Thursday, February 24, 2011

Let's enjamb!

Take the following paragraph and put in line breaks to make it into a poem. Be sure to enjamb at least two of your lines!

The clashes and groans from the lake continued unabated, dreadful at night, and the sound of the night wind in the mountains was like one long indrawn breath. Downstairs the flood bumped and fumbled like a blind man in a strange house, but outside it hissed and trickled, like the pressure of water against your eardrums, and like the sounds you hear in the moment before you faint.

(from Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping)

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Odes


This "ode" is funny and ironic in tone. The subject is a sweater vest. I'd say the theme is the uselessness of some fashion trends. The form is a blank verse poem. Find an ode on your own and list the link or copy and paste the ode into your comment field. Tell us the tone, subject, form, and theme of the ode. What is your ode praising?