Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Raye's Story


The poem inspiring my animation is “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost. I want to emphasize the decision and the religious ideas I take from the poem. I want to have a character that the viewer is watching make the decision and then at the end watch disappear down “the road not taken.”

“The Road Not Taken” By Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth

Then took the other, just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black
Oh, I marked the first for another day
Yet knowing how way leads to way
I doubted if I should ever come back

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference

reference images

Michelangelo's "Prisoners"
Matisse figure abstractions/stylization
inspiration for closing scene, Signorelli's "Resurrection of the Flesh"