Theme: Narcissus and Echo, Death and Afterlife.
Objective: Write two, five stanza poems, where each team member is responsible for a stanza.
In the First Poem the A lines should be perfect or true rhyme(ex Death/Breath, Apple/Chapel, Rhyme/Time) So lines 1 and 4 of each stanza will rhyme, lines 2 and 3 are up to you and your team. This is the Narcissus perspective. Write the poem from the point of view of a man who has lost his wife and doesn't believe in the afterlife.
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The Second Poem relies on the end rhyme you chose for the first poem, though the rhyme shouldn't be true rhyme, but half/slant/imperfect rhyme(ex Death/Deaf, Apple/People, Rhyme/Sign) This is the Echo perspective. Write the poem from the dead wife's perspective. She's with him, he doesn't know she's there.
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The poems will be judged on how well each team conveys a unified work, the quality of the poems, and on how creative each team gets with the Greek or Ovidian myth.
http://rhymezone.com/ May have both types of rhymes you'll need, if you're the sort of poet who doesn't have a wealth of words stored away.
There are rhymes that are questionable like Apple/Grapple, Ear/Hear, Rhyme/Sign, you could make an argument for perfect or imperfect/improper. I'll let stuff like that slide for either poem. It's more important that you know that if the first and fourth lines of your first poem end with 'Apple/Grapple' the second and third lines of your second poem should be half-rhymes of 'Apple/Grapple'. So if you have 'Steeple' and 'People' as half rhymes of 'Apple/Grapple' you can have true rhyme in the second poem, it's up to you. Just think about the myth.
Good Luck. Any questions, just post them in this thread.
Objective: Write two, five stanza poems, where each team member is responsible for a stanza.
In the First Poem the A lines should be perfect or true rhyme(ex Death/Breath, Apple/Chapel, Rhyme/Time) So lines 1 and 4 of each stanza will rhyme, lines 2 and 3 are up to you and your team. This is the Narcissus perspective. Write the poem from the point of view of a man who has lost his wife and doesn't believe in the afterlife.
A
x
x
A
The Second Poem relies on the end rhyme you chose for the first poem, though the rhyme shouldn't be true rhyme, but half/slant/imperfect rhyme(ex Death/Deaf, Apple/People, Rhyme/Sign) This is the Echo perspective. Write the poem from the dead wife's perspective. She's with him, he doesn't know she's there.
x
A/
A/
x
The poems will be judged on how well each team conveys a unified work, the quality of the poems, and on how creative each team gets with the Greek or Ovidian myth.
http://rhymezone.com/ May have both types of rhymes you'll need, if you're the sort of poet who doesn't have a wealth of words stored away.
There are rhymes that are questionable like Apple/Grapple, Ear/Hear, Rhyme/Sign, you could make an argument for perfect or imperfect/improper. I'll let stuff like that slide for either poem. It's more important that you know that if the first and fourth lines of your first poem end with 'Apple/Grapple' the second and third lines of your second poem should be half-rhymes of 'Apple/Grapple'. So if you have 'Steeple' and 'People' as half rhymes of 'Apple/Grapple' you can have true rhyme in the second poem, it's up to you. Just think about the myth.
Good Luck. Any questions, just post them in this thread.
