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

2. 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.)

3. Shakespeare
All is lost To prayers

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

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

6. Art Imitates Art Manzini 2010
Poets and Painters
Art Imitates Art
Manzini 2010

7. Nude Descending a Staircase
By Marcel Duchamp

8. Carnival Evening
By Henri Rousseau

9. Half Past Three (The Poet)
By Marc Chagall

10. The Fall of Icarus
By Pieter Bruegel

11. The Figure 5 in Gold, 1928
By Charles Demuth

12. 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.

13. 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
( ) Sour Grapes: A Book of Poems Four Seas Company, Boston, 1921

14. Water Lilies (The Clouds), 1903
By Claude Monet

15. Charles Burchfield

16. November Sun Emerging, 1956-59
By Charles Burchfield

17. Mark Rothko
White Center,
1950,

18. 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.

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

20. 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