The Weary Blues

I love how Cab Calloway was featured in the background as an image for Langston Hughes poem. Also the music was great I absolutely love the piano, the melody was slow and beautiful which went alone with the poems lyrics and flow. I love the line "He made that piano moan with melody" just means he played that piano with all his heart and made sounds come out of the piano that would move anyone. This poem is deep and meaningful describing a man with nothing but his blues and his piano.

Poe, Dickinson, and Whitman Videos

Listening to Christopher Walken read "The Raven" gave me the creeps as he recited more and more of the poem. He really delivered the poem in a way I would believe Poe would have wanted it to be read and received. I have to say I am a chicken so having to listen to this poem and watch Poe's picture get bigger and closer freaked me out just a little. The background music and the bird squawking every now and then did not make it better. I feel if James Earl Jones voiced the Raven in Christopher Walken video it would of been extremely creepy. Either way it was very entertaining and spooky and Christopher Walken did this poem justice.

Ok the Emily Dickinson was interesting. The women in this video seems to be enjoying themselves and having fun making this video. I like how her mouth was not moving in the beginning and how the cardboard Emily laughed and how she responded to her interviewer's questions. I like this video I thought it was informative and funny.

The Walt Whitman video was engaging and creative. I like how the people in the video all seem to be looking for what something and that something seems to be the speaker or what the speaker is talking about. The video started out calm and serene and ended up busy and giving off a feeling of "ready, set, go!" I enjoyed this poem more because of the video.