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February 28 Blog 1

Page history last edited by PBworks 17 years ago

Defining Jessica.

 

Jessica Jes-i-kuhnoun: 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

 

SM Remix

 

Jess Remix

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