Blog #5, Niki Lam, Period 6, 11/10/20, Day B Freshman 2021
Aim: How has poetic expression evolved in the 21st century?
Do Now: TEAM DISCUSSION
With your TEAMS discuss the following; Do you believe technology and the 21st century are ruining literature as we know it? Why or why not?
To begin our lesson for the day, teams are assigned to breakout rooms to discuss our opinion on what effect technology has on literacy in the 21st century. My team discussed that technology doesn’t interfere nor ruin literature, it is neither a pro nor con, the reason being is, the internet is so widespread and accessible to almost everyone, we are given more chances to learn and rely on our own devices. But a con being that as much as technology can provide for us, it can also be viewed as a distraction, I myself can recall the times I’m not on task because of the endless accessible sites on the internet.
After the teams’ spokesperson has voiced their opinion on the Do Now, we began spirit reading some poems from “Milk and Honey” before moving on to a video of Rupi Kaur with Jimmy Fallon the author of the poems we just read, “Milk and Honey”. In the video, both Rupi Kaur and Jimmy Fallon discussed the topic of her journey on becoming an author. Her life began when she moved to Canada and was unable to communicate in a new environment, she sought out comfort from books and art. From there she grew a community that enjoyed her work and was intersected on purchasing her works. But the problem was she doesn’t have a book and thus she steered away from her planned out lawyer career and successfully published “Milk and Honey”.
Where can we find poetry?
We spirited readed examples of micropoetry that were found from instagram, twitter, and song lyrics. Poetry itself is free and is for everyone, it doesn’t have unwritten rules but other examples like haikus, tanka, seryu and gogyohka has fixed rules you have to keep in mind of when writing, some other rules can also be the character limitation when you write a poem on social media.
Activities:
MicroPoem Challenge!
We are given the challenge to make a poem with a character limit of 140 for Twitter or 160 which is the mobile phone limit.
Here is the poem I’ve constructed during the challenge
Our lives are on repeat
We do the same routine
Everyday
But the sounds of
Volleyball, friends, and laugher
The comfort of
Social media and daydreams
Will always
Be my part of my routine
We began spirit reading “can Instagram make poems sell again” by John Maher who discussed the success of Rupi Kaur poetry book “Milk and Honey”. As the article speaks of her successes like being the topseller for 10 weeks, it also converse about the heated debates about her book. One side of the debate consists of criticism from others who doesn’t find her work as traditional poetry but as “trendy” robbing the spotlight of other deserving writers, but the other side disagrees, and speaks about how her success brought a new beginning for the poetry world, increasing sales and demands for more book about poetry. The opposing side also debates that no matter what form poetry takes, even on social media, it is still poetry at heart, and Rupi is just one of many who brings inspiration to the people around her.
Reflection
Throughout today’s class I was learned that poetry itself has no form nor limits, you are free to express your ideas, feeling, mood, and etc. It doesn’t matter where you write your poem, whether it's through social media, your original song lyrics, micropoetry or even through a script, it doesn’t matter if others disagree with your poetry. As long as you feel as it reflects who you are or what you are feeling it is poetry, and I think Rupi Kaur represented that perfectly because regardless of where she started it what criticism she felt, “Milk and Honey” is poetry to her.
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