Week 8 - April 2
Disenchantments
and Transformations -- Donkeyskin
1. Disenchantments
(MY PAGES)
Kallman(6) , Mueller (8), Abse (20)
2. Transformations
Frog Prince
-selections (12-22)
We know he's not a prince - the point is this:
Our poor romantic daughter thinks he is. (Henderson Hay 12)
Sara Henderson
Hay: "The Marriage" (12)
Stevie Smith: "The Frog Prince" (13-14)
Elizabeth Brewster: The Princess Addresses the Frog Prince"
(19)
Susan Mitchell: From the Journals of the Frog Prince" (20)
B. INVENT
A QUICKIE FAIRYTALE IN WHICH YOU ARE TURNED INTO _____________
(NO MORE THAN 7 LINES)
3. Small workshop -------- back to hunger Raby" The
Art of Greed"
after exploring each other's poems and what you were pulled to
and what needs work
explore what hunger led to each poem
and what does the poem hunger for - if poems are act of greed
where you might indulge this greed
take 3 fairytales and boil them down to haikus
take a fairytale that seems to haunt you and explore it in a poem
A. Longing
for a fairy godmother
Jarrell and Pickard (32-33)
If you
had a fairy godmother watching over your poems what you ask
from her (besides the obvious Pulitzer prize/book contract with
Knopf)
READ: SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT - Translated
by J.R Tolkien
