I’m having a hard time selecting a poem to explore through digital essay. We did something similar to this in senior year, but with Macbeth and in groups of 4. It took a really long time to complete that assignment, and while I wasn’t the one responsible for the technological aspects of the project, it seemed incredibly complicated. I’m glad that Luke, the messiah of all things digital, is coming in tomorrow to help us figure it out.
As of now, I think that the poem I am considering more than any others we’ve studied or I’ve come upon is Whitman’s “Native Moments”. For whatever reason, it has always resonated with me. I think I need to keep searching though, and will try to have a better idea of what Originally, the concept of choosing a song appealed to me. I think my appreciation of poetry has been colored by a bad experience with T.S. Eliot’s epic “The Wasteland”, so I was less than thrilled when I realized our final assignment focused on this literary style. Thus, the knee jerk reaction to scan my ipod first-I was thinking maybe CocoRosie or Neil Young. However, I think it would be more of a challenge to try and really get into a poem, derive its essence, and turn it into something than to go through the motions with something I already love.
I’m not sure of the poem yet because I think it’s important to think of my thesis first, so I don’t want to state anything definitively. If I figure anything out today, I’ll post again. Otherwise, I’ll start focusing on an initial idea, if only to watch it evolve.
