Please work on your segue poems today in class. When you get stuck or need more inspiration, take a look at these poets reading their poems. Pay attention to the sound of the poem. How do the words build and connect or create an overall tone?:
Mary Oliver's Wild Geese read by a woman in a car.
Mary Oliver's Something read by a busy woman.
Mary Oliver's Sunflowers read by a woman whose battery is low.
Mary Oliver's God at Work read by a woman who is worried about her ovaries.
Draft and revise your character poem and your poetry cycle.
POETS: some advice about your poetry:
--Many of you overuse participial phrases and gerund phrases. You add adjective clauses to almost every sentence. Please don't. Poetry often sounds better when you state ideas clearly.
--Present tense is stronger than past tense.
--Choose interesting and active verbs over blah, passive, or neutral verbs. (looking is a weak verb as opposed to stare, peep, glance, or inspecting for example.)
--Again, you need to use punctuation in your poetry. You are not e.e. cummings. Fragments are NOT okay in poetry. They are confusing.
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