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If I knew where poetry came from, I’d go there. - Michael Longley

If I knew where poetry came from, I’d go there. - Michael Longley. Reader - Response Theory We respond to literature 1. Life experiences 2. Literary experiences. Judging poetry is like judging wine.

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If I knew where poetry came from, I’d go there. - Michael Longley

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  1. If I knew where poetry came from, I’d go there. -Michael Longley

  2. Reader-Response TheoryWe respond to literature1. Life experiences2. Literary experiences

  3. Judging poetry is like judging wine. Don’t pretend to like something you don’t like. Don’t be afraid to admit liking what you do. Don’t slam the door either. Leave room for a poem to grow on you. Ask questions. Think about how the poem connects to you or someone else. Compare ideas.

  4. Questions about poetry?1. Is the poem’s purpose accomplished?2. Are their excess words? Inexact? 3. Is the language fresh or canned?

  5. Inferior Poetry, generally is: 1. Sentimental—indulges in emotion for its own sake, expresses more emotion than an occasion warrants. Gushy. Oversimplifies. Is unfaithful to the complexities of human experience

  6. Rhetorical—glittering language, spewing of language without reality of thought or emotion underneath. “whereat with blade, with bloody, blameful blade, / He bravely broached his boiling bloody breast.” 3. Didactic—preachy, moralistic; use as a vehicle to teach something overrides poetry, leaving flat diction, lack of specific situation…

  7. God’s Will for You and Me Just to be tender, just to be true, Just to be glad the whole day through, Just to be merciful, just to be mild, Just to be trustful as a child, Just to be gentle and kind and sweet, Just to be helpful with willing feet, Just to be cheery when things go wrong, Just to drive sadness away with a song, Whether the hour is dark or bright, Just to be loyal to God and right, Just to believe that God knows best, Just in his promises ever to rest— Just to let love be our daily key, That is God’s will for you and me.

  8. Pied Beauty Glory be to God for dappled things— For skies of couple-color as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow and plow; And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim. All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him.

  9. Why Bother With Poetry? 1. Develop language skills 2. Emotional intelligence 3. Holistic– how it’s said, context Face the world– see through other’s eyes… When might we use poetry?

  10. “Poetry is not just words, but ____ for the cold, ____ let down to the lost, and _____ in the pockets of the hungry.”

  11. The Journey One day you finally knewwhat you had to do, and began,though the voices around youkept shoutingtheir bad advice--though the whole housebegan to trembleand you felt the old tugat your ankles."Mend my life!"each voice cried.But you didn't stop.You knew what you had to do,though the wind priedwith its stiff fingersat the very foundations,though their melancholywas terrible.

  12. It was already lateenough, and a wild night,and the road full of fallenbranches and stones.But little by little,as you left their voices behind,the stars began to burnthrough the sheets of clouds,and there was a new voicewhich you slowlyrecognized as your own,that kept you companyas you strode deeper and deeperinto the world,determined to dothe only thing you could do--determined to savethe only life you could save. Mary Oliver

  13. The BIG FIVE Elements of Poetry • Speaker– • Diction— • Imagery– • Rhythm and Sound– • Structure–

  14. Inspiration to write comes from:1. experience2. other literature3. memory4. imagination

  15. Well, Black Fox off on the edge of the poplars in the snow,are you too wild to admit it is Christmas?Too cagey, bad word, cage, for the silent dark that movesagainst the silent white where color under the snow lightis a matter of the red, tiny, high bush cranberriesI know you are out thereand see you--with my eyes closedand can scent your deep mother's smelland my fingers are stinging fromthe sleek, smooth touch of your pelt Lurk there, or haunt--there, that's the better wordHaunt, hunt in the snow beneath the branchesof the white hooded pine treesand revel in the new moon and the WordYou are blessed, creature of light, even moon lightstar light and the light that rises from the snow itselfYou are blessed, hailed, full of grace,and I know you are there and so, in my blessing, love,may you sleep in peace--I know you hear me dreaming. -Rick Watson

  16. How do we become writers?1. Pay attention– look closely at your life. Read and listen attentively. *Try this critical response tool: Notice-Remind-Feel-Question- and Speculate.

  17. We need inspiration to live.Inspire: to breathe

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