Poetry and Pedagogy across the Lifespan by Sandra Lee Kleppe & Angela Sorby

Author:Sandra Lee Kleppe & Angela Sorby
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783319904337
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Transcription

We then turned to transcripts of three poems and I asked students to connect their literary observations here to their study of the envelope. After paraphrasing the poems with the students, I led a modified version of a close-reading-based discussion of the poems, anchoring their attention to words, for instance, to the study of envelope fragments—“minute” and “undone” in A109; “compose,” “nothings,” “appointment,” “compose,” and “keep” in A821A; and “apartments,” “never enter,” and “seals,” in A842 (Appendix 1.1). What seemed to be concretized in their responses is a homology between the material and the literary such that “thought” and “emotions,” the ephemeral matter of poems, acquired attributes of what might be put inside or done to envelopes: “my take-away is thinking how apartments hold our thoughts and it’s wrong to intrude into other minds,” “the enjambment in the poem are [sic] like cut thoughts,” “the emotions mirror torn edges” (personal communications, 15 May 2017; emphasis mine). The fragility of recovered material came up again in how they thought about “useless beautiful things—the sunset for example—are like people—they may be really beautiful but at the end of the day they are only a fleeting image” (personal communication, 15 May 2017).

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