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Read The Prize Winning Poem by
Fleur Adcock
What does it imply about poetry?
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Read the following questions and then analyze
the poem below using them as guide. Write a short esay. (email)
Imagery: How does the imagery construct the
poem’s theme, tone, and purpose?
1. Visuals and Sensory: Are the images literal
or figurative, abstract or concrete? What sensory experiences
are evoked? Are certain images repeated?
2. Metaphor: Does the poet use metaphors to
make comparisons and express images or abstract ideas? Is
there an extended metaphor? What is the effect
of the metaphors on the tone and theme of the poem?
3. Symbolism: Are certain objects or actions
developed in the imagery symbolic of an abstract idea?
The Daffodils by William Wordsworth
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Choose any poem in English.
Work with a partner to analyze its images. (Let me know who your partner is)
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When reading the Prize winning poem, for a while a had the sensation that I was rowing without a fixed skyline because the poem makes that your mind fly and understand or perceive certain ideas about what it is trying to tell you. So your conclusions regarding how magnificient the prize winning poem was, does not have a limit due to it is the perfect poem for the writer. Now, in one of the documents we had to read, I guess it was on the first week, it said that poetry is something that automatically demands freedom to analyse it, imagination, sel-motivation and also confusion . I personally believe thats what this poem implies about poetry, maybe it might not have rhyme or it is not in prose, but the feelings you get after readind it, or if you feelt that while trying to understand the poem you were absorved by all those lines, poetry is fulfilling with its goal as matter of fact it is the magic of poetry implied in the texts.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely agree with Mario in the sense that this poem " the prize winning poem" is full of emotions and let you think for a while about the real meaning of the poem; however, it would be difficult to understand it of course because that is the way poems are. Something that I noticed was the rhyme scheme that was repetitive in many cases. Ricardo Aguilar
ReplyDelete1- No extravagance is needed when the poem touches nerves in the reader.Something that called my attention was this line: “What is required is simply the masterpiece we'd all write if we could.” Then, I thought for a second that we are all capable of writing a Prize-Winning Poem. This piece takes down all the ideas I had of a winner poem. It doesn't need to have the things I thought were needed. It simply implies that as long as we can capture the essence of our feelings in simple, mortal words we, all of us, can write a Prize-Winning Poem. It implies that the heart doesn't need pompous words; it needs simple expression.
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ReplyDeleteThe Prize Winning Poem gives us again another explanation about how we can create a poem. If we read carefully it explains that there is no rule to follow when writing a poem. It says that emotions that are going to be transmitted must be double check because if we want to express something really sad the reader will probably stop reading. The theme does not really matter, but the ways things are put together are. Besides, there is no reason to describe things with fancy words. We can say something very meaningful by using simple words. Leonardo Peña Naranjo
ReplyDeleteWhen I read "the Prize winning poem" first thing this made on me was to clear my vision about what it really means to write poetry. As the author, Fleur Adcock explained , is not necessary to write in verse, choose a romantic theme or one that includes issues of personal life of the writer to get that one reader considers one written document as a poem. On the contrary what is needed is to express feelings as they really feel for any living being.
ReplyDeleteFurthermore, as the author permit to observe what a poet need to write all that he or she wants to write and it is to transform it in a masterpiece because it can ensure the quality of itself.
The Prize-Winning poem shows us how the author describes poetry. For him originality and the way to express feelings, ideas, and emotions is what conform a poem. According to the author, the poem is not based on grammatical structure, using common topics, or life events, but it is the ability to share what comes to your mind and allows different interpretations or perspectives from the readers.
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ReplyDeleteWhen rading this poem the images gotten were exactly the ones the reader was explaining, as if the words were images made by a brush, especially when says "But the vast shipwreck of my life's esteems;" it is an abstract ida maybe a place where noone can go except you, in general most ideas are not that explicit but I get a sense of imagination that at end is worked out by you with the finishing point to make out what is the purpose of it.
