What do you notice about the craft of the work—how the author has constructed the story/poetry?
William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”
WHAT TO DO
Choose: one story, OR one poem, OR 2-3 related poems from the list at the end of this document that you’d like to write about. If you choose work that we’ve already discussed in this class, be sure you don’t simply repeat ideas and insights from those previous discussions. Come up with something new.
Next, carefully craft a thoughtful, detailed, insightful 3-4 page response to the items listed below. Use the knowledge you’ve developed about writing craft to practice reading like a writer, and teaching yourself about literary craft through your reading and response-writing. Your response is a formal essay, not a freewriting exercise or a simple Q&A. Pay attention to things like organization, focus, coherency, spelling/grammar, etc.
ITEMS TO ADDRESS:
Exploring Personal Connections: one brief paragraph
- What’s the specific subject matter of the work? (What specific idea, experience, topic, etc., does it explore?)
- How do you connect to it, personally? (What specific reasons explain why you chose this work to write about? Are you interested in how it uses specific craft elements? Does it resonate with you on a personal level for some specific reason? Explain.)
Exploring Craft: 2-3 pages
- What do you notice about the craft of the work—how the author has constructed the story/poetry? Make observations about situation, plot, characterization, point of view, structure, imagery, etc., and ask yourself how the author is using these craft elements in the work you’re exploring. You don’t need to address every craft element we’ve explored in this course; focus on the ones that seem most interesting to you or most important to the work, and explain why they’re the most interesting/important.
- What questions about how story/poetry craft do your observations raise for you? For example, does the story make you wonder about how plot situations can/should be introduced in a story, or about effective plot resolutions? Does the poem make you wonder about how/why to use specific types of rhyme, or what makes for effective imagery?
Drawing Conclusions: 1-2 detailed paragraphs
- What does the work teach or show you about how fiction/poetry is written? How does it help answer the questions you raised above?
- How might you apply what you’ve learned from reading this work and writing this response to the story/poetry you’re writing for this class?
REQUIREMENTS
Prose:
- Sherman Alexie “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”ACTIONS
- William Faulkner “A Rose for Emily”ACTIONS
- Gabriel García Márquez “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”ACTIONS
- Susan Glaspell “A Jury of Her Peers”ACTIONS
- Mo Yan “Soaring’ACTIONS
- John Updike “A&P”ACTIONS
- Joyce Carol Oates “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”ACTIONS
- Nadine Gordimer “Is There Nowhere Else Where We Can Meet?”ACTIONS
- Ursula K. LeGuin “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”ACTIONS
Poetry:
- Langston Hughes “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”ACTIONS
- Louise Gluck “Terminal Resemblance”ACTIONS
- Audre Lorde “Hanging Fire”ACTIONS
- Marge Piercy “It Ain’t Heavy, It’s My Purse”ACTIONS
- Sylvia Plath “Mirror”ACTIONS
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Which one do you want to choose?
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