Your journals are due today. Please make sure your name is on your journal and turn in after announcements. I will return your journals today by the end of class.
LAB:
TASK ONE: First off, today in class, please read the article at this link about how to create a poem. Then believe it.
Please complete a draft of your slam poem. Use the examples and models I showed you last class. Use imagery to enhance the power of your words!
If you need help or ideas getting started/continuing, check this website: How to Write Slam Poetry (from Power Poetry)
TASK TWO: Read some poems/respond. Choose 3 poems from this site. Note: there are 9 pages of poems. Feel free to choose ones that look interesting to you. Choose the next page # at the bottom of the web page.
In the COMMENT section below for this post, please name the 3 poems and the author of the poems you chose to read.
LAB:
TASK ONE: First off, today in class, please read the article at this link about how to create a poem. Then believe it.
Please complete a draft of your slam poem. Use the examples and models I showed you last class. Use imagery to enhance the power of your words!
If you need help or ideas getting started/continuing, check this website: How to Write Slam Poetry (from Power Poetry)
TASK TWO: Read some poems/respond. Choose 3 poems from this site. Note: there are 9 pages of poems. Feel free to choose ones that look interesting to you. Choose the next page # at the bottom of the web page.
In the COMMENT section below for this post, please name the 3 poems and the author of the poems you chose to read.
- Identify the SPEAKER (who is telling the 'story' or 'speaking' in the poem),
- what is the situation or CONFLICT occurring in the poem? (Hint: look at the title and setting of the poem & consider why the speaker may be speaking and to whom...); and, finally,
- identify 1 example of imagery occurring in the poem: visual, sound, gustatory, kinesthetic/tactile, olfactory, olfactory. (Hint: metaphor, simile, allusion, personification, onomatopoeia, rhyme, alliteration, assonance, consonance, or various uses of diction and figurative language).
If you finish early, spend your time in the lab doing one of the following:
A. If you have work you have not finished, finish it. Turn in late for minimal credit.
B. Write a second or third poem for your portfolio.
C. Read more poems. The more you read, the better at writing poetry you will become. Promise. That's how it's done.
HOMEWORK: None.
6 comments:
The three poems that I just read were Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (by J.R.R Tolkien; summary by your Power Poetry Team), Dreams (by Edgar Allan Poe), and A Lay of the Links (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle).
1) Balances - Nikki Giovanni
- Situation/Conflict: The narrator is enduring a period of loneliness, justifying it as a balance (loneliness/pain for loving whomever the narrator is talking about). The narrator uses examples of other types of balances to make their feelings seem more natural.
- Example of imagery: visual (Ex. "We used to talk all night and do things alone together."
2) To The Kind Reader - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Situation/Conflict: A poet who believes to write more than anyone else takes all types of opinions and critiques of their work very seriously. Praise, or blame, it greatly impacts their mood.
- Example of imagery: sound [rhyme] (Ex. "For the aged, and the youthful, And the vicious, and the truthful."
3) When You See Water - Alice Walker
- Situation/Conflict: The narrator is comparing someone to water and how water is only itself, and is not tied down to anything even if that anything is what made them up. The narrator is probably talking about a situation where a person can be their own person, regardless of how restricted they could be by whatever circumstance.
- Example of imagery: Metaphor (Ex. But actually water is always only itself and does not belong to any of these containers though it creates them. And so it is with you.)
I read The Other Side Of A Mirror by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge. The speaker was the author herself. She's looking into the mirror, seeing her reflection showing her that she was now getting tired of life. "It formed the thorny aureole of hard, unsanctified distress." {Stanza 1, line, 4.} She uses the "thorny aureole" as symbol of her distress. It's painful and it sucks the life out of her.
Another poem I read was You've Got A Friend In Me by Randy Newman. The conflict is that the author is talking to their friend telling them that they're there for them. For example, "And as the years go by, Our friendship will never die.."
The last Poem I read was Pillow by Li-Young Lee The conflict of this poem is that the author feels like she has a home in her personal treasure cove. For example, she says, "There's nothing that hasn't found home there: discarded wings, lost shoes, a broken alphabet."
The first poem I read was Rain by Nikki Giovanni, she was the speaker and the situation she's talking about is rain being a piece of god and an example of imagery is where she states, "rain is god's sperm falling in the receptive woman." The second poem I read was Movement Song by Audre Lorde, she was the speaker and the situation she's talking about is racism and discrimination and an example of imagery in this poem is where she states, "your goodbye is a promise of lightning." The third poem I read was There Is It by Jayne Cortez, she was the speaker and she was speaking on racism and civil rights as well and an example of imagery in this poem is where she states, "the stylized look of submission."
The first poem was Life Cycles by Nikki Giovanni, who I believe was also the speaker or person who told the “story”. The conflict in this poem is feeling like your life has no purpose when going through it’s many cycles. An example of imagery within the text is, “yet eventually sleep
would wrestle her in triumph onto the bed.”
The next poem is Making Love to Concrete by Audre Lorde, who I also believes is the speaker. The conflict in this particular poem is the difficulties and what and what not to do to “make love to concrete.” An example of imagery within the poem is, “a beige Honda leaps the divider
like a steel gazelle inescapable sleek leather boots on the pavement.”
The last poem I chose was, For my Father by Quincy Troupe, told by Quincy himself. The conflict in this poem is the author writing to his father who seems to be passed on, and so the author talks about their times together and how he puts his father in high respects and loves him dearly. An example of imagery is, “way back in africa, the sap running dry crossing from north carolina into georgia, inside grandmother mary's womb.”
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