Week 5 Assignments and Activities, English homework help

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1. Listen OR Read the podcast script "Words that Shimmer" an interview with poet Elizabeth Alexander. ( LINK below is the interview script)

https://onbeing.org/programs/elizabeth-alexander-w...

(Podcast is attached)

Write a one paragraph reaction to the interview - there's something true for all of us about our experience with poetry - what is it?

2. View Shane Koyczan video of "This is My Voice" Words Aloud 2007, Canada ( FIND IT ONLINE/YOUTUBE) and write a one paragraph response to the video.

3.Compare and contrast; Hart Crane's poem "To Emily Dickinson" ( FIND IT ONLINE) with Billy Collins response "Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes" (FIND IT ONLINE)

A-Start with the respective title of each poem.

B-Consider the imagery of each poem, the tone, the emotional "weather".

C-What is each poet's attitude toward the subject?

4- Consider "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes (FIND IT ONLINE) and "On Being Brought from Africa to America" by Phyllis Wheatley (FIND IT ONLINE)

A-Do the two poets speak with a unified voice? Why or why not?

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Question one
When one reads through the transcript, it raises one fundamental question about poetry, what is
the role of poetry and its universality in telling the reality of human interactions? It is a question
that is answered in different dimensions, and perhaps when the respondent says that ‘…Poetry
has always existed and always existed in a communal context. So I feel like, well, people must
need it because people always did it and never stopped doing it and that part of what people get
from that is the story of who I am and who we are’. Thus it sums up what most people do not
seem to come to grasp on the role of poetry; it is the observation of the everyday lives of
individuals, of their actions, relations, their words and the environment in whi...


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