Writing in a Box (or not)
This week we are going to do something different. Rather than write about poetry on the Message Board, you are going to put your poetry on the Message Board (no, not any poetry; there are specific instructions below).
Special Note: this week you do not have to respond to other postings on the Message Board to earn the full 20/20 points (though feel free to responsd if you like :)
This week you looked at sound and form--two important elements to consider in many (not all) poems. Even so-called "free" poetry, such as e e cummings's "l(a", often has intentional form. But we are going to work with a more-traditional, closed form, the haiku.
The rules for haiku were in this week's lecture, and you looked at several examples.
Here is your task:
Write a suite of (at least five) haiku. They should all be somehow related (four sports haiku, six haiku on family, five haiku realting to a backpacking trip of Yosemite, etc.). You may even tell a story (briefly) having each haiku show a key scene/event sequentially (the stages of a relationship, for example).
Heck, if you want to go for broke, see if you can re-tell any of the readings on our reading list in a handful of haiku (retelling Station Eleven in half a dozen haiku would be quite a challenge).
Note: be sure that you actually do know the rules for writing haiku. You can look on the Web, review the lecture, even revisit "Beavis and Butthead." Form and content both count.