Poem revisions for tonight

With the feedback received from your peers, please revise the poems written last night. If possible, please type them and attach the first draft with the revised draft as well as your picture.

Also make sure to write a reflection on the draft about your experience with this poem. How was it mimicing an author and then having to revise. Did you like reading the work of your classmates? Did you get valuable feedback?

Homework for Tuesday due Wednesday, 12/17

Write a poem with a transcendental theme in the style of Whitman. Find a picture for the inspiration, these will be shared in class tomorrow.

Use Whitman's poem as a "mentor" text - mimic or imitate the style Whitman uses in your own work.

Then reflect on the experience on this blog - is it hard to imitate some one else's style?

Walt Whitman - Modern poet?

http://www.etsu.edu/writing/mo&pomo/whitman/
Go to the blog – read the handout and/or go on the website with a partner and read the links – explore with a partner and take notes in your sourcebook.
1. What are the characteristics of Whitman’s writing?
2. What influence has Whitman’s writing had?
3. What makes Whitman a “modern” poet?
4. What makes him a transcendental writer?
5. What did Emerson have to say about Whitman’s writing as per his letter to him after it was first published? http://lcweb2.loc.gov/learn/collections/ww/langarts.html

Post one comment to this post that you found interesting about Whitman that continues to make Whitman relevant to readers today.