Poetry as resistance using The Bluest Eyes text

Students will write one “Found” or “Blackout” poems using “The Bluest Eyes” text below to create a poem.

The poem MUST come for the attached text ONLY.

No new words can be added. Language is only being rearranged to create a poem (See the Blackout below).

The Bluest Eyes provides the text or language that MUST be used to create the poems.

The text is to be BLACKED OUT to demonstrated how YOUR poem was created and the Blackout is to be uploaded along with the poem you have created.

The POEMS MUST HAVE: Free-verse (allows you to employ resistance in your creation).

The Bluest Eyes as BLACKOUT text only:

Employ the four dimensions of poetry (Research this more for a greater understanding)

Sensual (pick lines that we can sense)

Intellectual (pick lines that cause us to think in some way)

Imaginative (use figurative language and imagery that surprise but is not more traumatizing.

Emotional (elicits an emotional response to the poem)

Have at least two stanzas. 7-20 lines/verses (I will not read beyond 20 lines of verse)

Each verse is has a variety of syllable count no more then 10 syllables per line and no less than two (use syllable counter to verify your syllables Syllable CounterLinkshttps://syllablecounter.net/ to an external site.

Be ethical in your creation as this is a college course.

Write the poem in a Word doc.

Copy and paste the poem in Db forum and attach the Black Out text attach it to your post.

**A poem without the BLACKOUT text as proof will not be graded. Poems not crafted from the provided text will not be graded.

Next: Students will write a 100-150 words discussing the cultural reference of poetry as resistance, using MLA in-text citation to document sources including course material to discuss the cultural reference.

Guiding Questions: How is your poem speaking to poetry as resistance as it relates to this piece of text from Toni Morrison. The Bluest Eyes?

How does this passage of text offers a passage for crafting a resistance poem?

What is the overall message from the passage?

How does religion and parents come into the cultural relevance?

How does the actual text and your poem resist possible the dominant’s culture gaze on literature and the creation of it.

(NO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS. THESE ARE GUIDING QUESTIONS WHICH GIVES YOU A PLACE TO START YOUR THINKING?)