This Week and Next

Tue: Finish reading Fluorescence and come to class prepared to share your responses to some of the poems. Also, you should write your blog response on the book for Tue.

Remember that we are now meeting in 112 Roosevelt.

Thur: No class; work on your poems for next week

Blog Response for Tue: Because there is no reading assignment for Tue (see syllabus; bring 2 copies of 2 poems) post a poem or two on your blog instead.  

Poetry exercises from last week:

1. write 2 poems "in response" to 2 of the poems in Fluorescence. You can use the language and rearrange/write your own poems, write poems as if in response to the poems in the book, or write continuation poems...it's open to interpretation.

2. do the poetry exericse posted on myemich :



Write a poem that contains one of each of these things:

• a small animal (i.e. tree frog, gecko, etc.)
• a brand name (i.e. Mazola, Hasbro, Taco Bell)
• a synonym for road
• a color
• a date (i.e. February 18)
• the word "scratch"
• somebody's name
• a loud noise

The sequence you use is up to you. 
Do it again using different things so you have 2 versions. See what you get.
 

For This Week

Follow the syllabus for the assignments this week.

We will being with Goldberg et. al. (myemich) essays
and continue with the Poetry Packet (come prepared to share your thoughts on a poem)

Remember to post a blog response to the poetry packet (a few poems specifically or in general using examples from the poems)

**Important:

There seems to be some problem with getting the book, Fluorescence. I am trying to get the story from the bookstore, but in the meantime, I will post a pdf of selections from the book, so that if you don't get a copy this week the reading assignments will be available via emich. You will be responsible to print, read, and bring the pdf to class for the discussion of the book.

on Ted Berrigan

see this for a little more info on Berrigan's Sonnets:

 http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/21670

poetry discussion jan 15

Poetry

Look like: paragraphs, anything you want, triangles, space of the page used in a variety of ways to affect how a poem is read etc…

Structure: shapes, in relation to emotional content; no structure at all (words all over page); stanzas

No punctuation, or it varies

May or not contain words that look or sound like their sounds (Onomatopoeia)

Spacing: line breaks, long or short lines, prose lines(sentences/paragraphs)

Words/language: point of view, speaker voice determines word choice,

Titles (relevance?)

Emotion: aggressive adjectives, description, capitalizing (or not at all), sound (various uses of), alliteration (personification, irony etc)

Concrete (exactly, direct, material, sensory, nouns, descriptive, etc.) vs abstract (interpretation, conceptual)

Senses!!

Sonnet

Short poem

Structure: specific, rhyme (specific scheme shakespeare) or not rhyme, 14 lines, iambic pentameter (Shakespeare; specific # of syllables and stress on every other one);

song

about: love, physical beauty, jealousy, relationships between people and things, hate, time, sex, life/human tendencies

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