For Tuesday, you can skip the long poem that solely comprises Part Four, even though it's a very interesting poem. For now, though, let's just read through some of the poems in Part Five, which will be our last official day on American Journal before the paper is due--so hopefully it will give you some ideas.
We'll do an in-class writing when you arrive over some idea(s) from the poems. Instead of focusing on a single poem this time, here are some ideas you might consider:
* Poems that employ intertextuality, which means they evoke or invoke a work outside of the text--either a different type of writing or poem, or something that the poem is somehow communicating with.
* Poems that invoke a different voice than the person speaking the poem, often in italics, that suggests the poem is a composite of different times and conversations.
* Different genres of poetry: elegies, odes, ekphrastic poetry, etc.
See you in class! Enjoy the three-day weekend!
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