My Creative Writing Poetry assignment

Love: Fun or Not?

(Sonnet)

Love is wonderful and beautiful

It has no sense of hurting anyone

Love can make you push, cry, smile, mad and pull

Love can be lost for some, but can be won.

Love can not be there all the time, of course

Love can succeed, but it may not and fail

It’s considered that a knight on a horse

Will be there to save the day, fairy tale.

It may be in a disguise, or not

Hidden for fun or accidentally

Love is found in a note or a rose caught

By a guy or a girl, very lovely

I would never give up love for many

Because love is like a cute bunny.

Beauty

(Personification)

Beauty is a weird

thing

It happens to

be sweet but

sometimes sad.

Beauty is funny

in its own way.

Beauty is a tease,

misunderstood,

and killed

Killed by

people who

tease or bully

it.

Creative Poetry Exercise

ENGL 495: Multigenre Literacy in Global Context
Poetry: Creative

Complete the following creative writing (poetry) exercises.  

1. Alliteration and Assonance Lists

Create a list of word pairs and phrases that are built around alliteration or assonance. Remember, alliteration is when words in close proximity start with (or contain) the same consonant sound (as in pretty picture). Assonance is when words in close proximity echo vowel sounds (bent pen). Try to come up with at least ten of each.

Great girl. Cute cut.

                Big boy. Filthy fingers.

She set short standards.

Geeky glasses.

What was what. No numbers needed.

Mom must mumble.

Kids cry.

 Lots of pots. Grime time.

 Coy boy. Pug Mug.

My guy. Noisy voice.

A book in a nook. A boat in a moat.

 A bat chased by a cat.

Nice mice.

 

2. Metaphors for Life

Make a list of significant life events – birth, death, graduation, marriage, having children, starting your own business. Next, come up with a metaphor for each of these events. Remember: a metaphor is when we say one thing is another thing. A simile is when we say one thing is like another thing.

Metaphor: Life is a dance.

Simile: Life is like a box of chocolates (as a metaphor, this would be life is a box of chocolates)

Tip: Choose metaphors that are visually interesting. Metaphors for life as a dance or box of chocolates are both concrete and easy for readers to visualize.

Birth – Birth is a bundle of joy.

First day of college – First day of college is cutting the cord of dependence.

First love – First love is butterflies in your stomach and your heart fluttering.

Graduation – Graduation is feeling free from the chains and binds of education.

First job – First job is shooting fireballs over your head, hoping not to get burned

3. Lyrics and Musicality

Choose a catchy song that you enjoy and rewrite the lyrics, but stick to the rhythm and meter. Try to go way off topic from what the original lyrics were about. You can play the song while you work the exercise or search for the lyrics online and use those as your baseline. The idea is to get your mind on the musicality in your writing.

The song I chose was originally "It's Gonna Be Me" by NSYNC.... Sorry this is so morbid but I realized as I thought of "It's Gonna Be Me" it sounded like "I Gotta Pee-Pee"

 

"I Gotta Pee-Pee"

[Lance:] I gotta--pee--pee
[Justin:] Oh, yeah

[Justin:]
It might be hurtin, babe
There ain’t no cryin
You’ve felt it come and go…
How warm the pee, I remember

Made me believe in oddities
No man, no cry
Maybe that's why

Every time I go to the loo
Never seems like I need to poo
Gotta lose the pee again
But I can’t pee like them
Baby, when you finally,
Get to poo someday
Guess what,
I gotta pee-pee

[JC:]
I got so much noise, babe
But to poop out, and to blow
I got time to waste
I cry and cry on the loo, you see
I gotta pee-pee, in the end
You can't cry
So just tell me why

Every time I go to the loo
Never seems like I need to poo
Gotta lose the pee again
But I can’t pee like them
Baby, when you finally,
Get to poo someday (someday)
Guess what, (what)
I gotta pee-pee

[Lance:] I gotta pee-pee
[Justin:] Oh yeah...

