As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become. – Jean-Paul Sartre
Respond to each of the following in a well-considered post in your blog.
Limit your selection of detail to a separate poem for each response.
Explain how image and symbol reinforce theme in a poem.
Explain how facts about a writer’s life are relevant to your understanding of a poem.
Explain how a poem can reflect a poet’s personal [...]
This exercise is simple: write a poem about a family member meeting a famous person. All of us have such incidents embedded in family history or folklore: the day Dad shook hands with Ike in France; the time Mom spilled coffee on Elizabeth Taylor in a pizza parlour in San Mateo; the night Aunt Dottie [...]
Take a news article (from your RSS aggregator, for example)
Take some scissors
Print the article
Get a small bag (pencil case, ziplock, lunch bag)
Cut the article into bits, one word per bit.
Put the bits into the bag
Shake gently(the bag, duh!)
Take out each bit one by one and copy conscientiously in the order each bit left the bag
The [...]
Use pencil crayons to draw a picture of your mother’s kitchen.
Put the oven in it, and also something green, and something dead.
Write a poem about your mother’s kitchen.
You are not in this poem, but some female relation – aunt, sister, close friend – must walk into the kitchen during the course of the poem.
Completed poems, [...]
Write a ten-line poem. Find a proverb, adage, familiar phrase, or brainy quote that you have changed in some way as well as five of the following words: cliff, blackberry, needle, cloud, voice, mother, whir, lick.
You have ten minutes.
No rhyming.
P.S.
We will be practising poetry posting permanently. Please create categories in your sidebars to begin sorting [...]
Turn off moderation from your Dashboard==>Options ==>Discussion.
Begin your post with the first line of a poem. Now you go to someone else’s blog and comment the next line. (Meanwhile your post will collect lines for your poem.)
Try to post one line on everyone’s blog.
When you commented on all posts go back to your post [...]
