Hey all!
So I’ve been cramming like crazy–as I’m sure most of you are. I was just thinking how I would love to have a little writing exercise to de-stress but that also relates somewhat to material I’m studying. Maybe this can even help you with your studies! (I said maybe, sorry if it doesn’t)
So, the title of your poem will be the class you are studying for. For example, my title will be ENGL 115, as that is what I’m currently working on.
Now randomly select a term on one of your study sheets or assignments–any term!I landed on Wendy Cope’s Poem–From Strugnell’s Sonnets (which is about a male poet who likes getting drunk, and getting women drunk to have sex with him) ((does this count as studying???).
Now you’ve got a title and a first line!
ENGL 115
In Strugnell’s Sonnets I find:
Now list things you would find in whatever term you have chosen!
ENGL 115
In Strugnell’s Sonnets I find:
drunken whispers over rivers,
the rush of blood in cheeks of
ladies who no longer know what they
speak. cheap liquor leaving table
rings, proposals to marriage
(bed).
While this is pretty shitty, I still had fun writing it and I’m pretty sure I won’t forget what’s happening in Wendy Cope’s poem!!!
Happy Studying!!
(((Lilo loves you all)))
I thought I’d share my results:
WMST 100
In Bastard out of Carolina I find:
bleak summer dirt roads
shady wraparound porches
sweet iced tea turned sour with citrus
trawling hook sexual freedom
bleeding cuts and birth certificates
humn 220
in letter from a Birmingham jail I find:
leaking desperation
jug filled injustice
black white just is,
hear words written by
underestimated and jailed:
are you better or are we the same
or are we both blind and desperate,
jailed and head filled. boots bled splat
head, I dare you to think.
awesome! glad to see HUMN pop up here, Carolina! And great, daring ending.