[Justin:]
There will be say
The poo’s gone, I’ll pee..
I gotta-gotta-gotta-gotta-gotta

[Justin:] I gotta pee-pee

All that poo
Never seems like I need to poo
Gotta lose the pee
But I can’t do that
When finally (finally)
You get to shove
Guess what (guess what)

Every time I go to the loo
Never seems like I need to poo (to poo)
Gotta lose the pee again (lose the pee)
But I can’t pee like them
Baby, when you finally,
Get to poo someday (poo…)
Guess what, (guess what)
I gotta pee-pee

Every time I go to the loo (oh…)
Never seems like I need to poo
Gotta lose the pee again (lose the pee)
But I can’t pee like them
Baby, when you finally, (finally..)
Get to poo someday
Guess what, (guess what)
I gotta pee-pee

[Justin:] I gotta pee-pee…

http://www.writingforward.com/writing_exercises/writing-exercises/poetry-writing-exercises-post

What Do I Think about Poetry?

Poetry, for me, isn't my favorite. However, when I was in high school, my teacher tried her best to accommodate me. Why did she have to do that? There was a particular assignment called the sound poem. It was frustrating for me because it meant I had to somehow write the sounds I was hearing. That's kinda impossible for me - I only say kinda because I was able to - but I thought it was impossible to do it because my sounds are different than others'. She encouraged me to try my best. That's when I wrote my favorite poem - Dr. Pepper. It was a mix of sound and sensory poem. I really liked to write that poem because Dr. Pepper is one of my favorite sodas.

Another poem that I enjoyed writing for that class was a poem where I compared myself with my brother as we drive a car. I noticed that there were similarities between me and my brother as we each drove our own car, so I was able to use that and applied it to a poem. It was cute and funny. I will post both poems as soon as I find them.

Another thing I never quite liked about poems was the rhyme. I can understand when something rhymes, but to explain how exactly it rhymes is difficult for me to do. I never liked it. Never will. I will always notice when a poem has a sort of pattern for rhyme such as ABBA, CDDC, etc. It's something that will catch my eye.

I never liked to analyze poems. I didn't think poems were meant to be open to interpretation. I always thought it was an expression of how people felt. I never, when I wrote poems, meant for people to analyze my own poems. I just wanted to express myself or follow the rules of how each particular poem is set up.

The Works of a Poetry Analysis paper.. bear with me :)

I've been looking for a poem to analyze and I've found this part to be difficult as many poems are short and I feel like it's not sufficient enough for me to analyze as I can't even imagine how to start analyzing a short poem. However,  I feel like this is a good way to develop a paper because even though I don't sound formal, I'm able to answer questions when I look back at what I've written and I'm able to have other readers help me by giving feedback. Having this kind of outline/scratch rough draft allows me to expand more later. I also put down different secondary sources at the end because I can't decide what I want to use until I realize what I want to talk about in my paper. I hope this makes sense and that it doesn't bother any of you reading along with my blog.

Example: The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams. While this poem has physical imagery, how can one take from this poem so many interpretations? A person can imagine white chickens, clucking, bucking, walking around next to the red wheelbarrow. But someone could say that the rain is glazed over the red wheelbarrow. Another person could say that the glazed rain is beside the white chickens on the ground, which could be a puddle. "So much depends/ upon / a red wheel / barrow" - what could that mean? Does it mean so much stuff is in the red wheel barrow and they depend on it to support the stuff?

This poem is set up in four couplets which are set up in an unique way: three words the first line and one word the second line of each couplet. If you can look at the couplets separately, on its own, it would seem as if you're saying it to give a picture in your mind. "so much depends / upon": one can think of something that can relate to their lives. For example, I could think to myself "so much depends upon my graduation. I know I have to get into the credential program". The next couplet is "a red wheel / barrow" which a person can visualize the red wheelbarrow because that's a simple description of what can pop up in your mind. "glazed with rain / water" could be someone's skin got covered in rainwater, a puddle made the ground glazed with rainwater, the chickens are glazed with rainwater, the red wheelbarrow is glazed with rainwater, the list goes on. This couplet makes everyone think and imagine something different that can be glazed with rainwater. "Beside the white / chickens" could be that you imagine yourself standing by the white chickens looking at the rainwater and the wheelbarrow. It could be that the puddle is next to the wheelbarrow and the chickens. There are many different ways to look at each couplet and that's what Williams wanted us readers to do: use our imagination.

