Eileen Myles’ poem “The Sad Part Is” gives me the feeling of emptiness even though a guy in the Laundromat and household objects are included in the poem. The narrator seems to be alone and functioning everything by herself; not many people are involved in her life. After reading it, I wanted to show the vacant rooms for my digital essay, but that didn’t sound very right for my interpretation of the poem. The ’emptiness’ from the poem does not mean that there is nothing; there are physical objects involved. It is just the narrator who passed through her day without anyone, so I decided to record my regular day from the school to my house with no one in it. I tried my best not to include a single person in my video.
The digital essay somehow does have connection with my paper. At first, I thought the paper and the digital essay had different ideas. After I had formulated my thesis, I saw a connection. In my paper, I wanted to argue that in her poem, Myles used ‘simpleness’ in her language and composed her normal activities to oppose the society’s expectation on a poem. This idea is also applied to my digital essay in which a person is spending his/her ordinary day alone. In addition, I used one part directly from the poem-that is the narrator in the poem doesn’t want to sit at the desk where there is a radiator; she likes to sit near the stove and refrigerator, and under the overhead light.
Hope you enjoy the video. Thank you for watching.
P.S: Please forgive me if you get dizzy. I recorded the video while I was walking, so it is a little shaky.
