Some sacrilege: done well, I see similarities between the commercial advertising art form and the poetic art form. The economy of visuals is comparable to a poem’s economy of words, the crystallization of the message, the careful attention to detail, etc.
More sacrilege: I can imagine Yeats’ “Vacillation IV” transposed into a 30-second Starbucks commercial. Forgive me.
Billy Collins has had his poetry animated with good success:
https://www.ted.com/talks/billy_coll...caught_in_time
And there is the poet David Whyte who delivers incredibly powerful seminars and presentations to corporations that infuse poetic energy into corporate culture….
But this conversation has digressed. Nicely. I’m surprised. Thank you Marilyn.
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