Visual Found Poetry
Interactive Word Bank
Karen Whimsy - Book of Happiness
Found poetry is a type of poetry created by taking words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other sources and re-framing them as poetry by making changes in spacing and lines, or by adding or deleting text, thus imparting new meaning. The resulting poem can be defined as either treated: changed in a profound and systematic manner; or untreated: virtually unchanged from the order, syntax and meaning of the original. The concept of found poetry is closely connected to the revision of the concept of authorship in the 20th century: as John Hollander put it, 'anyone may "find" a text; the poet is he who names it, "Text"'. BIG IDEA: Students compose found and parallel poems based on descriptive literary passages and combine with artistic imagery while becoming emotionally involved in the content. |
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ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How might one find poetry within existing words?
KEY KNOWLEDGE and UNDERSTANDING: One of the strongest ways to teach students about how poets and poetry works is to encourage them to write their own poetry. It is possible to integrate historical events and have the influence of artistic styles as well.
The advantage of found poems is that "you don't start from scratch. All you have to do is find some good language and ‘improve' it". Poems hide in things you and others say and write. They lie buried in places where language isn't so self-conscious as ‘real poetry' often is. This process of recasting the text they are reading in a different genre helps students become more insightful readers and develop creativity in thinking, writing and making art.
Students will:
DESIGN PROCESS:
MAGNET THEME CONNECTIONS:
KEY KNOWLEDGE and UNDERSTANDING: One of the strongest ways to teach students about how poets and poetry works is to encourage them to write their own poetry. It is possible to integrate historical events and have the influence of artistic styles as well.
The advantage of found poems is that "you don't start from scratch. All you have to do is find some good language and ‘improve' it". Poems hide in things you and others say and write. They lie buried in places where language isn't so self-conscious as ‘real poetry' often is. This process of recasting the text they are reading in a different genre helps students become more insightful readers and develop creativity in thinking, writing and making art.
Students will:
- respond to various literary genres using interpretive and evaluative processes
- Create artistic visual applications with words
- apply conventions of grammar and language usage
- recognize poetic elements
- practice creating found poetry
DESIGN PROCESS:
- Choose (or you select for them) a passage from the text, primary source or novel that you have selected.
- Use the passage to compose original poems, called found poems
- Observe the imagery shown as examples and use for inspiration. how can you manipulate and make into your own?
- Follow the process of composing original found poems, using the Found Poem Instructions.
- Be sure to create a visual composition with your poem.
- Review poems using rubric and reflection.
MAGNET THEME CONNECTIONS:
- Franze Stenzel describes the Dadaism movement with its ready-made philosophy as a predecessor for the practice that later became found poetry. Dadaists like Duchamp placed everyday practical objects in an environment that was aesthetic and in so doing called into question that object as art, the observer, the aesthetic environment and the definition of what is art.
- Stylistically, found poetry is similar to the visual art of "appropriation" in which two- and three-dimensional art is created from recycled items, giving ordinary/commercial things new meaning when put within a new context in unexpected combinations or juxtapositions.
- 8th Grade Extensions: Connect with Warriors Don't Cry, Personal Memoirs