List 10 abstract things
List 10 concrete things
INTANGIBLE
TANGIBLE
ABSTRACT
CONCRETE
Love
Desk
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore-And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over-like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
Write a 2 line poem in which you take an abstract idea and “show it by using a concrete image.
TURN THE PROSE PASSAGE BELOW BACK INTO VERSE. DECIDE WHERE TO
BREAK THE LINE AND REWRITE THE POEM BELOW THE TEXT. BE ABLE TO
DEFEND YOUR CHOICE OF LINE BREAK.
In Brueghel’s great picture, The Kermess, the dancers go round, they go round and around, the
squeal and the blareand the tweedle of bagpipes, a bugle and fiddles tipping
their bellies(round as the thick-sided glasses whose wash they impound) their hops and their
bellies off balance to turn them. Kicking and rolling about the Fair Grounds, swinging their
butts, those shanks must be sound to bear up under such rollicking measures, prance as they
dance in Brueghel’s great picture, The Kerness.
TURN THE PROSE PASSAGE BELOW BACK INTO VERSE. DECIDE WHERE TO
BREAK THE LINE AND REWRITE THE POEM BELOW THE TEXT. BE ABLE TO
DEFEND YOUR CHOICE OF LINE BREAK
Crazy Horse came back to life in a storage room of the Smithsonian, his body rising from a
wooden crate mistakenly marked ANONYMOUS HOPI MALE. Crazy Horse wandered the
halls, found the surface of the moon, Judy Garland and her red shoes, a stuffed horse named
Comanche, the only surviving member of the Seventh Cavalry at Little Big Horn. Crazy Horse
was found in the morning by a security guard who took him home and left him alone in a room
with cable television. Crazy Horse watched a basketball game, every black and white western, a
documentary about a scientist who travelled the Great Plains in the 1800s measuring Indians and
settlers, discovering that the Indians were two inches taller on average, in some areas, the
difference in height exceeded a foot, which proved nothing although Crazy Horse measured
himself against the fact of a mirror, traded faces with a taxi driver and memorized the city,
folding, unfolding, his mapped heart.