Proposal and second and primary research for my chosen poem

For my chosen poem, 'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Goodnight' I plan on centering the poem around two big themes in the poem, space, day and night, old age and death.

My primary research indicates that people usually prefer not having to read, this is advantageous given that my project is in video form. This is backed up by 80% of people preferring to see poems presented as an edited, visually pleasing video.

My secondary research indicates that there is a large market for audible poetry due to sites like audible and youtube being host for a large range of highly rated poetry. There are multitudes of videos on youtube of poetry, usually 'slam' poetry made in to videos with a corresponding animation or lyrics.

Proposal:

I plan to start out my video with footage of a young man with the age rising slowly as the poem goes on to match the stanzas of people increasing in age slowly.

I want to cater my poem to multiple audiences due to the fact that the poem involves most age groups as the author mentions young and old men. This should make a final product that multiple age groups are able to relate to. This video will cater to social classes A to C1 due to the poem being nonspecific about the incomes or social classes of the people he writes about.

I expect that my audience will enjoy the video as it is easy to understand and adds a layer to the poem. This essentially does part of the thinking for the audience but I don't think it is necessarily a bad thing to explain a piece of poetry to someone who doesn't understand it.

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