Final+Poetry+Project

FINAL POETRY PROJECT MUST BE SHARED. THIS IS A PROJECT, NOT A CLOSED WRITING ASSIGNMENT POST COMPLETED WRITING PROJECTS TO THIS PAGE, A DISCUSSION TAB, OR ON YOUR SPECIFIC PERIOD'S WIKI- PAGE. VIDEOS CAN BE LINKED; ARTWORK SUBMITTED IN CLASS.

1. Illustrate a line from a favorite poem. Image can be anything: digital photo, painting, collage, etc. See the “Someone Had Better Be Prepared for a Rage” and “Do I Dare Disturb...” Posters

2. Film a three minute video on your favorite poem. See http://www.favoritepoem.org/ You needn’t read the whole poem (though you can); I’d like you talk to talk about why you like it. What lines stick out? What images? What does the poem say about life, love, nature, etc.?

3. Write an original sestina. I will provide you with six words to end your lines.

4. Investigate an unusual form of poetry and choose five of the following to write: senryu, ghazal, luc bat, tanaga, rondeau, rondel, roundelay, triolet, ruba’iyat, Spenserian stanza, one stanza of ottava rima.

5. Write a Pindaric and Sapphic ode on one of the following subjects: number 2 pencils, a fictional character from a book that you read this year, the critical paper, Mr.Hynes’ mustache, A-pod, or your favorite pair of sneakers.

6. Write a (complimentary) clerihew for everyone in class or for 20 teachers you’ve had.

7. Write a Petrarchan sonnet and a Shakespearean sonnet on a recent news story.

8. Using ballad meter (four beats, three beats, and the second and fourth line must rhyme), finish this story. You should add a minimum of ten new stanzas.

The Ballad of the One-Legged English Teacher* Now gather round and let me tell The tale of Mr. G And how his sweet wife Annabelle Did shoot out his left knee.

And if I tell the story true And if I tell it clear, There’s not a mortal one of you Won’t shriek in mortal fear.

*Note: You can replace “ “Mr. G.” and “shoot out his left knee” with anything of your choice. This is merely an illustrative example.

9. Write a shaped verse or an abecedarian.

10. Propose something else poetic. Not noetic.

Submissions:





Jeanne A. Geographic writers: Campbell, Goethe, Rimbaud

Max Kraus, p.8 --- "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" by W.B. Yeats



Steph Schwartz, p. 8 "Tell Me A Story" by Robert Penn Warren