dVerse Poets

by rugby843, posted in Uncategorized

I have chosen the following lines to include in your prose:
“There you can see a very small patch
Of dark blue, framed by a little branch,
Pinned up by a naughty star”
I love the idea of a naughty star!
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The English teacher stands before his class and asks them to observe this photograph. He speaks his own observation as an example: “Gray storm landscapes, the season changes when cooler breezes tear the leaves from their freezing limbs. Observed once fresh and green in spring, the soft summer hues turn to vibrant autumn brilliance. Then the season chills, leaves mutate to brown, dry, and curling, showing their vulnerability in stronger winds. The trees start to bare, sad dark tones fill the skies.” The instructor finished his speech with a quote:“There you can see a very small patch Of dark blue, framed by a little branch, Pinned up by a naughty star”. Arthur Rimbaud

The group of students were asked by the teacher to use his words as examples as well as the quote.

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I had a really hard time with this prompt 🙃

Prosery: Rimbaud’s Naughty Star

14 thoughts on “dVerse Poets”

  4. This was a tough prosery prompt….you did it well. I like the idea of going into the English teacher’s classroom because who else would quote this French poet? And you lead into it almost with an in-class assignment in terms of the teacher, talking through an ekphrastic assignment…telling what he sees from the image. Well done!

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    1. Thanks so much for your comment. I just really didn’t know if I was doing it right or not. That’s the problem because I always want to try to do it and I usually Google the form to make sure that I get it right but I never know.☺️

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  6. You may have had a hard time with the prompt, Cheryl, but it doesn’t show! I like how it took you to the classroom – I love the idea of breezes tearing ‘the leaves from their freezing limbs’.

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