So now its time to explore your thoughts and write a poem that can be visually developed. Ideas for poems can come from anywhere. You might adapt a story from the news, create a social commentary on a personal issue or provide a vision statement for a character. Included in the piece should be some values statement or personal vision. Here's a few links that might peak your interest. Think of a theme or idea and explore. After searching, report back in the comment window below to give us some possible topics and share what you might say. In order to receive credit include your first name last initial and period (EX. "dominicb1") as the name in your comment below.
This I Believe @ NPR
Poetry Alive Research Site
Salon.com
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from the poetry links through "Poetry Alive" and the "This I Believe" sites, I found that we could use poems about culture, struggles, and topics unique to the United States.
reading through some of the articles found on the websites given, inspire me when i think about my poem that i plan on writing.
reading through all of the given websites...i realized that there are a wide variety of topics to write about such as the impact of the situations around the world and in our society, the misjudgments and misconceptions of people towards others...and such. It is very interesting how even small matters can impact people easily and become motivated - thus it somewhat initiated a start for my poem.
I came up with my idea of how I would like the poem to look visually, and then wrote the poem. The video will represent various dualities. The VO will talk about fact and fiction, arguing which is more appealing, but will serve as an entendre for formalism and realism. The entire film will be split screen and will show the same event happening with realist and formalist editing on either sides of the frame. The realist shots will be fairly simple, Bt I am having trouble deciding what I can do to show formalist editing.
hmmmm well,
i read some of the articles and they gave me some ideas of what to write aboutin terms of real life events and all.
but, im planning to keep the poem to my personal interests after seeing that basketball poem on the poetry section of student projects.
i already jotted down some lines but it is going alone smoothly.
after reading the essay "In Praise of The 'Wobblies,'" i really related to it and i think i want to focus the subject of my project on how difficult and confusing making a decision can be. Whether you must decided between coke or pepsi, R&B or punk rock, or even the life of one person of the other.
i went to the page of Poetry Alive and read some poems and the one that caught my attention right away was "Dark blood" and i think that something we can base our poems on, is our cultural a background and any conflicts we might be experiencing
well immediately i knew what i wanted to write my poem about, and i worte the poem the same day you assinged the video poem. The problem is, i dont know how i can get video footage relating too my poem. i really wanted to focus on issues going on where im from, palestine. so there fore i wrote the poem but am confused of the shots. yeaaaaaaaaa boy!
reading some of the articles I realized that there are alot of things that you can write peorty on and it gave me ideas on the poems i can choose
After looking through some of the sites given, I decided to focus my poem on one of my interests--music (since I have played the piano for over 9 1/2 years). Now the poem isn't entirely about how music is with me, but more on how it has been part of history and a part of everybody. Although my thoughts and love for the subject will guide the overall flow. Think about it, every culture way back when had some form of music; in a way it's a "universal language." The poem writing is going well, and isn't turniing out to be a 'feature lengthed film' like it usually is.
i read through some of the stories and the one about the medic was interesting. it kinds gave me the idea of possibly doing something political and showing the different sides of the war. i know i want to do this video in black and white because black and whit usually has more effect on the viewer.
As i pondered around these sites i was but to view that the poem is a little myth of mans capcity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing to see, it is rather, a light by which we may see, and what we see is life. It is difucult to pick a poem anor a song for it wil be difficult to bring out the true essence of the poem, or song. There are many topics that are within the poem and song..yet to truly understand the work is what we need to do first...and the next step is to bring it out in a video that not only interpets its true meaning but shed's some light and knowledge on the viewers.
I was thinking of one of the things ou always see o read about and thought to write about racism every where you go there is racism in somebody so i chose this topic.. What helped me was actualy watching the movie crash whatgot me thinking about this topic.
if you're not big into poetry, pick a song that could be about a variety of topics. if you want to right about the war, the poem doesn't have to have the word "war" in it. stick to the things you feel most comfortable writing about and things you know. the "this i believe" site ad some good bases for original poems.
I made a poem called "The Drive Thru" which talks about a Drive Thru and how annoying it can be and how angry people can get with the Drive Thru people.
Instead of a poem, I chose a song that I can use the lyrics from. "I am, What I am" by The Jonas Brothers, but I changed a few words around so it fits more to who I am.
My poem was written by me about Love and Hate and how we could always say love and not Hate because it's t strong of phrase, but so is Love. and ya.
My poem is about my life and what I am going through with my friends and family. Some good and some bad. No preticular problem, just in general. It's how I see life, through my eyes at this point in time.
My poem is about my life and what I am going through with my friends and family. Some good and some bad. No preticular problem, just in general. It's how I see life, through my eyes at this point in time.
Irt only took me a little while to come up with what i wanted to do my poem on. For my poem, I am doing the lyrics to WEASEL STOMPING DAY. To learn more about this fasinating holiday go here, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOIVOEmJK28
I'm doing this song because I feel I can make it funny with out the gore/guts. Even though the whole song is about gore/guts, I still think I can make it work.
