Poetry in Pop-Culture

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxFPc3Q_Lh4

If you look up on YouTube Dead Poets Society Part 2, you’ll find that this is a movie based on poetry. In this part of the movie, a student recites the poem written by Robert Herrick “To the Virgins to Make Much of Time.” The student recited this poem in a boring way with no emotion that it does not enhance the poem in any way; instead, it dulls it. Yet, this movie shows that poetry still plays a critical role in our society to the point where filmmakers would even make a movie out of them.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwVZtT9uDNM

In this video, the students created a video based on Emily Dickenson’s poem, “Because Death Could Not Stop for Me.” The students were very creative in their way of making the poem come to life. However, they way they portrayed it destroys the meaning of the poem. This video is more of a fun video to entertain rather than educate, but it was able to grab a hold of the audiences’ attention making them realize that poetry is not all the same - it is in the way you interpret it.