A Pondering Moment: Class Comments

Hi!

I'm very impressed with some of the wordle poems you created in class today. We saw today that poetry is word art as well as sound art. Could we say that video poetry is the cross over of word art and sound art (sound word art)?

In your comments, you mentioned that video poetry shows pictures at the same time and that the words move. Some of you thought that it was a better way for poetry to express its message because of this. Others wondered why some of the poems didn't have written words or why the words were flying. All of these are valid comments. At least one comment mentioned that talking about poetry in a poem is a new idea. Could you imagine painting a picture about art or singing a song about music?

Your interpretations of the recorded poems also made me rethink how I had listened to them. Being A Woman is a tribute to hard working mothers. I hadn't thought of it that way. Gypsy is about someone running away from people in the name of independence and accomplishment. Keep reading with that level of insight! We'll keep publishing your poems (4 A-Coupons per poem) here and I'm excited to record your poems in the coming week. Soon we'll have our own class CD of poems and you'll be able to perform them if you like before Thanksgiving.

--Ms. Carbine