Daffodils by William Wordsworth

Judging from YouTube, Wordsworth’s “Daffodils” must be one of the most popular poems to make into a video, but none of the versions I’ve seen quite made the cut — until now. Polly Zwolinski is a linguistics student at Kings College, London, planning to write her thesis on film poetry, and if this video is any indication, she really grasps what makes a good filmpoem work. Not only is the juxtaposition of film and text images nicely oblique and suggestive, but by transposing such a quintessentially pastoral poem to the urban sphere, Zwolinski has a good chance of expanding its audience.

2 Comments

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    Nic S. 20 February, 2014

    Wow! Love this – works on many levels. Very nice find.

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    mikey 21 February, 2014

    That worked. Beautiful reading

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