I cannot believe it is already MP3! Did you read what I posted on Friday? I was so wrapped up in our circle of love that I forgot to collect your work.
Please look back at Friday's post and organize that assignment. Once you get that taken care of, please attempt to write another form from the list (that means you should have tried 5/8 forms.)
The forms we are attempting are:
ode
elegy
villanelle
sestina
pantoum
sonnet
haiku
senryu
How are you doing with the forms? Post a response so I know how you are doing!
I would like to do more sharing this marking period. Please prepare yourselves for more cirlces of love :)
Homework: Let's discuss this in class.
Congratulations to Gracie and Gus on an outstanding performance! It was my favorite to see the two of you engaging in a sword fight. I was smiling from ear to ear!
Congratulations to Maddy on receiving an honorable mention for Young Arts! I am so proud of you!
These forms are awful! Sestinas and Villanelles will be the death of me. So done with this. SO DONE.
ReplyDeleteI am not a big fan of form poetry :( However, so far I've avoided the very very formal poems and have stuck to haiku, senryu, elegy and ode. Today, I am going to try to write a pantoum, but I'm already not liking it!
ReplyDelete-Angela Rollins
I like doing the forms of poetry, I got something pretty cool out of them, but the more complicated ones like the sestina and villanelle seem way harder. We have to try all of them in the end so we're all going to feel the pain anyways. I was fond of the pantoum because that ended up working out really well, the form lended itself and completed my poem for me, which was awesome. Whenever I write a haiku or senryu I feel like I'm not doing enough and there's a lot less words so then you have to pick at each word a lot more and it's very uncomfortable. Well, I suppose the point I'm trying to get at is that this is very good experience. While I'm not in love with everything that I'm producing with these forms, I feel like it is very good practice because it's much different from what I've been doing which is just writing whatever I want in any form I want, free verse and what not. Yeah. Good practice, I kinda like it.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I'm not really feeling these forms. Like at all. They're difficult and I can't seem to find inspiration in writing them. Although I'm attempting to try to produce something that's at least decent, it's not working out very well.
ReplyDelete-Mariah Gonzalez
I really like reading good versions of these poems. I've read a lot of good pantoums and for a while I was really obsessed with writing a pantoum, but they would never turn out the way I wanted them. These poems are different from others because they involve a lot of planning and thinking ahead, which is very difficult to write--I'm having a lot of trouble especially creating an ending.
ReplyDeleteI am loving the sestina, but its HARD. The forms aren't easy but I am really liking what is coming out of them.
ReplyDelete-Angela Boyle
I've been okay with everything so far. This is horrible though. I hate rhyming because it makes me feel like I'm in pre-school. I tried different forms, and I failed. This is the one thing I don't like. I start off like "oh I might be able to work with this." But then it just comes out like crap.
ReplyDeleteI really like these different forms. Although it seems to me like more than half the class despises poetry, I am one of the ones that do not. I actually love writing poetry. Trying some new forms has been very helpful to me, and I have been writing some (in my opinion) very good poems due to this assignment. However, I do dislike haiku and Senryu. I feel like they don't give me enough room to tell a story, or rather, show what I want to show through imagery.
ReplyDeleteI have tried an elegy, villanelle, a haiku, and a pantoum, and i am going to try the sestina.
ReplyDeleteI'm sort of still learning these forms on my own. I finished doing an Ode for the first time in my life, think...yeah, it was the first time. A senryu sounds like it would be hard as fuhh, but I'll probably attempt one soon. I don't what else to say, so I'll just end it off with lyrics that have been stuck in my head all day.
ReplyDelete"Cause when the lights turn off,
and it's my turn to settle down,
my main concern...
promise that you will sing about me.
promise that you will sing about me."
It's by Kendrick Lamar, I'm not sure if you're into rap, but if so, "Sing about me/dying of thirst" is a great song.
Still trying to get a hang of these different forms, so far I have written an Ode and an Elegy then I attempted to write a Sestina, that is not really working out but whatever. Next I'm going to either try an write a Pantoum or a Villanelle, I'm not digging these forms at all.
ReplyDeleteI think the forms are a cool thing. I like learning about the different kinds of poetry. And if nothing else they are a really cool starting point for drafts and stuff. And like Maddy I read some good poems written in these styles, and when they work they're really cool. The pantoum is so cool and wonderful if it is written well. They effect can be amazing. And I love circular endings and stuff so that kind of style and effect just makes me so HYPED. I also love haiku, and it is always fun to write. I am not the best at the form stuff. My writing and my ideas don't always come across well, but I think with the right concept and diction they can be super cool.
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