Monday, November 30 th

1. Monday, November 30th • Bellwork: Grammar S-V Review • On DyKnow • Pick up your Reader’s Notebook • Poetry Reading Workshop • RN 246-251: “Concrete Mixers,” “The City Is So Big,” and “Harlem Night Song” (ELL 210-215) • Poetry Writing Workshop • Creating a Poem with Imagery, Emotion, and Music • Ode Poem • Spelling Bee? Homework: Finish Ode Poem

2. Poetry • Three pillars of poetry: • Imagery • Emotion • Music

3. Poems Night Who picked up a needle to sew a moon and some stars on the blanket of night? -Jarod Hamster, by Brenda My hamster died on a Saturday. I touched him. He didn’t squirm. He died without telling me. My hamster died on a Saturday. Wind The calendar says it’s almost spring but the wind pretends not to know. It reaches with icy hands inside my coat to rattle my ribs. It whispers past my numb red ears, a blur of words, too fast, too low.

4. Odes “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” by John Keats “Ode to Clothes,” by Pablo Neruda “Ode to an Artichoke,” by Pablo Neruda “Ode to the Piano,” by Pablo Neruda

5. Tips for Neruda-esque Odes Choose a subject you have strong feelings about. Describe the subject inside and out. Exaggerate its admirable qualities, until it seems to become central to human existence. Tap all five senses. Use metaphors and similes. Perhaps directly address the subject of the ode. Tell your feelings about the subject and give exalted descriptions of its qualities: a balance. Keep the lines short. Choose strong words: language that’s packed with meaning and cuts to the bone.