove through town passing things that she maybe didn't take the time to notice before.
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Yes, death is a common theme among these videos. Also, hearing the poems probably made you more aware of the gloomy sound that the repetition of vowels creates.
ReplyDeleteVicki, I understand why you don't like Emily Dickinson, she's definitely not an upbeat poet, she's never writing poems in a delightful tone, always about the "dark side" of life. I often wonder what made her write about the things she did, she seems to have been a depressed person, I guess only if they had psychologists back then maybe she wouldn't of been the way she was.
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