The Metapoem Assignment!
English 3 Honors
Write
as you will
In whatever style you like
Too much blood has run under the bridge
To go on believing
That only one road is right.
In
poetry everything is permitted.
With
only this condition of course:
You have to improve the blank page.
Your
Assignment:
Create your own metapoem. Perhaps
you can come up with a wonderful extended metaphor about poetry. Perhaps you write to make a comment on
writing. Perhaps you will write about
your struggle to find the perfect word or the joy of completion or the way that
the poem sometimes seems to write itself.
Perhaps you will write about something else entirely. But the assignment requires that you write a
poem about poetry, subject to the condition listed in Nicanor
Parra’s poem above.
When you have
written it, give it a title. Then go to
the bulletin board and post it there in the forum called “Metapoems.” After the poem, in the same post, include a
paragraph or two exploring the concept, symbol,, metaphor or whatever you were
trying to get across. Use as your
subject line the title of your poem and the author, as in: “My Metapoem” by Joe LaPoet.
This post is due
by Monday’s class.