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Tapping Emotions

Tapping Emotions . CWI: Week 2. From Diary to Poetry. Select a situation you wrote about in your emotional diary Make a list of figurative language that applies Start your poem with an image that began the situation (any sense)

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Tapping Emotions

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  1. Tapping Emotions CWI: Week 2

  2. From Diary to Poetry • Select a situation you wrote about in your emotional diary • Make a list of figurative language that applies • Start your poem with an image that began the situation (any sense) • Follow the narrative of the situation connecting the events to the emotions with description, metaphors and similes • Slow Driver in front of me • The car is a snail, bolt of fury up my spine, closed in like a student in detention • Red Honda Snail eases into the passing lane and immediately slows down

  3. Multiple Emotions – One Poem • Come up with a situation that would cause different emotions in different people (at least 3) • Make a list of the different people and what they would be feeling • Describe how each person would SHOW the emotion they feel • For each emotion create a metaphor or simile • Use the information to craft a poem that transitions from one character to the next to encapsulate the situation fully • Graduation Ceremony • A student (excited), a parent (proud), a non-graduate (penitent), the principal (going through the motions) • Student – knees bouncing, touching the tassel in anticipation of moving it to graduated, grinning • 12 years of memories are bubbles rising in her stomach

  4. Calling the Muse The Muses, the personification of knowledge and the arts, especially literature, dance and music, are the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne (who was memory personified). They were considered the source of the knowledge, related orally for centuries in the ancient culture that was contained in poetic lyrics and myths. Some authors invoke Muses when writing poetry, hymns or epic history. The invocation typically occurs at or near the beginning, and calls for help or inspiration, or simply invites the Muse to sing through the author.

  5. The Muses Themselves Muse Domain Emblem Calliope Epic poetry Writing tablet Clio History Scrolls Erato Love poetry Cithara Euterpe Song and Elegiac poetry Flute Melpomene Tragedy Tragic mask Polyhymnia Hymns Veil Terpsichore Dance Lyre Thalia Comedy Comic mask Urania Astronomy Globe and compass

  6. Calling A Muse Dante Alighieri, in Canto II of The Inferno: O Muses, O high genius, aid me now! O memory that engraved the things I saw, Here shall your worth be manifest to all! (Anthony Esolen translation, 2002) Geoffrey Chaucer, in Book II of Troilus and Criseyde: O lady myn, that called art Cleo, Thow be my speed fro this forth, and my Muse, To rymewel this book til I haue do; Me nedeth here noon othere art to vse. ffor-whi to euerylouere I me excuse That of no sentement I this endite, But out of Latyn in my tonge it write. Homer, in Book I of The Odyssey: "Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy." (Robert Fagles translation, 1996)

  7. Calling Your Muse • Determine what you want your writing infused with • List the elements that are required to write this way well • Craft a poem that honors and calls upon the relevant muse and entices her to inspire you – you may want to use their emblem as part of your imagery • I want to write pieces that celebrate my faith • Show the power of God, the relationship between man and God, highlight the joy brought by having God in one’s life, inspire others to have faith • Oh Polyhymnia, lift your white veil and whisper your adoration into my eager ear

  8. Pineapple Event Poem 1. Cut the pineapple in half and wear the two halves as earmuffs on a cold winter day. 2. Peel the skins off 100 pineapples and glue them down to the floor as tiles. 3. Cut out five of the little round lozenges on the pineapple skin and sew them on your jacket as buttons. 4. Look at the pineapple. It looks like the torch of the Statue of Liberty. 5. Feel the pineapple. It feels like a suede sneaker on the foot of a very large kid.  (Padgett 75)

  9. Event Poem Rules • Focuses on an object • Lines are numbered and unrhymed • Lists unusual things to do with the object (at least 3) • Ends with the sight and feel of the object for the final two lines

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