At first glance, oulipo poetry (to me) was a bit weird and hard to understand; but after learning that they made some poems mathematically, such as the Pi one, I was astonished. When you read a poem like that it makes absolutely no sense at all; but after learning that the poem is made with your own directions it made more sense. When we had to come up with our own way of setting the poem up I had so many ideas I couldn't decide which one to pick. So I went with this one: It is made up of two quatrains. The third letter in each word starts the following word and so on. Each quatrain alternates:
first quatrain: 4 words
3 words
2 words
1 word
second quatrain: 1 word
2 words
3 words
4 words
My own poem I came up with:
Turquoise raises sea above.
Out towards waves
Vast sea
Achieved.
Horizon.
Reactions astonished.
Tomorrow make believe kalology.
Lingering, glowing, outstanding scenery.
(Kalology means the study of beauty.)
1 comment:
Love the poem! You are lerning some interesting stuff at school! Aunty Katz
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