Time Capsule Assignments Due: Tomorrow 5/1/12 *Remember: No late assignments will be accepted.

Poetry Writing Rough drafts of poems count as warm-ups Final Drafts: Poems are collected in groups of four Each poem is worth a possible 25 points Follow directions (guidelines) for each poem NO RHYME! (We’ll work on rhyme later.)

Shakespeare All is lost To prayers

Warm-up Copy the Following: Found Poem (Words From) “Thinking Pictures” by Alicia Zadrozny Read Magazine. Sept. 18, 2009. Page 28. Arranged by: Your Name

Warm-up Copy the Following: Found Poem (Words From) Zlata’s Diary by Zlata Filipovic Page ______________ Arranged by: Your Name

Art Imitates Art Manzini 2010 Poets and Painters Art Imitates Art Manzini 2010

Nude Descending a Staircase By Marcel Duchamp

Carnival Evening By Henri Rousseau

Half Past Three (The Poet) By Marc Chagall

The Fall of Icarus By Pieter Bruegel

The Figure 5 in Gold, 1928 By Charles Demuth

Art imitates art imitates life imitates art imitates art imitates life imitates… Charles Demuth's painting The Figure 5 in Gold was inspired by the poem “The Great Figure” by William Carlos Williams.

Demuth and Williams Among the rain and lights I saw the figure 5 in gold on a red fire truck moving tense unheeded to gong clangs siren howls and wheels rumbling through the dark city “The Great Figure” William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) Sour Grapes: A Book of Poems Four Seas Company, Boston, 1921

Water Lilies (The Clouds), 1903 By Claude Monet

Charles Burchfield

November Sun Emerging, 1956-59 By Charles Burchfield

Mark Rothko White Center, 1950,

Metaphors Three columns First column: abstract nouns e.g. anger, memory, fear, love, grief, happiness, etc. Second Column: Colors (real or imagined such as “moon-white” Third Column: Visible Things (objects) such as things you see at home, in the sky or at school, from foods to sports, animals or geology, buildings, amusement parks, bodies of water, etc.

Metaphors Love Fire-red milk carton bottle-green star awning

Working with Metaphors Love is a bottle-green star. its orbit slips just out of reach as we tumble forward Immune to gravitational pull our navigational lights flicker an amber oasis In the cool darkness Of our shuttle back and forth our hearts wander through love’s galaxy --S.Manzini 2009