Creative brains come together, re-imagine famous poems
GREATER NOIDA: Cerebrum Club of Bennett University hosted a poetry competition on Wednesday.
The two poems, The Tyger by William Blake and The Daffodils by William Wordsworth are well known and already taught at school, but the participants gave a different meaning to thepoems by using tools like skits and comics.
Thinking out of the box
Four teams participated in the event. The competition consisted of a single task in which the teams had to interpret one poem out of the two given to them and present it in a creative manner. They could draw, sing, dance or perform a skit.
While one team chose to draw out a comic strip to present their version of the Daffodils, another team represented the same poem by a skit involving a Nazi general. Another team choose to explain The Tyger with a series of diagrams, while the fourth team presented the poem through each member’s difference in interpretations.
The participants were judged based on the originality of their ideas, the creativeness and punctuality.
Organizers had high hopes
Taru Medha, a second-year mass communication student and the organizer of the event said, “Poems are open to interpretation, at school we are taught literature with a certain perspective, here we want the participants to give their own interpretations of the poetries. The competition was held so that the participants could enjoy themselves and feel the words written, it was nothing academic.”
One of the judges, Gurbani Singh, another mass communication student said, “Literature has no exact or fixed interpretation, everyone has their own
interpretation, we will accept the answers as long as their perspective is justified and makes sense. The purpose of the event was to ensure that students use their creativity to complete the tasks assigned.”
And the winner is…
The team that presented the skit as their interpretation of their poem won the competition. They interpreted the poem The Daffodils as a story of a Nazi general wo slits the throats of Jews.
Nandana Varshney, a third-year B.Tech student said, “ We have a very important project submission tomorrow but we wanted to do something fun in the evening and so here we are.
Neeraj, another third-year student said, “We wanted to give it a dark theme, and thus we chose to present the poem through a Nazi general who loves killing people.”
Both the organizers and the participants were quite satisfied after this quite, unique yet fun evening.
The two poems, The Tyger by William Blake and The Daffodils by William Wordsworth are well known and already taught at school, but the participants gave a different meaning to the
Thinking out of the box
Four teams participated in the event. The competition consisted of a single task in which the teams had to interpret one poem out of the two given to them and present it in a creative manner. They could draw, sing, dance or perform a skit.
While one team chose to draw out a comic strip to present their version of the Daffodils, another team represented the same poem by a skit involving a Nazi general. Another team choose to explain The Tyger with a series of diagrams, while the fourth team presented the poem through each member’s difference in interpretations.
The participants were judged based on the originality of their ideas, the creativeness and punctuality.
Organizers had high hopes
Taru Medha, a second-year mass communication student and the organizer of the event said, “Poems are open to interpretation, at school we are taught literature with a certain perspective, here we want the participants to give their own interpretations of the poetries. The competition was held so that the participants could enjoy themselves and feel the words written, it was nothing academic.”
One of the judges, Gurbani Singh, another mass communication student said, “Literature has no exact or fixed interpretation, everyone has their own
interpretation, we will accept the answers as long as their perspective is justified and makes sense. The purpose of the event was to ensure that students use their creativity to complete the tasks assigned.”
And the winner is…
The team that presented the skit as their interpretation of their poem won the competition. They interpreted the poem The Daffodils as a story of a Nazi general wo slits the throats of Jews.
Nandana Varshney, a third-year B.Tech student said, “ We have a very important project submission tomorrow but we wanted to do something fun in the evening and so here we are.
Neeraj, another third-year student said, “We wanted to give it a dark theme, and thus we chose to present the poem through a Nazi general who loves killing people.”
Both the organizers and the participants were quite satisfied after this quite, unique yet fun evening.
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