Well I am still contemplating what poem I will use for my final paper, I am stuck between the poem I chose for my response paper, I Remember by Brainard, and the new one we heard in class by Baraka, I thought he was amazing.
That being said if I do end up doing Brainard’s poem I was thinking of making a video of different people saying one of their memories. I would want to have a age difference between them going from young to old or old to young to show how Brainard’s poem signifies historical change. Maybe I will ask them to remember a similar idea or thing so as each of them remember it in a different time, the historical change will be more profound. I’m still not 100% sure.
If I chose Baraka I feel like digitally I can use of the music in his poems because it’s a huge aspect for him, and also photos to depict what he is trying to say. I haven’t chosen a specific poem by him but what I heard in class, I felt his passion about his poems and I want to depict that through pictures. I think I would also make use of video for his poem as well because I just want to do the poem justice with the digital part. As you can see I am pretty lost in what direction I want to take Baraka’s poem, maybe I will just integrate everything in it.