Gaga Stigmata: GAGAGRAPHY: Gaga, "Judas," & Francis Bacon

Gaga Stigmata: GAGAGRAPHY: Gaga, "Judas," & Francis Bacon

Gaga Stigmata: GAGAGRAPHY: Gaga, "Judas," & Francis Bacon

Gaga Stigmata: GAGAGRAPHY: Gaga, "Judas," & Francis Bacon

Final post: Perception of Green

Due: Sunday evening at 7:00 p.m.

Here is a link to Klocek-Lim's poem "How to Perceive Red": http://3quarksdaily.blogs.com/3quarksdaily/2007/12/how-to-perceive.html

Take one stanza and imitate as exactly as possible in terms of its sentence and image structure but put in your own words and images; your assignment, however, is How to Perceive Green. Please tell me which stanza you are imitating. When you finish, briefly describe what you got out of doing this. Thank you.

There are Two Posts: This One & One with the Rubric for the Slam (Posted Earlier)

This Post (Due Wednesday evening by 7:00 p.m.)
Read the poem which appears below the questions carefully; answer ALL of the questions:

1. In your opinion, what is the subject matter of the poem? Why do you think so? Provide evidence from the poem itself and explain it.
2. What is the theme of the poem? What gives you that idea? Explain and provide proof from the poem itself. There is not one correct answer to this question. There are several possible answers to this question, so please do not write the same answer as others. I will not give credit to answers that are the same as previous ones.


After the Movie

by Marie Howe
My friend Michael and I are walking home arguing about the movie.
He says that he believes a person can love someone
and still be able to murder that person.
I say, No, that's not love. That's attachment.
Michael says, No, that's love. You can love someone, then come to a day
when you're forced to think "it's him or me"
think "me" and kill him.
I say, Then it's not love anymore.
Michael says, It was love up to then though.
I say, Maybe we mean different things by the same word.
Michael says, Humans are complicated: love can exist even in the
murderous heart.
I say that what he might mean by love is desire.
Love is not a feeling, I say. And Michael says, Then what is it?
We're walking along West 16th Street—a clear unclouded night—and I hear my voice
repeating what I used to say to my husband: Love is action, I used to say
to him.
Simone Weil says that when you really love you are able to look at
someone you want to eat and not eat them.
Janis Joplin says, take another little piece of my heart now baby.
Meister Eckhardt says that as long as we love images we are doomed to
live in purgatory.
Michael and I stand on the corner of 6th Avenue saying goodnight.
I can't drink enough of the tangerine spritzer I've just bought—
again and again I bring the cold can to my mouth and suck the stuff from
the hole the flip top made.
What are you doing tomorrow? Michael says.
But what I think he's saying is "You are too strict. You are
a nun."
Then I think, Do I love Michael enough to allow him to think these things
of me even if he's not thinking them?
Above Manhattan, the moon wanes, and the sky turns clearer and colder.
Although the days, after the solstice, have started to lengthen,
we both know the winter has only begun.

Suggestions & Rubric for Upcoming Slam!

Yes, it's that time of the semester everyone -- SLAM time, and you want to excel at slamming and not get slammed, so here are some suggestions about how to make that happen. Read very carefully please:

Clarification of what constitutes a slam poem:

1.Your poem can adopt a combination of forms -- free verse and rhymed verse, but it must have some sense of rhythm and flow.

2. A well-crafted slam is highly articulate, highly provocative (gets a reaction out of the audience), sophisticated in its detail and in its performance knowledge (how to get a rise out of the audience).

3. It must include personal experience and figurative language (sound devices, imagery, five senses, similes, metaphors, etc.)

4. It is either dramatic (creates a moment of intense feeling), narrative (tells a story for some larger thematic reason) or didactic (has a purpose to teach some kind of lesson or make a point about something that is very important to you; something in society or at school or in the culture that needs to be changed or needs to be noticed, for example).

5. Maximum time length: 2 minutes 37 seconds; (please do not be too far beneath the time limit either)

6. Music, props, and costumes are allowed.

7. You do not have to memorize it, but you may NOT read it

8. Expectation: that you write the poem by yourself and that you bring the piece to life in front of your classmates so that everyone feels spoken to and everyone can hear and understand what you are saying very clearly and feels moved in some way by your piece (it may be humorous or serious).

Suggestions for Rehearsing the Slam:

1.Make sure the slam poem is well-organized and has all the poetic elements required above;

2. Time it on a few different takes.

3. Think about your body language (Feel free to have others watch you and make suggestions)

4. What will your hands do?

5.What will your body position be?

6. Think about how you will modulate your voice to enhance your poem and not overdo it.

7. What else will you use to enhance your performance?

8.You can't practice too much.

Slam will be graded using the following Criteria:

1. The poem itself: following the instructions regarding rhythm and figures of speech and word choice, degree of creativity/originality of topic, illustrations/examples and execution of poem.

2.PERFORMANCE:Clarity of articulation, body language, eye contact with audience.

Can everyone hear your performance? Adherence to time limit. Penalty for severe under-time.

How did audience react to your work? Did you use voice well? Did you create an aura or a mood in the classroom and sustain it? Was it appropriate to the poem?

Don't forget to bring a typed copy of your slam poem with you.

Synaesthesia! Please read instructions below:

Compose a couple (2) of cool images about rainfall or anything connected to rain using synaesthesia. After each example, state the two senses you mixed, and show whereyou used them (briefly please). Thank you!

Post is due by 7:30 Monday evening.

Due Monday at 7:00 p.m.

Share some images that appeal to the five senses and at least one simile or metaphor that you wrote as a result of looking closely at one of the photographs from the Graduating Seniors' Photography Show in Higgins Annex. List your images first, then please tell us the title of the photograph and the name of the photographer these images come from.

Finally, please explain the ways in which one art form can inspire another art form?

What is the relationship between looking closely at things and being inventive (i.e.coming up with original and defamiliarizing ways of saying things)?

Explain the difference between what your assignment asked you to do and copying or stealing another person's images please?

I look forward to reading your posts. For full credit you must address all that I asked.