Seque Poem Collaborative Project

Seque poem draft:

Write a poem about absolutely anything. So far we have focused on the importance of character (your persona or mask), imagery, and now line. Consider these issues when writing your poem.

A poem should try to say something about the human condition. Remember that the human condition is not always about death and negative feelings. There is that thing called joy as well.

Like the poem cycle "Seques" your poem will begin a correspondence between you and another student poet. Today write the first poem. When you have completed your first draft, print your poem (make sure you have a title and you # your draft [Segue Draft #1], and save).

Hand your poem to another student...someone you want to correspond with. Poets who are slow will have fewer choices in this matter. In any case, you will partner with a poet. Remember who you have sent your poem to, so this poet can give you a poem back.

What to do when you have been handed a poem:

1. Read the poem you have been handed.
2. Think about the poem you have been handed.
3. BRAINSTORM a creative response using the poem you have read as a model or jumping off point for your own ideas.
4. COMPOSE a poem in response to the poem you have been handed. Write and save your poem draft. I suggest saving it in the same file as Seque: Draft #1.

For now, that's all.

HOMEWORK/ON GOING ASSIGNMENT:
DRAFT #3 of your CHARACTER POEM:

In draft #3 add imagery. Use figurative language to make your abstract ideas concrete. Use allusion, personification, onomatopoeia, simile, metaphor, symbol, allegory, alliteration, assonance, consonance, or kenning. Don't know the word? Look it up and learn the term. After adding imagery to your poem, making sure there is a clear image that is conjured in the mind of a reader, put your poem back into lines.