Tuesday
New assignment! This one is for December 5 and 6.
- Create a "call and response" from Donne to a character in The Piano Lesson, or from the character to Donne.
- Each pair of poems should reveal a powerful CONTRAST.
- Each should contain something about MEMORY as a theme or motif.
- Choose a poem from Donne. Closely examine its form, structure, style, and yes, even the meter. Emulate his style the best you can. You may add elements of humor that are more modern, but emulate the style of your chosen poem.
- Choose a character from The Piano Lesson, and in the voice of that character, answer or respond to "Donne's" poem.
- Use a similar structure to Donne, but make the stylistic and formal changes you think would be appropriate to the character. Do your best to capture the character's voice.
1 comment:
How will different aspects of the poem be weighted? i.e. Will I be penalized if I go out of my way to keep a proper rhyme scheme, but that disrupts the flow of the poem? Managing meter, stanzas, rhyming, flow and structure in general is hard to keep up with, so are different aspects of the poem worth more points?
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