I collected the Lorna Crozier paragraphs today. See yesterday's blog for details.
Due Monday, a new, typed poem. Keep following the criteria we have been practicing and include all of the following details in your poem. You choose the details:
1. A proper noun such as Boo Radley, Mr. Happy, Walmart etc
2. a noun: taxi, egg, canvas, scissors
3. a verb from the kitchen: bake, boil, baste, wipe, fry, saute
4. a phrase, out of Africa, into the lake,
5. describe the light (from the moon, the sun, a lightbulb, a lamp, the stars etc light low in the trees, pale, left over . . .
6. point of view (tell the poem from a unique point of view)
7. make the poem about something important to you this time rather than a big idea such as war, homelessness Try something that is on your mind, a person you have trouble understanding, what is it like to be you? etc
8. include an epigraph from one of your poetry books
How to cite poetry using MLA style:
How to cite . . .