What the poem “The Prize-Winning” involved about poetry is the followed elements. First, it is diction. According to the information the teacher gave us, diction is about the poet´s choice of words. So, it is showed that Fleur chose the best words her experience had gotten. Since, she uses alliteration; for example: “It will be typed, of course, and not all in capitals: it will use upper and lower case”. It is the repetition of beginning sounds or words (It will). Also, it is evident the vowel sound “ei” in these lines: “and lower case in the normal way; and where a space is usual it will have a space. It will probably be on white paper ...” Likewise, Fleur applies consonance in this poem; for instance, in this line with the letter “b”, “It will probably be on white paper, or possibly blue, but almost certainly not pink”. In the same way, there is an excellent connotation in the words the author uses in this poem. For example, the word “capitals” in this case it means something important or relevant. Also the word “masterpiece” means another thing like feeling, emotion, effort, etc. Second, it is the sound; this element is in charge of reinforcing the meaning of the words. Therefore, Fleur writes with rime. She uses both internal and end rime. As an example of internal rime there is this line “The poem will not be about feeling lonely and being fifteen...” Similarly, an example of end rime there are the lines which end with the same ending each two lines as “case”, “space”, and “pink” and “ink”. Third, the author enforces her ideas with metaphors. For instance, “The poem will not be about feeling lonely and being fifteen and unless the occasion of the competition is a royal jubilee”. Fleur is comparing emotions and feelings that may be in other poems, but not in this”. Then, the author uses in a special manner the imagery element. Her words have the power to take the reader into many different poems with different styles and themes. This makes the reader to remind a lot of information about poetry. Finally, but not less important it is the theme of the poem, which is the importance of a poem. Adcock Fleur is a very renowned writer, so she applies all the knowledge she has about writing poetry, and she got an important conclusion that is “to be good”. Therefore, no matter all the elements implied or themes inside a poem, all what cares is to transmit something worthy.
ReplyDeleteA poem, as we already studied, is something hard to define; it might seem something as simple as a group of words, or something as complicated as a group of the right words. “The Prize-Winning Poem” implies that a poem does not need to be too elaborated to be good.
ReplyDeletePoems are another expression of written literature; therefore, it follows most of its simple, traditional, grammatical, and punctuation rules that we already know from other literature pieces. Poems can be inspired on any subject, object, topic, or feeling, and that is fine; moreover, poetry can be written by anyone.
I compare the definition of a poem like when someone ask you for the definition of love or peace or hate, that you what it is you have experience the feeling, but you do not know how to express it in simply words. After reading ´´the Prize-Winning Poem´´ I found that an outstanding poem is not about the title or topic that you choose, neither it is about the selection of words, nor an elaborate thing, it is just a combination of crazy, wonderful, and creative group of feelings and ideas that the author try to convey, it is more about what you get from the poem than how it is written. That is what I infer on this poem about poetry.
ReplyDeleteAbout the poem, I really liked to see a different poem where it shows us that poetry doesn´t have rules to follow. Also it talks about what other poems are always related to a topic such as feelings, death, what other people expect about author. Besides of that, the poem teaches me that we can create the most beautiful poems without following steps, or trends. Sometimes, in many poems we find the same characteristics, patterns. That’s why through of the Prize winning Poem we realized that we can break the monotony, and we can be ourselves through writing. So that, we, like little authors, could create something totally original, beautiful, different to others. At the end, as F.Adcock pointed out the masterpiece is in ours to make a difference and the result will be enough good.
ReplyDeleteIt is such a quite relieve to read the most spontaneous verses structured in the most authentic and sublime form to achieve its objective, which is in my perspective, to express the universality of poetry. The writing of a good poem is not necessarily a technical or mechanical process. A good poem is not restricted by a group of judges; a good poem enchants the soul of the reader because it utters, in the most beautiful way, what a heart can’t. Poetry is not about forced words, it’s about free words that were born to be together.
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