During the poetry unit in English, we learned about some different poem types and grammar structure. During the first week, we were lucky enough to have a Poet-In-Residence, Ms. Moor. She gave some great feedback and helped us all get started on our poetry. While she was here, we learned about free verse poems, that have no limits on structure, cento poems, which combine lines from other poems to make something new, and ars poetica, poems that are about poetry. For the final draft of my exploratory poem, I did a free verse poem that I based off of the idea of rhetorical questions with no real answer given the context of the poem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Questions – Griffin Polika-Engle<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When will I be able to bathe in <\/p>\n\n\n\n
splendorous gold <\/p>\n\n\n\n
and sin?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why does the <\/p>\n\n\n\n
flaming sun\u2019s dance<\/p>\n\n\n\n
curse my eyes with pain?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What watches me <\/p>\n\n\n\n
from beyond the sky<\/p>\n\n\n\n
to stalk my every action?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How does the blood\u2019s <\/p>\n\n\n\n
desire to weep <\/p>\n\n\n\n
come true?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Where did the hands <\/p>\n\n\n\n
and claws of darkness <\/p>\n\n\n\n
pierce my fragile framework?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Who owns the heart<\/p>\n\n\n\n
dripping ink and tears<\/p>\n\n\n\n
within my chest?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Music Recording<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
For the music recording, I got a group of four friends and we decided to do a karaoke version of Let It Go from Frozen. The point of this project was to get comfortable with the recording studio and have some fun as a final project in digital media! I think we did pretty well overall, but I do wish we spent a bit more time learning the lyrics, because there were times when we got a bit quiet over not knowing them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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