Blogger #5 - Victor Chen Period 1 - 11/9/2020 Day A, Freshmen 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?
Housekeeping/Reminder - Before getting started into the day’s lesson, Ms. Peterson reminded us that blogging counts as an essay grade and if we don’t do it, it will affect our grade heavily. Ms. Peterson then told us, Ray, Eric, and me that we have a blog for the cycle.
Notes/Class Discussion
Afterward, we moved on to the do now. We were split into breakout rooms and were given some time to discuss the question. In my group, we talked about how compared to the past, when books weren’t much of an abundant thing, we have much more access to literature in the 21st century, now, through technology. After we came back from the breakout rooms, some of the other students shared ideas similar to the ideas my team discussed in the breakout rooms, comparing the present to the past. For example, one of the students explains how in the past, books were much more expensive while today, books are much cheaper, and you can find literature basically anywhere especially on the internet. Additionally, with the technology we have today, we can always find inspiration for writing literature online, while in the past, it is much harder to find inspiration to write literature.
Next, we watched a video (link below) about Rupi Kaur’s history and her inspiration for the book “Milk and Honey” and “Timeless”. To summarize the video, Rupi Kaur moved to Canada from Punjab when she was four years old and she didn’t know any English. Subsequently, she couldn’t make any friends so books became her friends. She then started to draw, paint, and write poetry and attend lots of open mics where people started to become fond of her poetry. People started asking Rupi for her books but no one wanted to publish her so she self-published her books with the techniques she was taught in her school where she studied design. As a result, she spent barely any money self-publishing her book. Rupi then talked about the time she drew one of her images on Sam Smith’s arm and then read “Timeless” and told her inspiration for writing it. To specify, after the book “Milk and Honey”, everyone wanted another book and pressured her to write it, so she wrote “Timeless” to sort of say, “Stop, I’ll do it when I’m ready”.
We then spirit read through some poems and watch a video of Rupi Kaur reading from “Milk and Honey” (link below)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y4sIbnRM58&feature=share&ab_channel=SimonSchusterUK
Here are some examples of Rupi Kaur’s poetry.
Here are some poems that you can find on Twitter/Instagram:
Here are some song lyrics/poems by some famous people:
One taught me love, “You love me, and I love you.
one taught me patience, Your head hurts, mine does too.
one taught me pain, And it’s just words and they cut
now I’m so amazing.” deep but it’s our world, it’s just us two.”
-Arianna Grande -Drake
We later discussed what an epic poem is and spirit read the definition. An epic poem is 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. The following is an example of a well known epic poem, “The Odyssey” by Homer. It is about the heroic deeds and Odysseus' 10-year struggle to return home after the Trojan War. While Odysseus battles mystical creatures and faces the wrath of the gods, his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus stave off suitors vying for Penelope's hand and Ithaca's throne long enough for Odysseus to return. Last but not least, we spirit read through “Can Instagram Make Poems Sell Again?” At least once a year around National Poetry Month, headlines ask “Is poetry dead?” “...reported in 2015 that the share of Americans who had read at least one work of poetry in the previous year had dropped from 17% in 1992 to 6.7% in 2012.” As this statistic shows, poetry is decreasing as time goes on but only until Rupi Kaur’s and many other poets’ appearances. Thus, the passage is mostly about Rupi Kaur’s impact on the poetry world and whether poetry can be saved. Afterward, Ms. Peterson split us into breakout rooms to discuss and answer the 3 questions.about the passage, “Can Instagram Make Poems Sell Again?” However, we ran out of time and weren’t able to discuss the questions as a class and went right into the homework after coming back from the breakout room.
Homework:
Students are expected to finish all the classwork that they haven’t finished yet and the homework. The homework consists of writing a micropoem using the wordpool we created for homework for inspiration. A micropoetry is a genre of poetic verse which is characterized by its extreme brevity. In other words, a micropoem is a short poem. To be more specific, micropoetry is a collective term for a variety of different forms of short poetry. As a poetic art form, 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.
Reflection of Today’s Lesson
What did I learn?
In today’s lesson, I learned Rupi Kaur’s past and inspirations for her well-known poems. Rupi Kaur moved to Canada from Punjab when she was four years old and she didn’t know any English so she started to draw, paint, and write poetry and attend lots of open mics where people started to become fond of her poetry. Later she self-published her book and started her career. Additionally, I learned that an epic poem is 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 and a micropoetry is a genre of poetic verse which is characterized by its extreme brevity. In other words, a micropoem is a short poem.
Why did I learn it?
I learned this to get inspiration from Rupi Kaur’s poems and her life to write my own poems. I am inspired by how Rupi Kaur moved to Canada from Punjab, not knowing any English but still was able to write such exquisite poems that are famous today. Furthermore, her poems also form many inspirations and ideas that I could write in my own poems. For instance, for the poem “Timeless”, I could write my own poems about my daily interactions with friends and family or frustrations with some of my relationships like what Rupi Kaur did.
How would I use what I learned?
I can use my inspirations from Rupi Kaur’s poems to write my own poems. As mentioned above, about the inspirations I got from “Timeless”, I could write my own poems about my daily interactions with friends and family or frustrations with some of my relationships like what Rupi Kaur did. Additionally, I can use what I learned about epic poems and micropoetry to create and practice those kinds of poems.
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