When I went to the Salon website, I searched for Peoms. It gave me links to various sites that talked about poetry. If I were looking for a poem to do, I think this would be a great way to start because not only do you get a great poem to use, you also have an analysis of the poem that you can use to brainstorm some of your "dream shots" for your video. However for my prject I'm going to be using a poem written by my sister.
When I was going though this site I found many good and interestig poems. i not only found poems but also found some ideas on other poems that I could use.
I wanted to do a tupac shakur poem because he has some of the best figurative language so i'm thinking i'm going to do the poem "And 2morow" the reason is because it all ryhmes and it hides certain morals behind the language.
I went through a series of poetry sites and had a number of interesting poems I liked (e.e.cummings & Theodore Roethke) -- their work is sometimes very literally visual and would be good for this project.
But I actually ended up being quickly taken in by Thom Yorke when I remember FITTER HAPPIER from an old Radiohead album (woo!). It is a sort of laundry list that describes what people would like to experience in life. What's more, the audio aspects of the song FITTER HAPPIER are very unique and I'd like to replicate that in my project. You should check it out for yourselves. ;o)
Radiohead songs are of course typical experimental-video material, so I imagine that my project would be coming up against a lot of existing brilliant attempts to interpret their songs! It'll be fun.
I got my poem from the web site "Poem Hunter.com" My poem is very metaphorical and reflects the hard times on a persons life. I think it will be a challenge for me to make a video from this poem.
I got my poem from the web site "Poem Hunter.com" My poem is very metaphorical and reflects the hard times on a persons life. I think it will be a challenge for me to make a video from this poem.
so, here's my poem that I am doin'.
I know what I'm gonna do.
Good Times Bad Times
(Bonham/Jones/Page)
"In the days of my youth, I was told what it means to be a man,
Now I've reached that age, I've tried to do all those things the best I can.
No matter how I try, I find my way into the same old jam.
*Good Times, Bad Times, you know I had my share;
When my woman left home for a brown eyed man,
Well, I still don't seem to care.
Sixteen, I fell in love with a girl as sweet as could be,
Only took a couple of days 'til she was rid of me.
She swore that she would be all mine and love me till the end,
But when I whispered in her ear, I lost another friend, oooh.
* Chorus
I know what it means to be alone, I sure do wish I was at home.
I don't care what the neighbors say, I'm gonna love you each and every day.
You can feel the beat within my heart.
Realize, sweet babe, we ain't ever gonna part."
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i was rather interested in the "This I believe" site, and read a few of the essays.
well, i went ahead and wrote my own piece..
its rather weird in nature:(excerpt)
All you really are
Is condensed water vapor
Yet you capture our imagination
Set forth unknown machinations
my poem is about the importance of my friends and family to me. and how everyone of them is special in their own significant way.
i just found a couple of interesting lines in a song.. im going to try and integrate them:
im not your lover
im not your friend
i am something that you will never comprehend
yeah...
The ideas i came up with were a some what heartfelt u alot of hip hop eel to it its mainly about the struggle of becoming a talented hip hop artist and surviving all the hated and back stabing.
i think a good and popular topic to talk about is life.. it gives an insight in other peoples lives and what the're going through. its also good to let out these types of emotions, then keeping them in, like theropy in a way.
My topic is pretty general. In a sense, some parts can be classified as a manifesto, given that some points are political in nature. It has something to do with our current national situation, but flows into personal subjects like relationships and feelings of inferiority due to age.
the poem that i am using are the lyrics from a song called "i feel so" by boxcar racer i chose this writing because i like hows hes saying that he can change the way people act, but in realiy you cant, and cuz a like the band.
my poemis about a boy and soccer..
When i was looking throught some websites, some of the poems i saw seemed interesting.i have a poem in mind for this project
reading through all this articles i came with some ideas that situations create differents thoughts of what matter in this whole life, and culture expirience.
I wrote two poems. one was funny and the other one is kind of sad. But the thing is that i had no idea on how im gonna make it into a video. so i just looked for lyrics and i found "Your letter" by 112. Before i started writing my 2 comlumn scripts, i searched on the internet if they had a video for the song. They did. i watched it to make sure that none of my shot would be the same as theirs, and also to get some ideas for my shots. =]
Through your eyes
maybe its better that I see it through your eyes
and maybe it woud make things simpler if I played along with lies
so lets play a game, lets play the "friends" game
because you and me both know you havent been acting the same
my souls stayed strong but my mind is weak
and now when I see you, it gets hard to speak
I have to do something to keep my smile
and we both know we havent seen that in awhile
it hurts to admit, but I see I've lost a friend
so maybe its better that you see it through my eyes in the end
my poem is about a child and his grandfather and this poem is nice but its wierd...
Some of the articles I read were very interesting, and gave me a few ideas on what I plan on writing for my poem.
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