Illustrating the narrative
Storyboard and film images which illustrate each line of the poem. Record the poem into your editing program as a voiceover. Edit your images to the narration. Add incidental music or sounds.

You could do a simplified version of this where the participants are provided with the narration and a selection of images which they choose from and edit together.

Imagery
Go through a poem and underline examples of imagery. Find pictures from magazines or books that illustrate this imagery. Copy them onto video or import them into your editing program as still images. Create a 'montage' sequence of these images.

For working with a class, you could try giving each team a different poem at random. Without narration, can the class tell which film is which poem?

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