For Monday at 9:00 p.m.

Answer ONE of the following; please refresh your memory about how I grade these by reviewing the criteria on the syllabus. If one question has been completely answered, do NOT repeat others' answers. Go on to another question or raise a question of your own and/or write a response to something else Alexander wrote or said,letting us know what you are responding to.
1. Cite one example of a defamiliarizing image in an Alexander poem. Quote the image, with a parenthetical reference to the poem and line number, and explain exactly why the image is defamiliarizing. Now, write your own defamiliaring image for the same object/concept/thing that Alexander wrote hers for.

2.Cite one example of a surprising statement Alexander makes in one of the four interviews with Gates. Why is her statement surprising to you? What did you expect her to say and why?

3. Select a poem or a line of Alexander's and write a four line poetic response to it, using the five senses, defamliarization and metaphor. Write which poem and/or line you are responding to.

4. Take a phrase in the inauguration poem and respond to it.
Ask Elizabeth Alexander a question about the inaugural poem? Why are you raising this question? Explain.