ENGLISH 10 ORIGINAL LYRIC POEM ASSIGNMENT

Now that youre mastering a lyric poem through your exegesis project, its time to write your own! Brett and I would like you to compose an original poem that follows the rules of one of the fixed forms we are studying (the villanelle, the sestina, the pantoum, the allad! or that uses a fixed meter and rhyme scheme and draws inspiration from one of the shaping forms we are studying (the elegy, the pastoral, the ode!" #onsult your text, The Making of a Poem, for the guidelines for these forms and examples of them" $his poem wont e due until the end of the week of %arch &', the last week efore (interim and several weeks after your analytical papers are due" )o why are we assigning it now* Because good poetry egins with inspiration, and were hoping that as you encounter examples of these forms over the next weeks, youll e inspired to try your hand at a few" +oull only e expected to hand in ,N- poem, ut you may want to fiddle around with a few over the next weeks, rather than allocate a small time the week efore the assignment is due and pray that the muse strikes during it" .s you write your poem, pay careful attention to/ &! images, sensory details 0! no filler words 1! care with line length (no more than &' sylla les in a line, unless you have a good reason! 2! attention to sound 3! emotion 4oems will e evaluated on their adherence to the rules of the form you choose (rhythm, rhyme, repetition, etc"!, the effort signaled y your accompanying drafts and revisions (dont save over early dra ts! "#t $ee% a r#nn&n' set o rev&sed dra ts(, and their sheer genius" 5emem er/ careful diction with attention to sound, strong images, thoughtful punctuation" $hough you will not e expected to write peer reviews for this assignment, it certainly ehooves you to r#n yo#r %oe) "y ot*ers to garner their input" In the realm of the withheld6the realm of metaphor, sym ol, allusion, connotation, and implication6there is often a large gap etween what you think youve conveyed and what others can grasp7 and while its true that you neednt strive to please anyone ut yourself, if you want to please the instructor, you may want to ensure that your writing is at least reasona ly intelligi le to a reasona ly intelligent reader" .ll poems will e su mitted to 4egasus, and they are considered an important assignment" )o $ee% +o%&es o all yo#r notes and dra ts! .nd have fun8 $he d#e date for this poem is/ Block 3/ $hursday, %arch &1, 0'&1 Blocks 0, 1, 9/ :riday, %arch &2, 0'&1

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