EL 210-4
Spring 2009
Instructor: Lily Rabinoff-Goldman
Poem #2: Image 

From Ideas to Images

For this poem, you will be taking one of the ideas that you brainstormed in class and turning it into an image-dense poem.  You may choose to write about anything that you know well and can describe using sensory details, such as a place, a person, or an object that has strong meaning to you.  This poem should use language that evokes sight, smell, sound, touch, and/or taste, and the reader should be able to tell what your attitude is towards the thing you are describing (your poetic stance).  You may want to model it on any of the poems we read this week, including “Snow Day,” “Facing It,” “To Aunt Rose,” and “The Big Fish.”

Things to consider:
-	Are your images clear, concrete, and specific?
-	What poetic strategies (formal v. free verse, connotation, imagery, metaphor, conceit, density v. intensity, poetic voice, poetic action, etc.) are you using in this poem?
-	What is the emotion or set of emotions that you want the reader to understand from this poem?

This poem should be no more than 1 page long

Due Tuesday, 2/10