Paper, Poems
British Literature.
Tue, Aug 21st, 2007 at 3:53 pm
Guidelines for final poetry project:
Paper
- Two full pages
- Compare/contrast the tone of Rudyard Kipling’s “If” with the tone of T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”
- Standard essay format (typed, Times New Roman, 12 pt font, double-spaced, 1″ margins, header, title). After the amount of formatting “fudges” on the last paper, I will not accept anything that does not follow these guidelines. Better to have a shorter paper than have to turn it in late.
Poetry
Choose three of the following options (you may pick an option twice, but you cannot do one option three times):
- Four haiku (three lines with 5,7,5 syllabic pattern)
- One Cinquain (five lines with 2,4,6,8,2 syllabic pattern; no rhyme scheme)
- One (other Cinquain) (five lines of any length with ababb)
- One free-verse poem
If you wish to write and perform a song, you may substitute original music and lyrics for the other poems. If you wish to write a song for existing music, you must write one other type of poem.
Please email me with any questions.
12 Responses to “Paper, Poems”
August 21, 2007 at 8:26 pm
ummm….. on our free verse poems we r still suppose to put in like the simlies, metaphors, etc.??
August 21, 2007 at 9:10 pm
Yep, that’s what makes good poetry. Try to cram as much meaning into a few words as possible.
August 21, 2007 at 9:28 pm
If I wrote song and music would I have to perform it? or is sheet music okay?
August 21, 2007 at 9:34 pm
I suppose sheet music would be okay, but the class actually hearing it is part of the point of having you write a song with original music and lyrics . Can you record it? Bring in a CD?
August 22, 2007 at 6:29 pm
you said yesterday that we could write 3 page paper and write 2 pages of poems. can we still do that or not?
August 22, 2007 at 6:34 pm
Yes, but it must be three complete pages. Go over three if you are worried that you haven’t written enough.
August 23, 2007 at 5:02 pm
are the rough drafts of our poems also due tomorrow? they will definatly take alot more time than the essay.
August 23, 2007 at 5:36 pm
The rough draft of your paper is due tomorrow. I want to know what type of poems you will be writing, but you do not need to have any poems written.
August 23, 2007 at 7:56 pm
Thanks, does our rough draft need to be typed and the full two pages? or more of an outline or what we have writeen so far?
August 26, 2007 at 8:41 pm
So, I tried to email you like I told you I would, but for some reason it wouldn’t send.
email me first and we will see if it will work then?
tsascutie11@yahoo.com
August 26, 2007 at 9:15 pm
This may seem like a stupid time to ask this, but are the poems due tomorrow?
August 26, 2007 at 10:02 pm
Nora, I just sent you an email. If you need to print the paper and poems, come in before class and print them off my computer.
Sir, yes.