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Form: A minimum of twenty lines of blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter with occasional--and necessary--enjambment). Theme: Someone in your family looks at the season. Use a three part organization. Let the speaker describe a scene, which then triggers a meditation on something in the speaker's experience, which in turn enables the speaker to return to the initial scene with a sense of resolution or deeper understanding. The poem should close with a reference to the place where the poems begins, which has been implicitly altered by the meditation that intervenes. Method: Begin with a 300-600 word prose draft. This is more important than in the previous poem, as it is part of your task to incorporate in this poem some of the digressiveness of prose into the three-part organization. Restrictions: Avoid more than two end-stopped lines in sequence. Readings: Strand and Boland, 101-105 Tennyson, Tithonus |