After choosing what poem I was going to do, I decided to start annotating the poem to see if it would help me come up with some ideas.
Here is what I found through analysing the poem:
After reading the poem there was definitely something eerie
about it, mainly because I read it as if it was a journey of a soldier dying.
There were certain lines that caught my eye:
- ‘Aqueous like floating rays of amber light’ –
reminded me of orbs
- ‘Queer blots of colour: purple, scarlet, green’
– like the person is blinking and seeing the different colours each time
- ‘But death replied: ‘I choose him.’ – I imagined
‘death’ in this part as a character, like the grim reaper taking his next
victim
Maybe it was the way I was reading the poem, but the lines
about ‘amber lights’ and ‘death’ came across quite paranormal to me. I really
like the paranormal feel I was getting from this poem and would like to include
it to my film, to add some creepiness.
There were also sections of the poem where I felt the person
was in and out of reality/consciousness.
- From ‘He
drowsed and was aware of silence heaped’ to ‘Round him, unshaken as the steadfast walls:’ he/she is awake and in
reality.
- From ‘Aqueous
like floating rays of amber light’ to ‘his
groping dreams with grinding claws and fangs’, He/she is dreaming or we’re
in his/her imagination.
- From ‘But
someone was beside him; rouse him; you may save him yet’ to ‘Then, far away, the thudding of the guns’,
He/she goes back into reality.
Overall I didn’t realise how many ideas I would get just by
analysing the poem. I have definitely found some useful information and will
use some of it towards my film. I haven’t fully decided whether the person
dying is going to male or female yet, hopefully after some more research I will
make a decision.
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