Topic: Prosody Workshop 1

Due Today: Ex 1-3: Short Story Draft

Length: 3-4 pages. (Please do not go over this limit.)

Assigned Text: Poetry Selections

"Happy Thought" by Robert Louis Stevens
"The Swing" by Robert Louis Stevens
"Trees" by Joyce Kilmer

"The Turtle" by Vachel Lindsay
"The Turtle" by Ogden Nash

Topic: Blank Verse Workshop

Rescheduled from Feb 26.

Write ten-beat lines of verse, like Shakespeare wrote.
But lazy poets, do not fill your lines
With really wasteful words that just fill space
In order to repeat a point you've made,
Or words transpos'd, poetic more to seem.
Like this, who speaks? Like Yoda will you sound.

Yet rhymeless soul-pack'd verse astounds the mind.
It echoes common speech you hear all day
Then surges up to soar with metaphor
And crashes, lashing out with sputt'ring rage.