I don't really know anything about poetry and the only poets I really know of are Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe. I really liked Poe's 'The Raven' so I had a closer search and look at his poems on the internet.
I'm not really great at understanding poems, so most of the ideas I got from Poe's poems were from the title or from a line out of a poem.
'A Dream Within A Dream' - Dreams are always an endless supply of images and unique ideas, and anything can happen in them, so the concept of a dream within a dream just seemed really cool and something I could work with. It's something you could just go crazy with because dreams often don't make sense so I thought it could be a good opportunity to really experiment with different images and sounds.
'The Conqueror worm' - There's a section from this poem that created an image in mind of people, walking around but like they're held up with strings. Simply passing the days according to someone else's will. Now I know, realistically, that we wouldn't be able to pull off something like this with the limited time we have. But I found the idea interesting and might keep it in mind for an independent project later in life. The extract is:
'Mere puppets they, who come and go
At bidding of vast formless things
That shift the scenery to and fro,
Flapping from out their Condor wings
Invisible Woe!'
'The Raven' - I know this poem is probably overused by now, but I still really enjoy it. (Despite the first time I heard it being from a Simpsons episode). I would love to be able to come up with my own interpretation of this one day, but in a really unique, weird way, but I can't think of anything at the moment. Although i'm pretty sure it would be able to last for 5 minutes just reading out the poem alone.
From reading these poems, and a few more I've realised that we will most probably choose a word or object to film, simply because they would be easier to think of ideas for. However, I would like to attempt to do a film based from one of these poems one day.
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