Creative WritingWarm Ups, Week 12

MondayPoetry--pantoums

"The Larger Bowl (A Pantoum)“By Rush

If we're so much the same like I always hear (1)Why such different fortunes and fates? (2)

Some of us live in a cloud of fear (3)Some live behind iron gates (4)

Why such different fortunes and fates? (5)Some are blessed and some are cursed (6)

Some live behind iron gates (7)While others only see the worst (8)

Some are blessed and some are cursed (9)The golden one or scarred from birth (10)

While others only see the worst (11)Such a lot of pain on the earth (12)

The golden one or scarred from birth (13)Somethings can never be changed (14)

Such a lot of pain on this earth (15)It's somehow so badly arranged (16)

Somethings can never be changed (17)Some reasons will never come clear (18)

It's somehow so badly arranged (19)If we're so much the same like I always hear (20)

Some are blessed and some are cursed (21)The golden one or scarred from birth (22)

While others only see the worst (23)Such a lot of pain on the earth (24)

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TuesdayPoetry--Sonnets

Warm UpWrite a poem about a character who can’t

laugh.

The SonnetShakespearean Sonnet: A “sonnet” is a

fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter. The English or Shakespearean sonnet consists of three quatrains (four-line stanzas) and a couplet (two lines) with a distinct rhyming pattern.

The SonnetWilliam Shakespeare

“Sonnet 130”My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; aCoral is far more red than her lips’ red. bIf snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; aIf hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. bI have seen roses damasked, red and white, cBut no such roses see I in her cheeks; dAnd in some perfumes is there more delight cThan in the breath that from my mistress reeks. dI love to hear her speak, yet well I know eThat music hath a far more pleasing sound. fI grant I never saw a goddess go: eMy mistress when she walks treads on the ground. f And yet, by heaven I think my love as rare g As any she belied with false compare. g

Iambic meterShakespeare's predominant meter was iambic. A unit

of iambic meter, called an iambic foot, consists of a soft stress followed by a sharp one: da-DUM. (A good example of an everyday word that acts as an iambic foot is toDAY.)

Shakespeare wrote most of his poetry in iambic pentameter, five units of iambic beat to a line:

"But SOFT, what LIGHT through YONder WINdow BREAKS."daDUM daDUM daDUM daDUM daDUM

The SonnetComposed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802

William Wordsworth, 1770 - 1850Earth has not anything to show more fair:

Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty:

This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,

Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky;

All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep

In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will:

Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!

Thursday (no class Wed)Free work day (due to morning testing)

FridayNo school—professional day