1. Your formal poem assignment will now be due on Tuesday 10/16 and your Emerson project (see below) will be due on the 23rd. Look over these
forms: sestina, sonnet, and villanelle,
and begin to decide which you will imitate (and discuss in a 300 word minimum
formal letter to your readers). We will
look over some examples for both components of this assignment.
2. EMERSON PROJECT: (Due 10/23) Using
the writings of Emerson. Write a letter to the editor of an imaginary newspaper
as an invented character responding to the work directly or the way the notions
behind it or Rand (or I can even allow for Thoreau, if you’d like) are working
for or against “you” (as your character). We’ll flesh out this idea more in
class, but plan on a 500 word minimum where your “character” tells a bit about
him/herself and how the ideas in one of those works or in other more recent
writings have impacted him/her. If you’re
using another speech or text, make sure you provide the original or a source
for it. Then, you will be inventing a second character, one with a very
different or contrasting, even opposing viewpoint, to respond to your original
character. (250 words or more) Have fun with this. Name your newspaper, your
town, really try to imagine these lives. For inspiration, consider Lynch’s Interview Project:
http://interviewproject.davidlynch.com/www/#/route
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