We debated words that we liked because of the sound or meaning - mine were fun, kind, crackle, sparkle, cartridge paper (for its meaning - the grade of paper used to make cartridges to hold shot for a gun!). Different people's words were categorised into visual, descriptive, beautiful, simple, memories, frequency. We were advised to take time to look - then the descriptive words come.
We looked at Joe Brainard's poem I Remember. It uses a lot of anaphora (repetition of a word or phrase), uses lists and repeats. Class had to write a poem of their own inspired by repeated phrases. I focussed the 'I remember'.
Teenage Angst
I remember the green and white tweed trousers my Mother bought me.
I remember I wanted to be like my mates.
I wanted tight blue jeans.
She’d spent my clothing allowance -
in the Sale -
on these hideous, bottle green and white, tweed, baggy trousers.
I remember the angst of wearing those hated trousers.
I wanted to be trendy.
But I wore frumpy, scratchy, baggy, hideous trousers.
I wanted to be trendy.
I remember the embarrassment.
I remember my Mother’s pride.
“They were such a bargain”.
“You’ll look ever so nice!"
I hated those trousers.
Who chose bottle green and white?
I remember her puzzlement at me not wanting to wear them.
“But you look ever so nice in them”.
Then we passed round a bag containing objects, and chose one blind. I got a necklace - wooden spiral motif. We had to write a poem using simile or metaphor. (Ironing by Vicky Feaver, and You're by Sylvia Plath)
Necklace
Worn around the neck
as a sign of significance
Multiple laces like black liquorice
but inedible as electrical wiring
A coil of carved wood
as solid as a rock
Twisted, spiralled like an ammonite
Simple fastening - wooden button,
fixed with a string tangle,
as secure as a glover's knot.
Great class. Throughly enjoyed it. Roll on next Sunday.
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