Anaphora poem

New Poem Requirements:

So far, most of the poems that we have studied and discussed have been playful, and at times, whimsical. As we prepare ourselves for this next poem, think about tone. How can you explore various themes by approaching tone differently. For example, "I Remember" was nostalgic. How can you express indifference? Anger? Melancholy? Joy? Exuberance?

Take a look at Gregory Orr's poem below called "A Litany." Seems different than Brainard's, no?

Draft 1 Due: Friday, Jan 30

A Litany

I remember him falling beside me,
the dark stain already seeping across his parka hood.
I remember screaming and running the half mile to our house.
I remember hiding in my room.
I remember that it was hard to breathe
and that I kept the door shut in terror that someone would enter.
I remember pressing my knuckles into my eyes.
I remember looking out the window once
at where an ambulance had backed up
over the lawn to the front door.
I remember someone hung from a tree near the barn
the deer we'd killed just before I shot my brother.
I remember toward evening someone came with soup.
I slurped it down, unable to look up.
In the bowl, among the vegetable chunks,
pale shapes of the alphabet bobbed at random
or lay in the shallow spoon.

"I Remember"

"I Remember" poem requirements:

1. 25 lines minimum
2. Typed
3. Uses the anaphoric "I Remember"
4. At least 1 example of juxtaposition and/or synesthesia

Due Monday 1/26