IDENTITY/POEM VIDEO | #1
My friend/roommate, Desiree, wanted help with a film she's working on about identity and asked me to help out and make a poem for it.
While originally thinking of videos with poems/narratives these are what came to mind:
I liked the intonation in this piece and looked at the lyrics. Been looking more a metre and the syllables in poems and this piece uses mostly 7 syllables per line. Interesting how syllables have an important role in the rhythm of pieces.
And I liked the tone in these two videos:
We got together and discussed the ideas and imagery and inspirations she had and i also added my input and suggestion on what she could also use as sources.
As we went through them, there was a constant re-occurance of water as a theme and so I thought this would be a good standing off point as I showed Desiree The Ship of Theseus and also Heraclitus’s Panta Rhei theory.
I wanted to allude to Greek Gods as she was currently looking at that subject for her dissertation and also it relates to the mysticism around the language used in Mystery of Love and the story of Narcissus, etc.
Also thought about planets and astrology.
Desiree was looking at the Bloom video by Troye Sivan and I mentioned how its almost clear imagery is used inspired by Robert Mapplethorpe, so I thought it would be interesting to look into some photographers to give me a stronger image; these included august sander, and nan goldin.
Emily Dickinson -
lived much of her life in isolation. Considered an eccentric by locals, she developed a penchant for white clothing'
'often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation'
'Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends'
The extensive use of dashes and unconventional capitalization in Dickinson's manuscripts, and the idiosyncratic vocabulary and imagery, combine to create a body of work that is "far more various in its styles and forms than is commonly supposed". Dickinson avoids pentameter, opting more generally for trimeter, tetrameter and, less often, dimeter. Sometimes her use of these meters is regular, but oftentimes it is irregular. The regular form that she most often employs is the ballad stanza, a traditional form that is divided into quatrains, using tetrameter for the first and third lines and trimeter for the second and fourth, while rhyming the second and fourth lines (ABCB). Though Dickinson often uses perfect rhymes for lines two and four, she also makes frequent use of slant rhyme.[146] In some of her poems, she varies the meter from the traditional ballad stanza by using trimeter for lines one, two and four, while only using tetrameter for line three.
Dickinson's poetry frequently uses humor, puns, irony and satire.
Flowers and gardens: Farr notes that Dickinson's "poems and letters almost wholly concern flowers" and that allusions to gardens often refer to an "imaginative realm ... wherein flowers [are] often emblems for actions and emotions". She associates some flowers, like gentians and anemones, with youth and humility; others with prudence and insight.
Dickinson's poems reflect her "early and lifelong fascination" with illness, dying and death; crucifixion, drowning, hanging, suffocation, freezing, premature burial, shooting, stabbing and guillotinage.
Other Literary inspirations:
SYLVIA PLATH
ROMANTICISM
SAPPHO
beat gen?
Ezra Pound
Notes from first meeting on visuals (to help me get inspiration for where to go with the poem):
disco ball??
aspect ratioooooo
shots of marble statues
flowers
slime, gel, glossy,
ophelia? olympia?
flower dictionary book
chariots
exclamation marks, italics, capitalised
SOUND - river flowing.... panta rhei
mirrors, identity, time, future & present,??, to be rather than who you are,
colours,
ship of theseus -- plato & heraclitus
'If it is then supposed that each of the removed pieces were stored in a warehouse, and after the century, technology developed to cure their rotting and enabled them to be put back together to make a ship, then the question is if this "reconstructed" ship is still the original ship. And if so, then the question also regards the restored ship in the harbour still being the original ship as well'
FIRST THINGS I WROTE DOWN:
REFRAIN?
Look into the silver screen
Tell me, do they love you?
to be somebody
its a pain that they see me
oh - to be perceived
oh - how daring to be
1800 poems cant cure you. or maybe it can
if the ship keeps sailing how much can it change??????????? idk and still be the same?
silver storm
silver spoon
betrayed / betrayal
do I,
terrify?
dying going to the sky but sink to flower beds??????
have to die to be reborn
drowning in his self image
the soul is considered the 'driver' of the body... is there only one driver in this body
While originally thinking of videos with poems/narratives these are what came to mind:
I liked the intonation in this piece and looked at the lyrics. Been looking more a metre and the syllables in poems and this piece uses mostly 7 syllables per line. Interesting how syllables have an important role in the rhythm of pieces.
