This assignment responds to the Visible Poetry Project (https://www.visiblepoetryproject.com/#the-projecty).
"When I read 'I Started Early' by Emily Dickinson I was drawn in by the tension between the speaker and the sea. I wanted to capture this push and pull between the curiosity of the speaker and the seducing qualities of the sea. I also wanted to portray the turn in the poem when the speaker returns to land and chooses safety and familiarity over the excitement of the sea. …Emily Dickinson’s personification of the sea with the ship that has “hempen hands” and assigning the pronoun “He” to the sea and capitalizing it, interested me. I decided to experiment with portraying this poem as an attempt at seduction between two people…Thus, the video portrays a woman coming into a bar alone, having an interest in a man who approaches her, who she is overcome with curiosity for, but who she eventually leaves for the comfort and familiarity of solitude."