poetry essay help(two part)

The Lively Arts

Poetry Project prompt

Preparation: Before beginning to work on this project, re-read Mary Oliver’s “Sound,” and review your notes from our poetry presentation. You will also need to work closely with the poetry handout you received in section (this is also posted on Moodle).

Assignment: The Poetry Project consists of TWO PARTS. Here are the basics, with more specific instructions following:

You will pick one of the three news articles posted on Moodle, and read it

You will rewrite the article as a poem, using one of the specific styles of poetry you learned about in section (the handout of the style choices is on Moodle)

More Specific Details:

1) Pick one of the articles posted on Moodle. Read all of them before you pick—which one will make the most interesting poem? Once you’ve picked, carefully read the article, and make a list of its most salient, interesting, funny, or absurd elements, or any compelling or evocative words it uses, etc.—basically, make a list of all the points, images, or words you plan to use in your poem.

2) Decide which style of poetry you will use to write your poem. You must choose one of the styles that you learned in section (in the handout) Make sure you know the basic “rules” for your chosen style of poetry; google your chosen style and refresh yourself on how it works; etc.

3) Using your chosen style, re-write your news article as a poem. Your poem can be as long or as short as you like, so long as it

- bears some resemblance to the news article (by its nature, poetry is less explicit than prose, so this resemblance can be fairly abstract!)

- follows the rules of the poetic style you’ve chosen

4) Write a short essay (minimum one page, 12 pt. font, double spaced) in which you explain the poetry style you chose and describing the specific ways your poem reflects the news article. Please discuss anything you learned from this project—did you notice anything about language, words, information, that you find interesting? Did writing the poem change your first impression of the news story? In what ways do these two modes of expression (poetry and news reporting) differ?