And I liked the tone in these two videos:
We got together and discussed the ideas and imagery and inspirations she had and i also added my input and suggestion on what she could also use as sources.
As we went through them, there was a constant re-occurance of water as a theme and so I thought this would be a good standing off point as I showed Desiree The Ship of Theseus and also Heraclitus’s Panta Rhei theory.
I wanted to allude to Greek Gods as she was currently looking at that subject for her dissertation and also it relates to the mysticism around the language used in Mystery of Love and the story of Narcissus, etc.
Also thought about planets and astrology.
Desiree was looking at the Bloom video by Troye Sivan and I mentioned how its almost clear imagery is used inspired by Robert Mapplethorpe, so I thought it would be interesting to look into some photographers to give me a stronger image; these included august sander, and nan goldin.
performance (1970) a lot about identity.
Emily Dickinson -
lived much of her life in isolation. Considered an eccentric by locals, she developed a penchant for white clothing'
'often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation'
'Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends'
The extensive use of dashes and unconventional capitalization in Dickinson's manuscripts, and the idiosyncratic vocabulary and imagery, combine to create a body of work that is "far more various in its styles and forms than is commonly supposed". Dickinson avoids pentameter, opting more generally for trimeter, tetrameter and, less often, dimeter. Sometimes her use of these meters is regular, but oftentimes it is irregular. The regular form that she most often employs is the ballad stanza, a traditional form that is divided into quatrains, using tetrameter for the first and third lines and trimeter for the second and fourth, while rhyming the second and fourth lines (ABCB). Though Dickinson often uses perfect rhymes for lines two and four, she also makes frequent use of slant rhyme.[146] In some of her poems, she varies the meter from the traditional ballad stanza by using trimeter for lines one, two and four, while only using tetrameter for line three.
Dickinson's poetry frequently uses humor, puns, irony and satire.
Flowers and gardens: Farr notes that Dickinson's "poems and letters almost wholly concern flowers" and that allusions to gardens often refer to an "imaginative realm ... wherein flowers [are] often emblems for actions and emotions". She associates some flowers, like gentians and anemones, with youth and humility; others with prudence and insight.
Dickinson's poems reflect her "early and lifelong fascination" with illness, dying and death; crucifixion, drowning, hanging, suffocation, freezing, premature burial, shooting, stabbing and guillotinage.
Other Literary inspirations:
SYLVIA PLATH
ROMANTICISM
SAPPHO
beat gen?
Ezra Pound
Notes from first meeting on visuals (to help me get inspiration for where to go with the poem):
disco ball??
aspect ratioooooo
shots of marble statues
flowers
slime, gel, glossy,
ophelia? olympia?
flower dictionary book
chariots
exclamation marks, italics, capitalised
SOUND - river flowing.... panta rhei
mirrors, identity, time, future & present,??, to be rather than who you are,
colours,
ship of theseus -- plato & heraclitus
'If it is then supposed that each of the removed pieces were stored in a warehouse, and after the century, technology developed to cure their rotting and enabled them to be put back together to make a ship, then the question is if this "reconstructed" ship is still the original ship. And if so, then the question also regards the restored ship in the harbour still being the original ship as well'
FIRST THINGS I WROTE DOWN:
REFRAIN?
Look into the silver screen
Tell me, do they love you?
to be somebody
its a pain that they see me
oh - to be perceived
oh - how daring to be
1800 poems cant cure you. or maybe it can
if the ship keeps sailing how much can it change??????????? idk and still be the same?
silver storm
silver spoon
betrayed / betrayal
do I,
terrify?
dying going to the sky but sink to flower beds??????
have to die to be reborn
drowning in his self image
the soul is considered the 'driver' of the body... is there only one driver in this body
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