Rukeyser

After reading The Book of the Dead, I felt... I don't know, let down?

I thought about the relationship between myself (the reader), the text, and the author, and I ended up feeling cheated out in a sense. I felt like the relationship was very slim, I felt disconnected from the work. I felt as if I couldn't relate to the emotion of the poem, whereas in "Lilacs..." I could. 

I also felt overloaded with imagery in Rukeyser's work. I began to feel weighed down by image after image, especially in the beginning. I don't get this with Walt. 

The Project...

I've been mulling this over in my head for a while now. I think what I've finally decided to do is another YouTube-ing of Whitman. I want to focus on the words themselves and explore various pronunciations and pauses throughout my reading. I'm still not one hundred percent on what poem I want to use, but I will find something that I can piece together a cohesive video with. I'm also thinking of exploring the various revisions of LoG to really find the words and punctuation that suit my video/audio best. In a way, I truly want to "remix" Whitman to come up with my own re-mastered Whitman poem.