Assignment: Poetry, Pop Culture, and New Media

For this blog writing, I've embedded a machinima video tribute to Langston Hughes's poem "Suicide's Note." Machinima is an art form in which you can work with video game scenery and characters while inserting your own soundtrack and thereby making your own story. Please watch the video a couple of times and then write 1-2 paragraphs on the effects of this poem being machinima-ized. How does it add or detract to the text's meaning, to your enjoyment of the text? Does the machinima version remain true to the tone of the poem or diverge? How?
Then, please locate a reference to poetry in popular culture: for example, Stewie's quoting of Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night". Explain how the poem enhances this pop culture moment. This part of the blog can be more free-form thinking and writing.

Total: 250-350 words.