Maureen Thorson’s NaPoWriMo prompt: “Find an Emily Dickinson poem – preferably one you’ve never previously read – and take out all the dashes and line breaks. Make it just one big block of prose. Now, rebreak the lines. Add words where you want. Take out some words. Make your own poem out of it!” Robert Lee Brewer’s Poem-a-Day prompt: “take the phrase ‘What (blank),’ replace the blank with a new word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. Possible titles might include: ‘What Are You Doing Here,’ 'What a Great Time,’ ‘Whatever You Say,' and/or ‘What Kind of Poem Are You Going to Write?’” The Dickinson poem I'm altering is "Wild nights - Wild nights! (269)." Again, both prompts, slapstick. What Greens? The Dickinson poem Alan is working with is Come slowly - Eden! (205). About his poem today, Alan says “Dickinson's ‘Come slowly — Eden!’ mistakenly refers to the worker bee as a male. This poem addresses that error.” What Did Dickinson Know? Here's a little caricature of how I imagine Emily Dickinson might look if she could read our alterations of her poems. This is based rather loosely on the only authenticated photograph of her. Wikipedia has a list of all Emily Dickinson's poems, almost 1800 of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Emily_Dickinson_poems Have fun checking them out! Friends, won’t you comment, please? Love to know what you’re thinking. Thanks! Ingat, everyone. ヅ |
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2 comments:
Haha -two good ones today. Alan, that poem took an unexpected sensual turn. Emily, you minx!
Bruce, thanks! I just wrote a comment on your poem today. Very interesting ED poem you picked.
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