Adieu to Poetry!

Since there is no class on Monday, Wednesday (tomorrow) is the last  day to have your poems critiqued before your portfolio is due. Your portfolios are due Wednesday, October 3. Your portfolios should include three poems, each imitating a different kind of poem that we went over in class. If you've been doing all the assignments you should've written five different kinds of poems by now. You'll choose your best three and turn them in a week from tomorrow.

After you turn in your poems next Wednesday we will start the last half of this course, which deals with writing fiction. You'll be reading, analyzing and eventually writing your own short stories. I'm going to be posting a bunch of different fiction handouts at the end of this post. Please print them and bring them to class next Wednesday.

Intro to Fiction

Oscillation

Openings

Character

Story Analysis Questions

For class on Wednesday, please be ready to turn in analysis questions for Dog-Boy and You Don't Know What Love Is. You Don't Know What Love Is is a poem written about a conversation Carver had with Charles Bukowski. Bukowski was one of the best-selling poets of the 20th century. He was also an alcoholic. Keep that in mind when you are thinking about the poem.

You can find the analysis questions in the packet here.

Please bring in poems to critique, too!

Handouts

Please read through all of these lectures/poems (you may have already read some of them) and be ready to discuss them on Monday. Also, be sure to have a poem ready to be critiqued. Everyone have a great weekend!

A Marriage of Random Things Not Sought-This is the marriage poem we went over in class tonight.

List Poem Lecture-This is the handout that covers list poems.

Dramatic Monologue Lecture-This is the handout that covers dramatic monologues.

Dog-Boy-An example of a dramatic monologue poem.

You Don’t Know What Love Is-Another example of a dramatic monologue poem.

Intro

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