Aim: How has poetic expression evolved in the 21st century?
Before class started the teacher did a bit of “house cleaning” and reminded people to blog and told us what to do and how to deal with issues. We also had a bit of technical issues.
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?
We were deciding team names before the discussion. My team says it both since it made it more accessible helping literature grow but it also changes literature. And now we are in dead silence waiting for the break out room to end. My classmate said “Technology has both positive and negative effects on literature, but is definitely not ruining it. In terms of negatives, it is harder to be creative when so much literature is online, as you may subconsciously copy. In terms of positives, the media can also provide inspiration in terms of writing topics. In addition, the internet is a readily available source when not sure about certain writing rules, and so the skill in writing may increase. Finally, through the internet it is much easier to get your written pieces out into the world as well as ask for advice, as it is fairly easy to connect to others through it. Actually, I believe the positives outweigh the negatives, so in that way I suppose you can say technology actually improves literature.” My other classmate agrees but another says “Technology is ruining literature in a way in which it doesn't allow it for the exposure of the literature as technology has left many people not wanting to read but it is also beneficial for literature as it renews the stories from classic literature and turns it into a more modern story in forms of tv shows or stories.”
We did a bit of spirit reading and watched a video. It's about a woman called Rupi Kaur who became popular for writing poems in a book called “milk and honey”. We read some poems from the book. We watched another video. The teacher said you can find poetry on instagram twitter and song lyrics. We learn about epic poetry: A genre of classical poetry; a long narrative poem that is usually about heroic deeds and events that are significant to the culture of the poet. We also learned about micropoetry: Micropoetry is a genre of poetic verse which is characterized by its extreme brevity. In other words, a micropoem is a short poem.Micropoetry is a collective term for a variety of different forms of short poetry. As a poetic artform, it doesn’t really have any rules. Although it does consist of certain forms of short poetry with fixed rules such as haiku, tanka, senryu and gogyohka. There are also no real character length limitations either. The limits are set by the medium with which they are being shared, and also that invisible line where micropoetry becomes a regular length poem. This is why the majority of poems are less than 140 characters (twitter limit), with a maximum of 160 characters (mobile phone limit).
We now do the micropoetry challenge where we have to write a poem less than the twitter character restrictions. We share our poems. some form my classmate is
“I walk
I run
I crawl
I trudge on
through the darkness
and into the light”
“Be careful
of
stories told
about rebellion,
teamwork
be careful
of
stories of winning,
burning
they might ignite a fire
and it will not dim”
Mine is
Life Is sad
But it's not too bad
You can do what you want
You can dream all you want
It's up to you to achieve them
It will not just come
Its alot of work
But it might pay off
We did spirit reading on “Can instagram Make poems sell Again” We didn't
manage to finish the last three questions since we didn't do the reading fast
enough so we are going to do it for homework.
Reflection:
Today I learned a decent amount. I learned that technology can affect literature
which is every old thing and I learned about a person who got famous through
writing a book through the internet. The internet can help litruece but i can ruin it too.
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