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Inside Poetry: Getting At The Poem’s Basic Meaning & Technique

Posted on December 16, 2007 by dsader

Ask yourself the following questions that apply to your essay topic. Make notes as you go, and you will find it easier to organize your thoughts for the first draft. The poem’s basic content What is the context of the … Continue reading →

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Inside Poetry: Getting Organized to Write

Posted on December 16, 2007 by dsader

Now that you have collected your thoughts along with those of the critics, the next step is to organize the materials in preparation for writing. Before determining which pattern of organization you use, you must give careful thought to the … Continue reading →

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English 30 Poetry Assignment

Posted on December 11, 2007 by dsader

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 … Continue reading →

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The Night Aunt Dottie Caught Elvis’s Scarf When He Tossed It From The Stage Of The Rushmore Plaza Civic Center

Posted on May 8, 2007 by dsader

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 … Continue reading →

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To Make a Dadaist Poem

Posted on May 7, 2007 by dsader

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 … Continue reading →

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My Mother’s Kitchen

Posted on May 3, 2007 by dsader

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 … Continue reading →

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Ten Minute Spill

Posted on May 10, 2006 by dsader

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. … Continue reading →

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First Lines

Posted on May 10, 2006 by dsader

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 … Continue reading →

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