ASSIGNMENT

Read and listen to many kinds of poems.

For this assignment, you will need to choose four poems from class to imitate (write your own version).

Identify at least one move that poem makes (more is better) and try it out in your own original poem. Be creative with this—maybe you’ll want to imitate a particular form or structure, or a kind of language, a certain kind of emotional tension, that sort of thing. With each imitation, be sure to include a separate one paragraph statement that explains what strategy or strategies you’re imitating from the chosen poem and what affects you hope your own poem achieves.