Aim: How can we use the poem, “This is Just to Say” by William Carlos Williams as inspiration for own poems?
Do Now: Describe a time when you or someone you know did something that was “technically wrong” and you should have felt sorry for it but you didn’t.
I don’t remember anything in the past that I should have felt sorry for because if I did, I will think it did not happened
This Is Just To Say
BY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
When I finished the poem I read the background of it and I learned that William Carlos Williams wrote a quick note and put it on the refrigerator. Then I read the next poem which is
Variations on a Theme
by William Carlos Williams
1
I chopped down the house that you had been saving to live in next summer. I am sorry, but it was morning, and I had nothing to do
and its wooden beams were so inviting.
2
I gave away the money that you had been saving to live on for the
next ten years. The man who asked for it was shabby
and the firm March wind on the porch was so juicy and cold.
3
Last evening we went dancing and I broke your leg. Forgive me. I was clumsy and I wanted you here in the wards, where I am the doctor!
-- Kenneth Koch
I am not in the online class so doing the activity is going to be boring doing with no one. I read the section “Using Imagery in Poetry”, in that section I learned that imagery is important in a poem. Imagery can create an experience allowing others to feel what we feel and how it looks.
example of imagery:
the clouds collapsed,
they’re touching the ground
trying to come alive,
but they can’t.
This poem shows the landscape and how hopeless it is.
My heart was warm,
Like the swelling waters of the ocean,
Just basking in the first rays of morning sun
This poem shows how the ocean and the sun represents your happiness
I felt the end of something great,
Like when you take the last bite of birthday cake,
And all that’s left is a few powdery crumbs on your frosting streaked dish
This poem shows the sadness in the last bite of cake and the crumbs on the frosting streaked dish.
“Fast Break” By Edward Hirsch
A hook shot kisses the rim and
hangs there, helplessly, but doesn’t drop,
and for once our gangly starting center
boxes out his man and times his jump
perfectly, gathering the orange leather
from the air like a cherished possession
and spinning around to throw a strike
to the outlet who is already shoveling
an underhand pass toward the other guard
scissoring past a flat-footed defender
who looks stunned and nailed to the floor
in the wrong direction, trying to catch sight
of a high, gliding dribble and a man
letting the play develop in front of him
in slow motion, almost exactly
like a coach’s drawing on the blackboard,
both forwards racing down the court
the way that forwards should, fanning out
and filling the lanes in tandem, moving
together as brothers passing the ball
between them without a dribble, without
a single bounce hitting the hardwood
until the guard finally lunges out
and commits to the wrong man
while the power-forward explodes past them
in a fury, taking the ball into the air
by himself now and laying it gently
against the glass for a lay-up,
but losing his balance in the process,
inexplicably falling, hitting the floor
with a wild, headlong motion
for the game he loved like a country
and swiveling back to see an orange blur
floating perfectly through the net.
When I finish I start working on finding more where it shows literature devices or techniques. I found “while the power-forward explodes past them in a fury”, it shows a strong choice of words and it also shows imagery. This line “A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn’t drop,” this shows imagery of how the basket in game stays in place like it a statue.
Aim: How has poetic expression evolved in the 21st century?
Do Now: 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?
I think no because literature is written works and for technology you can also type things out which also count as literature.
I watch the video then I read the short poems and poetry can be found anywhere in social media.
Reflection
I learned that imagery in poems shows others how they feel about something. That William Carlos Williams accidentally made a short poem from just writing a note on the fridge and how he only talks 20 seconds and the poem doesn't even rhyme. You can write a simple note and it can count as a short free verse poem.
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