Defining Jessica.
Jessica Jes-i-kuh –noun: multi-talented; sees things that can be turned into art; able to paint interesting pieces of art; paints things seen in everyday life.
Started this project thinking I knew what the hell I was doing...Guess not so let me try again.
Don't panic, stay with it, it will grow -shareriff
Defining Poetry
I'm tired of writing in prose
So here it goes
I'm gonna define poetry
Using poetry
Poetry can be traced back farther
Trace it back as far as you can
Beowulf and the Anglo-Saxons
I start here
Because that is where I know to begin
Oral to written
Lost in translation
Begin by writing down our verbal patterns
See the rhythms
Notice the patterns
Watch it all connect
wæs se grimma gæst Grendel haten
Read it
Immerse yourself
Cheer Beowulf; Damn Grendel
Applaud Grendel; Hate Beowulf
Understand they are the same
Understand that they are a dyad
Listen and see the Celtic knot work that the poet weaves
Song and story now sounded together
as Hrothgar's bard declaimed over benches
a tale often told when hard was held
This is the beginning
The orature proceeding the literature
Loop it out find the link
Link it to Dragons and Monsters
Green Monsters
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Green Monster in Arther's court
Come into Arther's court and see
The oral tradition has not died
Hundreds of years later the status is quo
it pleased him not to eat
upon festival so fair, ere he first were apprised
of some strange story or stirring adventure
See the rhythms
Notice the patterns
Watch it all connect
Whose the scope?
Gawain, Lord Bercalac, the old wench
Understand the context
Understand courtly love
A kiss for a kiss
A bond for thy word
Break that word and you have literature
Give the orature rhythm and rhyme
Falsify a story and add depth
Add Giant Green monsters
and a fantastic story
Teach a lesson
Add a moral
An Oral Moral
Teach the reader
Teach the listener
Whan that April with his showres soote
The droughte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veine in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flowr
Mix it
Remix it
When April with his showers sweet with fruit
The drought of March has pierced unto the root
And bathed each vein with liquor that has power
To generate therein and sire the flower;
Notice the difference
Notice the translation
Yet both true meanings are lost
Lost in the reading of an oral text
But this is how poetry evolves
All the characters and Chaucer
Join hands in the Oral tradition
But Chaucer's composure of the tale
In that lies mastery
Mastery lies
Mastered lies
Shaping the tales
Retelling the orature
Shaping the Story to teach a moral tale
Or to teach an entertaining moral
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