Painting Poetic Lines:

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Painting Poetic Lines

• A Muse in Composition

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Lets Talk About Art

• In the category of literacy, writing poetry
  helps students in all genres of writing. Writing
  poetry aids students in understanding the
  importance of careful word choice, especially
  active, vivid verbs and nouns. (Lynn Marsico)
• Perceptiveness is an awareness of things and
  people, of their qualities. (Ben Shahn)

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Possibilities with Picasso
What I See
What I feel
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Possibilities with Picasso Continue

• Lets think-pair-share in groups
• The group speaker is
• All listeners will record whole group discussion
  comments

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Ekphrastic Poetry, eh?

• Ekphrasis (also spelled "ecphrasis") is a direct
  transcription from the Greek ek, "out of," and
  phrasis, "speech" or "expression. More
  narrowly, it could designate a passage providing
  a short speech attributed to a mute work of
  visual art. In recent decades, the use of the
  term has been limited, first, to visual
  description and then even more specifically to
  the description of a real or imagined work of
  visual art. (Alfred Corn)

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Dare to Write Your Own Poetic Line

• Now, create a poem from your list of what you see
  and feel.
• Spend 10-15 minutes writing
• Lets share

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Prelude to a Poetic Introduction

• Allusion Alliteration Antithesis
• Personification
• Repetition
• Imagery
• Simile
• Metaphor
• A PRISM is the acronym!
• My Many Colored Days
• By Dr. Seuss

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Scaffolding Poetry? Use a R.A.F.T.!

• Role Choose the old man or the guitar
• Audience A bystander
• Format A poem
• Topic While using your notes, create a poem
  using vivid images from the point of view of the
  old man or the guitar in Picassos painting.

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Ekphrastic Examples

• THE MAN WITH THE BLUE GUITARby Wallace Stevens
• I
• The man bent over his guitar, A shearsman of
  sorts. The day was green.
• They said, "You have a blue guitar, You do not
  play things as they are."
• The man replied, "Things as they are Are changed
  upon the blue guitar."
• And they said then, "But play, you must, A tune
  beyond us, yet ourselves,
• A tune upon the blue guitar Of things exactly as
  they are."
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• I cannot bring a world quite round, Although I
  patch it as I can.
• I sing a hero'd head, large eye And bearded
  bronze, but not a man,
• Although I patch him as I can And reach through
  him almost to man.
• If to serenade almost to man Is to miss, by
  that, things as they are,
• Say that it is the serenade Of a man that plays
  a blue guitar.

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Another Ekphrastic Example

• It weeps for distant
• things.
• Hot southern sands
• yearning for white camellias.
• Weeps arrow without target
• evening without morning
• and the first dead bird
• on the branch.
• Oh, guitar!
• Heart mortally wounded
• by five swords.

• The Guitar   by Federico García Lorca Translated
  by Cola Franzen
• The weeping of the guitar
• begins.
• The goblets of dawn
• are smashed.
• The weeping of the guitar begins.
• Useless to silence it.
• Impossible to silence it.
• It weeps monotonously
• as water weeps
• as the wind weeps
• over snowfields.
• Impossible
• to silence it.

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Muse Can be Musically Inspired

• Lets dance, move our bodies and our pens!
• What do you hear?
• How does it make you feel?
• What memories are evoked?

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Visual Artistic Influences

• A visual artist expresses voice through
  conscious choice of lines, colors, shading,
  foreground/background and detail.(Nancy Dean)
• Poetry and painting alike create through
  composition. (Wallace Stevens)

• Painters to Consider
• Degas
• Monet
• Cassat
• Edward Hoper
• Photographer to Consider
• Gordon Parks

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• Penning poetry stretches the mind and awakens
  the imagination. And isnt that what teaching is
  all about?
• Nikki Grimes

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Supporting Sources

• Ekphrastic Poetry website http//tinyurl.com/nakp
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• Ben Shahn,The Shape of Content
• McClatchy, J.D. ed,Poets on Painters