How Poetry is Versatile to Being Expressed in Other Art Forms, such as Cinema in Maya Deren’s Film, Meshes of the Afternoon
SEE ALSO versatility of poetry, poetic inspiration behind the montage, Deren’s Vertical Theory, Film Theory, synopsis and symbolism and Works Cited.
Maya Deren’s film, Meshes of the Afternoon, demonstrated the versatility of poetry to being expressed in other mediums. She employed poetic logic in the films construction by heavily harnessing symbology in the visual, rather than verbal, images and emotionally linking the clips rather than linearly. Poetry by nature is full of abstractions, largely appeals to the senses and is not necessarily grounded in a storyline and is therefore supple to the arability of experimental film. Deren challenged traditional sequential narratives in popular cinema by developing her film ‘vertically,’ therefore demonstrating the poetic elements in practice behind filmatic techniques such as the montage. Film theory provides a framework to evaluate Deren’s film in relation to her literary predecessors and other artistic mediums, such as imagist poetry.
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