Picture Poetry Assignment
Find a photograph and follow the assignment below
Week 1 - ME #4 - For each of
the following list at least FIVE –
Type your lists and turn them in:
List 1: What kinds of things might be happening or
have happened to the people in your picture?
List 3: What smells might the people in your
picture be experiencing?
List 4: How are the people in your picture
feeling? What are their thoughts and emotions?
List 6: What tastes might the people in your picture
be experiencing?
List 7: Tell about the person’s life experiences?
List 8: What could the setting of your
picture be (where are they)?
Week 2 - ME #5 - Write the Poem
Now look at your brainstorming list and select only the BEST ideas from each question. Using the ideas that will best help your reader see the image in your picture, create the lines of your imagery poem.
Now look at your brainstorming list and select only the BEST ideas from each question. Using the ideas that will best help your reader see the image in your picture, create the lines of your imagery poem.
Your
poem should be at least 20 lines
long. You will be graded on the Mastery
Poetry Description I gave you, so be sure to refer to it as you write and
include everything from the description in your poem.
1. They were selling cheap plastic toys and now
they’re counting their money; They stole some gum from a tienda and they are
splitting it up, keeping a watch out for the cops; They are playing Hoyita
behind the train station when they are supposed to be in school; They are
chatting about their experiences of that day’s work shining shoes at the train
station; They have to have 100 pesos to take back to the boys home at the end
of the day and they are afraid to go home.
2. Sounds: taxi cabs honking their horns; shop ladies
gossiping outside their tiendas; dirt crunching under their dusty jeans; the
bus brakes screeching on the next street over; and angry Military Macaw screeches
from the trees overhead.
3. Smells: shoe-shine polish, dust mixed with stale
cerveza, diesel exhaust from taxi and bus fumes, clothes that have been worn for
days, faint smell of a fruit juice stand selling jugos de mango, pina Blanca
and tomate de arbol on the other side of the street.
4. they are feeling frustrated and tired from a long
day of working the parks and streets with their shoe-shine kits, they are not
dreaming about a new video game or a trip to Disneyworld – their day’s wages
wouldn’t even come close to affording that and besides those things are far
beyond anything they could even dream of; maybe they are not miserable, not
depressed, just plotting the next thing to do – maybe misery and depression are
also not in their realm of thinking; maybe they are thinking about the cool new
toy that Victor got from his uncle’s tienda across from the parque.
5. It makes me wonder what waits for them when they go
home at night. What do their houses look
like? What do their parents do for a
living? What will they eat? Where do
they sleep? Do they ever get to go to school?
Can they read and do math? Do
they feel sorry for themselves or is life good to them because they don’t know
any better? Why do I feel sorry for
them?
6. Tastes: dust; his Tia’s papas rellenos she served as
leftovers for breakfast this morning; imagining the taste of sweet caramelos
they could buy with their shoeshine money; blank – nothing – hunger; blue
raspberry bolos they got from the nice lady by the lake at the parque.
7. Victor gets up every morning, puts on his chompa,
shoes and hat and grabs his shoeshine kit by the door. His mother is already at the fruit market
selling tomatoes and limes and 5 different kinds of bananas. He grabs a big red one they call maqueno and
heads out the door to the park to meet his buddies and find someone who needs
some shiny shoes. He only went to school
before his dad started drinking and left them.
He doesn’t think too much about that.
He and Juan Carlos are involved in a game to see who can shine the most
shoes on guys wearing hats today. He has
to win because the loser has to buy a bolo from the nice lady who works a cart
by the lake at the park.
8. The boys are
a couple of streets over from the main park in a little town in Peru; or Mexico;
or Bolivia; or Ecuador.
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