Since the beginning of this class, we have read a lot of poetry, and I mean A LOT of it. And whenever we read any poem, I have always wondered if all the poems that we read were converted into movies, how would that go? Does anyone ever get a movie playing in their head whether it is funny or serious whenever we read something in class? Well I do, and I just thought I should share some of my movie ideas.
Upon a Spider catching a Fly
This is what I pictured throughout the poem, a little tiny fly crying his eyes out because he is stuck in a spider web, and a spider trying to calm the fly down sitting right next to the fly, and for some reason, I always imagined the spider drinking coffee (Yes weird I know). And then out of no where, I pictured a giant cage falling on top of the fly and the spider and squishing them both (SAD :’[ ) and having the magical music playing in the background.
The Wasteland
For this one, I pictured one person who can like teleport to different places, and he is in his room playing with his teleportation skills, and he like accidently ends up in all the different narrations that we see in The Wasteland. And I kind of made it like Dante’s Inferno where Dante learns various lessons when he passes through Hell. So our teleporter learns different lessons from all the different narrators.
Finally Lunch Poems
My last movie is just a guy in the picture, and he is just sitting there on a bench in Central Park in Manhattan, and everything that he sees, he writes down. But as soon as he writes one thought, he gets a vision (like you know those crazy future/past vision people) and the visions are all the deep thinking ideas that most people would not want to think about. And everything that does not make sense in the poem is like his vision so nobody except for him understands it.
Yes I am very weird and I don’t know how I came up with all these ideas. I hope you like it though and leave me some comments.
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That is totally interesting and cool. I wouldn't say that I get little mini movies playing in my head, but I definitely try to picture what I'm reading in my head, I think it is a natural thing that most people do without even thinking about it.
It is only natural for our imagination to start painting pictures in our minds as we feed it information from what we are reading. Our mind picks out the visual ques and separates them from the text to paint a picture, it then at the same time separates and projects the sound ques, so we now have this picture "playing" in our head.
How ever for me, if I were to say they were mini movies playing in my head, they are always silent movies, and then the talking is like reading subtitles, it is just what is on the page and it never is "heard" in my mini movie in my head, the characters or picture still reacts but I never hear it, unless it is a narrator, then it is either a girl voice or a boy voice, I never know why I hear one or the other but it doesn't become clear usually until I have been reading for a little while.
So I shouldn't say that I never hear anything when I read, because I do, but often if it is a story in a story, or just a short story, the characters mouths move and I fill in the blanks so to speak, with what I am reading, especially if I am imagining a conversation going on that is not really there. Like with the fly and the spider, I like to think that a lot more was said than what was written and what I am reading is just the skeleton of their conversation.
Wow, I have never thought of poems in that way. Poems do paint pictures in my head while I am reading them, but I don't think I have ever incorporated action into my thoughts of poems.
I think that's kinda funny, but interesting also, and I have a feeling that the next time I read a poem I am going to remember what you posted and imagine my own little movie in my head!
I really enjoyed the part in "Upon a Spider Catching a Fly" when you add "magical music playing in the background." So I admit, I love trying to make my own images of a book or poem. They may not always necessarily be movies, but it's pretty cool how you were able to come up with such ideas.
My favorite is "The Waste Land" where you talk about teleportation because now that's how I can think of T.S. Eliot. How else could he come up with such an outline for the poem?
For me, I want think about movies being made based on the poet. Following a poet and see where he gets his ideas for one of his poems. You sort of mention it in "Lunch Poems" where it is a man sitting in Manhattan, but I also want to see Edward Taylor in "Upon a Spider Catching a Fly." I want to see how he came up with the format of his poem and his ideas.
Lastly, I like thinking about who would play these characters? Will Smith? John Cho? John Cusack? Yah, John Cusack could probably fit into one of those roles!
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