Conceptual Project Poems
Throughout the conceptual unit in English, we wrote, read and learned about poetry and how to write an effective poem.
Ekphrastic Poem
The first poem I chose to share was my Ekphrastic Poem. The Ekphrastic Poem was a poem that we created responding to a piece of art of our choice from our field trip to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Poem Intention Statement
In “Fathomless Words”, I am exploring the feeling of processing the unknown through writing. The speaker of my poem is heavily based off of me and my ideas, the speaker responds to the concept statement with many difficult emotions. The subject of my poem is envisioning the future and in the beginning of my poem, the speaker reacts to the subject with fear, confusion, and anxiety but later has a shift in their attitude about the subject, reacting to it with excitement and a need for discovery. The shift in attitude towards the subject came from the realization that you will not know your future until you live it and it is a waste of energy to worry about things you cannot control. To continue, I used this image of typing on a never ending piece of paper as a metaphor for worrying about the unknown and what you can’t control. I also used an abyss as a metaphor for my mind because I think it creates a deep understanding of the idea of contemplation that I am trying to convey. I wanted to create a overwhelming or unsettling feeling in the first seven lines of my poem because thinking about the future can be overwhelming and after that I wanted to slow the tone of my poem down through the use of enjambment and end-stops. I also wanted to organize it in a way that it would slow down in your head when you are reading it as well. I wanted my poem to be relatable in multiple ways, for example I wanted people to relate to how difficult writing can be but also how difficult contemplating the future can be because I face these difficulties very often and I know that others do too.
Creative Poem
The second poem I chose to share was our creative poem. This poem was a story of two people coming together and/or meeting, all the while responding to our concept statement. (I am exploring the feeling of defeat through the experience of cooking)