I found it interesting that Williams decided to split "wheelbarrow" and "rainwater". These are two bound words, but in the poem, he decided to break them up. He either wanted his readers to focus on the fact that you can do anything you want writing a poem or he wanted to prove a point. But what point is he trying to prove? That's what I will try to figure out as I continue to analyze other parts of this poem.

I want to say that there is something about sound in this poem. The vowels are emphasized with almost every word used in the poem. But I could be of bad judgement considering I can't hear :)

In my Writing about Literature class, my teacher showed a video about The Red Wheelbarrow. I want to somehow use this to incorporate my interpretation of the poem, but it's hard to refer to a video when it's someone else's drawing incorporated into a video. Here's the video.

(secondary sources possibilties: 

"Poem of the week: The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams." Europe Intelligence Wire 8 Mar. 2010. General OneFile. Web. 13 Sep. 2012.

Document URL
http://go.galegroup.com.libproxy.csun.edu/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA220643117&v=2.1&u=csunorthridge&it=r&p=ITOF&sw=w

 

Source Citation   (MLA 7^th Edition)

YOUNGBER, QUENTIN. "Williams's THE RED WHEELBARROW." The Explicator 58.3 (2000): 152. General OneFile. Web. 13 Sep. 2012.

Document URL
http://go.galegroup.com.libproxy.csun.edu/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA63723170&v=2.1&u=csunorthridge&it=r&p=ITOF&sw=w)

Song vs. Poem

How does one compare a song to a poem? One must be able to look at the song lyrics and listen to the song the way that someone would look at a poem. We have to be able to look at the lyrics and see if there are different aspects of a poem within the song.

My examples will be a little bit different than my other classmates as I will be analyzing a man who signs the songs that are popular along with visuals that will match the song's meaning. Then I will also look at the song itself, who was the original singer, and analyze that. Then I will compare both and see if his perspective was the same as mine. the reason why I'm doing this is so that I can have a better understanding of what the song feels like by looking at how he embodies the song since I can't hear everything the song says.

I noticed that this song can be compared to the poems because there's rhyme and then there's the innuendo. If You Seek Amy translates to "F U C K ME". That obviously means that this song is about sex and there are other mentions in this song that relates to that. There is also repetition that emphasizes the point that if all the boys and all the girls see her then they would hate her. The idea of a pretty girl that everyone hates because they love her. Sound is used in this song because the sound of how things are pronounced allows for different translations. Such as the phrase "If You Seek Amy".

This is the video with the song and lyrics.

This is the video by Chase (the guy's name) interpreted in ASL.

Hope you enjoyed this interpretation of the song. I love this song because of how funny the message is about sex and pretty girls getting what they want.

Greetings everyone

Hello readers.

This blog will be about my journey through a course I'm taking for my major. It's interesting and I hope I will be interesting enough for people to read my posts.

My name is Alicia and I am from California. I am deaf and I was raised in the hearing community. I'm always going to be in the hearing community, but I was finally a part of the deaf community when I started taking ASL classes during high school.

My passion is to teach English. Before, I was willing to teach hearing students but I realized that would be too much stress on me and I realized that Deaf and Hard of Hearing students need more support for their English skills. I've noticed that a lot of teachers that my deaf and hard of hearing friends had were babying them, allowing them to pass when they weren't prepared to pass the class. They weren't able to learn what they needed to improve on because they thought it was better for them to just pass the class. I want them to feel confident about themselves and be able to feel more comfortable with who they are among hearing people. After all, English is the primary language that hearing people use.

I love to read even though school keeps me from enjoying my reading. I enjoy learning about the different kinds of readings that I wasn't exposed to as much during my younger years. As I move along in college, I am realizing that there is a lot of literature out there that I want to read. So with the use of my Kindle and hopefully browsing through bookstores, if they're still out there, I will be able to expand my mind with all sorts of literature.

I hope that this blog will allow for me to express myself as I go on this journey of learning more about how literature, media, technology, and others can be applied to the education system.