When a poem is machinima-ized it takes on slightly different properties. On one hand it can help to increase the understanding and meaning behind the poem, especially for someone who wouldn’t understand the poem normally. On the other hand, it may shift the meaning of the poem and cause the viewer to not focus on the poem by itself but reflect more on what they see on the screen and the meaning behind that. No matter what, I feel that a machinima will not be able to encompass the exact feeling and meaning that the author intended because it is using characters and video games that already have their own separate story and connotation, depending on who is viewing it. However, for a lot of young people who are more interested in video games than they are in poetry, a machinima might heighten their interest and help them to understand it a lot better. So it seems that there are pros and cons to using a machinima to represent a poem, ultimately however, it is not the truest form of the poem.
A moment in popular culture that references poetry is when the Simpsons recite the poem “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe. This is acted out by different characters in the show. This reading of the poem helps not only to increase understanding of the poem but also to give it a comical twist. It changes the tone of the poem a bit to accomplish this but it still does a good job of intertwining the literary world and the cartoon world.
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