Fink English 271

To watch my YouTube video on Brooks and Weiss for Poem 5, please click on this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euZx3egV86A Brooks and Weiss's poems are examples of poetry built on allusions, which is one of the assignment choices you can do for Poem 5.  In your poem, you should have multiple allusions, as Weiss does; they should permeate the poem. In the case of Brooks, the title is the only direct allusion, and we are studying the poem because of the remarkable use of poetic techniques such as rhyme, internal rhyme, alliteration, and assonance. Another assignment choice, represented by the Prado poem, is a poem that tells a story that is intended to lead to a larger truth. The final choice, represented by the Ramanujan poem, is a meditative poem (which may include fragments of stories as examples) that reaches some sort of truth (or realization that the truth is out of reach). SOME IDEAS FOR DOING THE 2 KINDS OF "MEDITATION" TOPIC  if you want...

To watch my video on Pizarnik (surreal narrative) and Mullen (poetic appropriation, please click on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qrTCjoW2Yw THE SURREAL NARRATIVE ·        Create a situation where people or forces of nature (wind, rain) or animals or plants or objects, etc. are doing impossible things, either to themselves or to others or with others.  ·        Decide on either a single narrative in the poem with a beginning, middle, end OR several narratives with only emotional tone or some other connection as the thread. As Pizarnik does, you can explore your own emotions—externalizing them, never using “I.” This will be easy for some of you: Manuel is inspired by horror and sci-fi movies and video games, Brianna wrote an ekphrastic poem about Kahlo that's close to a surreal narrative, and Janessa can make this fit her interest in creating poetry that inspires people to overcome their demons (a...