Create three “poetry problems” that are more interesting and challenging than the best of the problems I’ve given you so far.
For this post, I decided to create two shorter, more thought-provoking prompts, and one longer one that is more group interactive. I tried to make all of them as challenging and fun as ever.
(1) Pick a poem that we've read this semester. If you had the impossible task of summarizing this poem in just one word, taking into account all of it's substance and subtext, what would it be and why?
(2) Take a poem that we've read in class and ask yourself, if it were to fall apart, how would it do so? Would it disintegrate or explode? (Was the theme of the poem bold and powerful, or was it passive and light?)
(3) As a group, take into consideration all of the poems we've read this semester. Decide on two of your favorite poets, as well as your favorite poem. Take a section of this poem, and rewrite it as a two voice poem. Each "voice" is an interpretation of how you think each of the two poets would have written this section. Was it easy or difficult trying to imitate the writing style of these poets? Does writing it in different perspectives, and as a two voice poem, add depth or change the overall theme of the section?
