Here is the review sheet for the midterm. On page 1 is the structure and poem choices for the midterm as well as advice on how to prepare, on page 2 is a chart you can fill out to help you prepare. You can bring this handout and use it the day of the midterm.
midterm review sheet 2 poems f18
Here is a sample post with a photo of a poem from the subway:
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Hit enter to continue adding text. Then write your blog post.
Prose poetry is a relatively new poetic form, unlike forms we’ve already studied, like the sonnet or the ballad. A prose poem is a poem written in prose (ordinary written language) rather than verse. How does this work?
Typical features of a prose poem:
Also, we may also want to think about a prose poem as:
Definition adapted from Lehman, David. Best American Prose Poems. NY: Scribner, 2003.
Hi everyone,
I found the directions for how to add an image to blog posts. There is a new feature that was added since I wrote the directions for this assignment. It’s actually really easy to add the alternate text and doesn’t involve using the text box at all. When you click on Add Media, you’ll see a menu on the right hand side of the screen. If you scroll down, you’ll see there’s a place to add Alt Text–put in the title and author of the poem you’re righting about here and you’re all done. Then click Update. Very easy. Here’s a screenshot:
If you forget to add the Alt Text, that’s when you’ll see that giant text box. If that happens, you can click on this link from OpenLab which shows exactly what to do with the giant Alt Text box and then how to delete it. Click on the bold where it says WP Accessibility for step-by-step directions.
I will demonstrate how to do this on Wednesday now that I understand it.
https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/blog/help/wp-accessibility-plugin/
You may already know the term ballad in relation to music. A ballad in music is a slow song that conveys a lot of emotion. The musical term ballad comes from the poetic form ballad, a poem that tells a story.
Typical features of a ballad:
Today’s class goal: to explore the similarities and differences between Anonymous’s “My Boy Willie” and Gwendolyn Brooks’ “We Real Cool.”
The poems we’re reading today, William Carlos Williams’ “The Red Wheelbarrow,” ” This Is Just to Say” and Amy Lowell’s “Aliens” are examples of imagist poetry.
What is imagism? According to the Poetry Foundation’s website it is “an early 20-th century poetic movement that relied on the resonance of concrete images drawn in precise, colloquial language rather than traditional poetic diction and meter.”
Amy Lowell’s criteria for imagist poetry was based on six specific principles:
“1. To use the language of common speech. . . .
2. To create new rhythms. . . .
3. To allow absolute freedom in the choice of subject. . . .
4. To present an image. . . .
5. To produce poetry that is hard and clear, never blurred nor indefinite.
6. Finally, most of us believe that concentration is of the very essence of poetry.”
Another way for us to think about imagist poems is to ask ourselves, what do imagist poems not do? What don’t they focus on? What is it like for us as readers to read these poems? Are they satisfying–why or why not?
Here are the directions for Blog Post #1, which must be posted on Open Lab by Monday, October 29th at 10 am:
Blog Post #1 poetry in motion
Hi everyone,
A reminder that Paper #1 is due on Wednesday, in hard copy form, at the beginning of class. There is a penalty for late submissions which is explained on the guidelines for the paper.
We’ll also be reading and discussing three new poems: William Carlos Williams’ “The Red Wheelbarrow,” “This is Just to Say” and Amy Lowell’s “Aliens”–online link can be found in the syllabus or the Readings tab on the main menu of our site.
I’ll also be explaining the assignment for Blog Post #1, which will be due on October 29th, on OpenLab. Remember that OpenLab assignments count for 25% of your course grade.
Lastly, coming on time, ready to start at 10 am is an important responsibility. Too many of you are coming consistently late to class. I’m happy to talk with any of you after class about how to insure you arrive to class on time and prepared. Please leave extra travel time so that you get the benefit of attending class from start to finish.
Hi everyone,
For Monday, October 1st, you should do the following:
We’ll also continuing to discuss “Persephone, Falling,” “Found Sonnet: The Wig,” and “Instructions on Giving Up”–please print out the Rita Dove poems so you can annotate your copy!
On Wednesday, we’ll be working on drafts of Paper #1 which will be due on Wed, October 10th.
Handout on Organizing Paper #1Below are two student papers from fall 2017 responding to the same assignment (Paper #1). Both papers did a great job following the assignment guidelines, providing thoughtful connections between the poem and the college course. The first paper responds to Option 1 and is about William Wordsworth’s sonnet “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802”:
sample paper 1 Wordsworth
The second sample paper responded to Option 2 and is about the Countee Cullen poem:
Sample Student paper option 2 fall 2017The OpenLab is an open-source, digital platform designed to support teaching and learning at City Tech (New York City College of Technology), and to promote student and faculty engagement in the intellectual and social life of the college community.
