Tuesday 7/24: Style, Showing and Telling

• Postcard poems "Nantucket"
• Whimsical meditations "The Naming of Cats"
• Showing vs. Telling in poetry (Neruda vs. Eliot)
• line breaks, enjambment

Prompts
1.  write a poem that plays with line breaks and enjambment
2. write a poem in the style of William Carlos William's "Nantucket" that describes the physical aspect of someone you love. 
3. write a poem in the style of Neruda's "Tonight I Can Write" (tells). Re-write in the style of the Stevie Smith poem (shows).

Afternoon:
Sonnets