Freakishly Structured Poetry Course
TeasingIt doesn't help that the other course I'm taking is Interdisciplinary Expressive Arts (AKA Creativity Class), or that this is my last semester and I'm pretty much ready to smack the authoritative school structure in the head repeatedly. Now my Poetry prof welcomes us with a gigantic list of pointless rules and I feel the need to laugh in his face. (Fortunately, the course is online.
)In addition to a thorough grading rubric consisting of bizarre checks and check minuses (Yes, it's exactly the sort of thing I was asking of my Geography prof; the irony is not lost on me), we've been given a full list of rules, most of which I think are just plain silly for a Creative Writing class.
1. "Late assignments will NOT be accepted or graded. No exceptions."
I laugh at this because my last Creative Writing teacher (who was AWESOME, and who is also teaching the Creativity class I mentioned), was a huge supporter of the letting people work at the pace of their own creative juices, and flat out told us, "I'd rather you hand in something late that you're proud of than something on time that you're not happy with."
2. "All poems should be 12 point Times or Times New Roman. They should be left-justified unless for an expressed purpose beyond preference. Poems should be single spaced unless for an expressed purpose beyond simple preference. Poems should adhere to standard grammar, again, unless for an expressed purpose beyond simple preference."
Holy creativity crammed in a box, Batman! Again, I think back to my last Creative Writing teacher, who specifically advised us NOT to use Times New Roman, because it is totally boring to the eye and does not inspire creativity.
3. "All files should be in .rtf and should be named as follows: LastnameAssignment#.rtf. E.g. SmithPoem1.rtf."
Wow... "SmithPoem1.rtf." Doesn't that just scream poetry from the heart?
And this is only a selection of the rules.
If I sound upset about this course or anything, I'm not. I honestly think this is hilarious, and I intend to be an utter smartass about it.
A quiet, subtle smartass...Updates will probably follow... Oh, as will poetry!
(P.S. I've already broken one rule.
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Devious Comments
By the by are you free on Saturday? I'm going shopping with my mom and we may stop to look a few wedding dresses in Langley. I'm still going to do the big shop in early November (let me know when you are away)but there is one shop I wanted to check out.
Which rule did you break?
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~Just 'cause I'm cute doesn't mean I'm not dangerous~
As for the rule I broke... Hmm, hard to explain because it was so ridiculous... Basically for our reading responses this week we had to read 7 poems and choose 2 from that list to comment on. But the rule for reading responses is that we can't double up (i.e. comment on a poem that's already been commented on) until all the poems have been commented on at least once. Since I was the third person to do the assignment, I was basically supposed to either choose only from the 3 poems left, or wait until other people had chosen those ones so I could double up. Instead I chose the 2 poems that interested me most, one of which happened to have already been discussed by someone else... Did that make any sense? If not, it's because it was a stupid rule.
Anyway, sadly I'm not free Saturday. I'm away for the weekend on a choir trip... Blast!
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Beware the Evil Spork!
"There is no utensil of more unrelenting malice..."
"I think I just verbed a noun." (Joss Whedon)
you know what i would have done to this teaacher dont you.... it would have been so much better if it were face to face just because of how i could torment him....
But cant wait for your poems!
Beat him down for me okay! and seriously he was the best teacher and no one can really match him! well except when you fainted....
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It is in the moments of change
that we truly show who and what we are.
Unable to forget the past
but to struggle to move on from it.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Enjoy the weekend in case I don't talk to you before you go and I will make sure to take pictures of all the dresses.
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~Just 'cause I'm cute doesn't mean I'm not dangerous~
I finished my first poem today. I might post it here sometime, but first... well, I'll have to de-Poetry Class it. The rules were so strict, I really feel it hurt the writing. (I had to describe a photograph. But the whole thing had to be written in couplets, with each line consisting of 10-12 words, and I had to include all five senses... That's include all five senses while describing a photograph...
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Beware the Evil Spork!
"There is no utensil of more unrelenting malice..."
"I think I just verbed a noun." (Joss Whedon)
P.S. I got The Beatles Rockband for my birthday.
P.P.S. It's AWESOME! You can have up to 3 instruments and 3 singing parts, all at once!
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Beware the Evil Spork!
"There is no utensil of more unrelenting malice..."
"I think I just verbed a noun." (Joss Whedon)
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It is in the moments of change
that we truly show who and what we are.
Unable to forget the past
but to struggle to move on from it.
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Mew...
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One day it'll become big and strong and who knows what it'll do...
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Beware the Evil Spork!
"There is no utensil of more unrelenting malice..."
"I think I just verbed a noun." (Joss Whedon)
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