Event Title
Getting a Feel for Spanish Poetry Through Personal Composition
Location
CSU
Student's Major
World Languages and Cultures
Student's College
Arts and Humanities
Mentor's Name
Kimberly Contag
Mentor's Department
World Languages and Cultures
Mentor's College
Arts and Humanities
Description
My piece focuses on a poem written by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer entitled Rima XXI. It poses the question, "What is poetry?" By using digitalized video, music, and literature in the form of narration and text, I attempt to answer that question. I analyze Becquer's work with a supplemental personal composition of what poetry means to me; how it affected the literature of decades ago; how it continues to live today. I examine, through my work, the way in which poetry, once a popular means of expression, continues to thrive today in a life all its own. I bring forth my own interests in writing and attempt to create, both visually and orally, a pulse in literature through a language that is not native to me. I build a network of bridges between the poetry of today and long ago, how it unites people over great distances, and how it comes from my perspective to you, the audience. The challenges I confront through this undergraduate resource project go beyond the limitations of lacking fluency in a language not my own. It goes deeper to analyze and portray the sensation that the poet was trying to offer his readers. Utilizing images such as photos, videos, and pictures in conglomeration with personally composed and recorded music and sound tracks, I attempt to shed light on literature of the past.
Getting a Feel for Spanish Poetry Through Personal Composition
CSU
My piece focuses on a poem written by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer entitled Rima XXI. It poses the question, "What is poetry?" By using digitalized video, music, and literature in the form of narration and text, I attempt to answer that question. I analyze Becquer's work with a supplemental personal composition of what poetry means to me; how it affected the literature of decades ago; how it continues to live today. I examine, through my work, the way in which poetry, once a popular means of expression, continues to thrive today in a life all its own. I bring forth my own interests in writing and attempt to create, both visually and orally, a pulse in literature through a language that is not native to me. I build a network of bridges between the poetry of today and long ago, how it unites people over great distances, and how it comes from my perspective to you, the audience. The challenges I confront through this undergraduate resource project go beyond the limitations of lacking fluency in a language not my own. It goes deeper to analyze and portray the sensation that the poet was trying to offer his readers. Utilizing images such as photos, videos, and pictures in conglomeration with personally composed and recorded music and sound tracks, I attempt to shed light on literature of the past.
