Poetry snippets about nature and seasons
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An exercise in poetic form.
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- 3. so much depends upon a red wheelbarrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens
Editor's Notes
- This is the “quiz,” and I pass it out even though that’s not necessary. It could also appear on the projector. Do note that I have not only delineated the poems, I have also removed most (but not all) punctuation, and I have included the Microsoft word error marks and set up the font as lack uniformity or consistency. I want to make these appear as unpoetic as possible.
- I mainly use this poem as an example of the way I’ve formatted the poems I’ve handed out – that is, I’ve delineated them. This begs the question whether a poem needs line breaks to be a poem.
- This poem serves as a prime example, for students, of a poem that challenges our definition of what poetry is. I ask: why? It doesn’t rhyme, there’s nothing particularly emotional, it’s too short, etc. etc.
- Now I go back over the “quiz,” and ask them which ones they chose and why.
- Now I show them where I got these poems from in the slides that follow
- Finally, we discuss Williams’ poem. What makes it a poem?