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NEW POETRY CLUB
NEW POETRY CLUB 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, so this is the second poetry club I've created. The last poetry club got through three poems before it died...but it had an AMAZING discussion, especially on the poem "A Dream Within a Dream" by Edgar Allen Poe. If you want to join the poetry club, first please find time to read the discussion for that poem, found on pages four through six. It really was an amazing, deep discussion. Here is the link: http://www.cricketmagkids.com/chatterbox/inkwell/node/176516?page=3
NOTE: It is never too late to join. Anyone can drop in at any time.
Anyway, let's get started! Here is how it will work, for now.
In a nutshell: we choose a poet and one of their poems, discuss it, then at some point, once we've had a good discussion, a prompt will be given and we will write our own poems based on the prompt, which will relate to the poem. Or it may simply say, "Write a poem inspired by this one." Then, once we've done all that, we move on to a new poem.
First, we vote on a poet. You can start listing ideas for nominations. At some point, I'll lsit all the nominees, we vote, majority wins.
Whichever poet we choose, we will start out with one of their poems. if you don't mind, I would like to post the first poem. After that, whoever wants to post the poem can do so.
Once the poem is posted, a schedule will be made, resembling something like this:
1. Share the poem. (READ)
2. Vocab Person, define words. (DEFINE)
3. Discuss the poem, its meaning, its feeling, how we would have changed it, whatever you want to discuss about it! (DISCUSS)
4. Prompts are given, we discuss it and write our own poems. (WRITE)
5. Discuss each other's poems, compare it, etc. (WRITE)
If you're wondering what Vocab Person is, that's if one of you would like to volunteer for listing any possibly unknown words (not necessarily words you don't know, but words somebody else might not know) and their definition. That would help to understand the poem.
So, please join! Even if you won't be able to be extremely devoted to it...the more people the better!
-Owlgirl
submitted by Owlgirl
(April 14, 2016 - 7:39 pm)
(April 14, 2016 - 7:39 pm)
this is a good idea! i will join this. I will think of some good poems and post my suggestions later.
(April 14, 2016 - 10:36 pm)
Count me in!!! (Although, I was in the first poetry club, but hey, I loved it!!! I'm glad you made this again Owlgirl!!)
(April 14, 2016 - 10:36 pm)
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(April 16, 2016 - 7:10 am)
I'm joining!
(April 16, 2016 - 7:17 am)
Oh, good, this did show up after all!
Here are some poet suggestions we got last time but never really got to follow through on....
Emily Dickinson
Mary Oliver
Lewis Carroll
Langston Hughes
Maya Angelou
Edgar Allen Poe
Any of these stand out to you? Any you would like to add?
And remember, you don't have to vote for the ones you've read the most poetry of. Sometimes it's fun just to Google a poet, read one of their poems for the first time, and vote for it becasue this might be a fun new experience for you.
(April 16, 2016 - 7:51 am)
Yay, I was in the last poetry club and I LOVED it! So glad you decided to start it up again!
If you don't mind, I shall volunteer to be Vocab Person (again) because I like looking up words. (Dictionary Nerd!)
(April 16, 2016 - 7:53 am)
I think I will join this. I may not be able to post all the time, but I will try to say something about whatever poem we pick. I know, I'm not on the CB a lot. I usually don't partake in roleplays because I never have time.
But a poetry club...this sounds pretty cool.
I suggest maybe Frost or Dickinson?
(April 16, 2016 - 7:56 am)
And by the way, I read the discussion on a dream within a dream.
Wow! That really is amazing discussion. I was having a hard time grasping that you guys were twelve and ten and eleven or so. Really deep interpretation!
(April 16, 2016 - 7:58 am)
As for which poets I nominate: Maya Angelou and Emily Dickinson. And maybe Tennyson.
But especially the first two, because Angelou writes modern enough for us to understand and deep enough to discuss a lot. Dickinson writes lots of nice poems, and I think in addition to discussing the meaning, we could discuss the rhyme scheme too.
(April 16, 2016 - 8:01 am)
Actually I take back Dickinson. I'm not sure her poems are all that meaningful.
(April 16, 2016 - 8:02 am)
OOOOH! Mary Oliver! And Barbara Groce (she wrote The Dancing Years. BEAUTIFUL poems).
(April 16, 2016 - 10:13 am)
This looks cool. I'd love to be part of this. I'm a huge Frost fan personally. I also think it would be cool if we looked at some modern poems but I'm fine with anything.
(April 16, 2016 - 2:28 pm)
(April 16, 2016 - 2:47 pm)
Status update #1!
(You will find that I am very fond of making lists and status updates.)
By the way, we will start once we have ten poeple.
Members (8)
Owlgirl
Regina
Joan B of Arc
Xin-xin
Hermione A
Hootsie
Rose bud
SmolBean
Poet Nominations (8)
Emily Dickinson
Mary Oliver
Robert Frost
Maya Angelou
Tennyson
Barbara Groce
Edgar Allen Poe
Lewis Carroll
(April 16, 2016 - 5:32 pm)
(April 16, 2016 - 5:33 pm)