This was an excellent poem Isabel! You definitely channelled the energy and language of Wilfred Owen. Your choice of words, like Owen, was chosen exceptionally well and produced some amazing imagery. https://isabeltomablog.wordpress.com/blog-2/
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2/ Near the end of Eliot’s “The Waste Land” he writes
“These fragments I have shored against my ruin”. In the spirit of Eliot’s vision of the world, write a poem or a short prose passage that uses this line as its opening. These fragments I have shored against my ruin. I gather the shards of mana, delicately and place them into my basket. I lookContinueContinue reading “2/ Near the end of Eliot’s “The Waste Land” he writes”
Peer review 1
Extremely thorough analysis of the play! It was interesting to see this blog post as a video, particularly with a poem quite so evocative as Anthem For Doomed Youth. Despite the fact that this medium may have been harder than writing a blog post there was still significant depth in the discussion of the poem.ContinueContinue reading “Peer review 1”
Write a letter to Sassoon or Owen telling them that their vision, their ideas are still sorely needed in the world today.
Dear Mr Owen, I kindly implore you to return to the land of the living if it’s within your power, as your keen insight and mind are sorely needed in the world today. The world today is ripe with issues that I’m sure you would, similarly to me, experience a great distaste for. We areContinueContinue reading “Write a letter to Sassoon or Owen telling them that their vision, their ideas are still sorely needed in the world today.”
An ekphrastic poem is a poem that vividly describes a painting, such as X.J. Kennedy’s poem “Nude Descending a Staircase” (refer to slides for lecture in Week 2). Try to write your own ekphrastic poem with reference to any one of the paintings shown to you during lectures in the first two weeks. Include an image of the painting in your blog.
We rigid five stand frozen in time Our shapely feminine bodies call to you Clothes strewn about the floor Our eyes beckon any who dare lie with us. Ready to commit any act of depravity you choose We are unique, yet you see no difference Our colour is faded, weathered and aged We were onceContinueContinue reading “An ekphrastic poem is a poem that vividly describes a painting, such as X.J. Kennedy’s poem “Nude Descending a Staircase” (refer to slides for lecture in Week 2). Try to write your own ekphrastic poem with reference to any one of the paintings shown to you during lectures in the first two weeks. Include an image of the painting in your blog.”
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