I will be posting revised versions of some of the papers I've written for English so far. I thought Daniel over at Too New to Handle? explained the assignment well, so I decided to quote him.
- John
From "Individual Poetry Project: Intro" on Too New to Handle?:
Over the past month or so, our class has been working on a variety of poetry-themed projects. One of these
was the Individual Poet Project, in which each of us as students selected a contemporary American poet
and basically immersed ourselves in his/her life and work, focusing specifically on one (non-
compilation/"selected works"-type) book by that author.
The project evolved in its details as we progressed, and ended up consisting of four papers:
1. An analysis of a shorter poem from the selected volume of poetry
2. A biography of our chosen author.
3. Another poem analysis, this time focusing on the poem relates to the overall book and its themes.
4. A final, more detailed review of the volume.
To fulfill the details of this assignment, I'll be posting slightly revised versions of all four papers on this blog
for your reading pleasure. Enjoy! (Driver 1)
Works Cited
Driver, Daniel. "Individual Poetry Project: Intro." Too New to Handle?. 1. Blogger. Web. 24 Mar. 2011.
I am aware the long quote and Works Cited portions are improperly formatted, but HTML condenses tabs and spaces. Please forgive me.
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ReplyDeleteJohn, like the way you cited your fellow student here. Daniel did indeed do a good job of stating the assignment succinctly!
ReplyDeleteP.S.--If you made those pies in your profile picture, I am impressed. You might enjoy Grace Paley's poem about pie-baking, "The Poet's Occasional Alternative," which was published on The Writer's Almanac in 2004. http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2004/12/11
Ann, thanks for the tip. I did in fact make those pies for Thanksgiving this year. I enjoyed the line "of course the pie was a final draft." When making pies it'd be nice to have the ability to make rough drafts before the final version came out of the oven. Paley points out this is possible with poems, but I don't think she is exactly reveling in the tedium of the process.
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