English class

BIO POEM:

line 1 - topic
2 - two adjectives
3 - three (-ing) related words
4 - four related nouns
5 - three words to describe how topic affects you
6 - two adjectives
7 - restate topic


EMO
Abstract Punk
Slashing Crying Angst-exerting
MTV Eye-liner Knife Black
They amuse me
Misunderstood Vague
Bubblegum pop rock?


NO COMMAS. JUST WORDS.

I have John Donne and Archibal Mcleish to thank for the wonderful Modernist school of Poetry.

They say that a modernist poetry should have four traits:

1. brief
2. direct
3. timeless
4. free verse

My emo poem is BRIEF and DIRECT, and will be TIMELESS as long as nobody gets around to actually defining it; it shall be in question forever! And it's pretty much in free verse. Heck, I don't think anything can be flatter than the pancake that is my poem. It might as well have been in prose.

We took up Donne's poem called Death. While Ms Manahan was trying to explain the line "poppies of charms", she went "Do you know the Sandman? Not the graphic novel ha," she added "the kind who sprinkles stuff." I was thinking of Death at that moment (as opposed to the usual Grim Reaper). Hearing the momentary reference to Dream made me smile.

Another good day in English.