For this research paper I have decided to base my essay around the poem Light Night by James Schuyler. Atheistically I am very interested in the poem because it revolves the themes of nature and conflict. As for my digital essay I have no idea exactly how I am going to go about it, but I wanted to stage a fight that is heavily choreographed. The reason I feel this would be an appropriate digital essay is because the poem refers greatly to the isolation of particular items and how it creates something, I feel it to be beauty, but the outside disturbance of our surround destroys or alters or experience. This is not going to be a street fight, the friends I have chosen to is also a martial artist so when creating this video the goal will to be make the movement look as “beautiful” as possible.
The general outline for this digital essay will be, a solitary practice that is suddenly interrupted by a nearby martial artist resulting in a fight. At this point my digital essay has the content of the poem present in it, but I feel more research and interpretation of the poem/development of my thesis will be incorporated into the digital essay through the results of the fight and the couple of actions we decide to catch on camera afterwards.
