Good evening all :)
Today was our last day of new material as the presentations begin on Tuesday, Nov. 26 (our next class). However, I will review database searches with you and perhaps even play some spoken word or slam poetry for you on Tuesday.
Let's start, though, with some links. The first is the handout on templates, which I went over at the beginning of class.
Next is a link to the first part of our study guide:
http://en202.blogspot.com/
http://en202.blogspot.com/
Then here are links to sources that you may find helpful for the upcoming paper. The first is Denise Levertov's essay on organic form, which I referred to today:
The others are articles that Dr. Ingram recommends:
Patrick Carmagian's "Untempered Tongues: Teaching Performance Poetry for Social Justice"
http://files.eric.ed.gov/
Patrick Carmagian's "Untempered Tongues: Teaching Performance Poetry for Social Justice"
http://files.eric.ed.gov/
"I Just Want to Be Heard" by Pellegrino, Zenkov, and Calamito:
Finally, here is a link to Aafa M. Weaver's bop "Rambling":
http://www.poets.org/
http://www.poets.org/
The Robert Johnson song is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Evelyn N. Alfred's bop is here:
flashes: a bop for bix b.
he hungered for the notes
playing before he could see the keys
mother bird chewed them for him
while he regurgitated beauty
fingertips savoring the song
without knowing the recipe.
the hungry and the hanged, the damaged and the done
striving along this spinning rock, tumbling past the sun
striving along this spinning rock, tumbling past the sun
without knowing the recipe
he learned how to taste the tune
adding brown sugar, nutmeg,
and horn lines
but couldn’t bake an unfamiliar harmony
cooling his heart, sinking the middle
to what effect?
is a fallen cake ruined?
the hungry and the hanged, the damaged and the done
striving along this spinning rock, tumbling past the sun
striving along this spinning rock, tumbling past the sun
is a fallen cake ruined?
forced to flash up the treble
singed in chicago winds.
south side speakeasies
intoxicated his ballads
he hungered for the notes.
the hungry and the hanged, the damaged and the done
striving along this spinning rock, tumbling past the sun
striving along this spinning rock, tumbling past the sun
The song excerpt comes from “God Bless Our Dead Marines” by A Silver Mt. Zion
The Bix Biederbecke song that inspired Evelyn's bop is here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Now, let's finish up with a few questions.
-- Try one of the templates at http://www.bgsu.edu/
-- Look for a bop poem online. How does it compare to and contrast with "Rambling" or "flashes: a bop for bix b."? Which poetic devices do you notice in the two poems? What is the effect of the refrain? do you recognize the song where the refrain is from?
-- Compare and contrast a bop poem with another of the poems we've read so far this semester. Discuss each poem's use of poetic devices.
-- What might have led Aafa M. Weaver to create a new form of poetry?
-- Which poems are you going to compare and contrast? Why?
-- Discuss free verse and form. Which do you prefer? Why? How does form make poetry more poetic? How does free verse make poetry more poetic?
-- Discuss the impact of line breaks, stanza breaks, enjambment, and end-stops in a poem. This poem may be one we've discussed. It may be one we've skipped over.
-- What comes to your mind when you think about poetry? Why? Why not?
Watch your inboxes for our schedule of presentations!
Dr. Szlyk
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