Sara, Brit, Whit, please return the LIT texts to the library and pick up the poetry text. Thanks.
An aubade is a poem of farewell. Traditionally, written at dawn where two lovers must part.
When thinking of writing a poem, think, I just have to write a line and then another line and another line. In this manner, you won't write toward a dull ending or a pre-thought epiphany--hey, is that even possible?
Start with this opening
Just past dawn, the sun stands
with its heavy red head
NOW THE NEXT LINE OR WORD WILL SET YOUR TONE: SAD, CURT, APATHETIC ETC.
FOR EXAMPLE:
WHAT IF THE NEXT LINE READ
in curlers . . . . Read the stanza again with this line and you can imagine the speaker--
Why are the lovers parting? Is it a secret love? Is it war?
Is it not two lovers at all, i.e. you are changing the "aubade" form and saying farewell to childhood or innocence or loss?
One thing we know for sure, dawn must come and the dark eclipsed by light.
What if the next line read
A STATUE OF DAVID.
or the line read
sulking again.
Once you choose your next line, you are off. You've created tone, character, a reason for parting, reason for loving, how to say farewell.
And, you don't need to think too much about it because you can simply use one of the books you signed out from the library, open it, copy a line and you are off . . .
Just past dawn, the sun stands
with its heavy red head,
the last cult in America.
or
Just past dawn, the sun stands
with its heavy red head,
clueless in the kitchen.
Just past dawn, the sun stands
with its heavy red head,
a field guide of birds.
Just past dawn, the sun stands
with its heavy red head,
an aerosol can pointed at Adam.
Have fun fun fun.
If you have never left a lover at dawn, you need to GET OUT MORE, Christina!! Quit working at CIBC OR RBC or TD any institution forsaking language. Although several great poets have been bankers or insurance auditors. If you get the allusion, you get chocolate.
Or
Re-read Romeo and Juliet, Act 3 or 4! Miss Andiel doesn't remember and I need to mark the Lit test. Miss Andiel says, Figure it out!
