What would be a good poem to do a short movie about?

Question

for school I have to make a short 2-3 minute film about a poem. The poem should be not too long and easy to understand

Answer 1

1. One fine day in the middle of the night,
2. Two dead boys* got up to fight,
3. Back to back they faced each other,
4. Drew their swords and shot each other,

5. One was blind and the other couldn't, see
6. So they chose a dummy for a referee.
7. A blind man went to see fair play,
8. A dumb man went to shout "hooray!"

9. A paralysed donkey passing by,
10. Kicked the blind man in the eye,
11. Knocked him through a nine inch wall,
12. Into a dry ditch and drowned them all,

13. A deaf policeman heard the noise,
14. And came to arrest the two dead boys,
15. If you don't believe this story’s true,
16. Ask the blind man he saw it too!

Answer 2

Does it have to be a famous poem? If not make up your own. If so,

A BIRTHDAY
Christina Rossetti

My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these,
Because my love is come to me.

Raise me a daïs of silk and down;
Hang it with vair and purple dyes;
Carve it in doves and pomegranates,
And peacocks with a hundred eyes;
Work it in gold and silver grapes,
In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.





A Birthday - a poem by Christina Rossetti

Answer 3

Check out Spoon River Anthology by Edger Lee Masters. There are a bunch of poetic monologues from people who passed away; each tells a min-story. Easy to convert into a movie.

Answer 4

The Raven- Edgar Allen Poe

Answer 5

The Oyster by Baxter Black. It requires three characters and a restaurant setting. Funny and a good culture shock poem. After all, oysters to coasters are one thing and oysters to cowboys are something entirely different.

Answer 6

Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll

Answer 7

William Blake.

The Tiger

TIGER, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies 5
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart? 10
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand and what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? What dread grasp 15
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears,
And water'd heaven with their tears,
Did He smile His work to see?
Did He who made the lamb make thee?

Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

Answer 8

William SHakespeare - "A lovers complaint"

Answer 9

caged bird

Answer 10

footprints