In English, our teacher, Mr. Schauble, made the class write a poem in three minutes. For this, I wrote the beginning of a simple poem I am still working on called 'Silence'. Then he made us write another poem from a different point of view. So if the first poem was happy, then the next poem was supposed to be dark and moody. So I made my next poem have an objective opinion since the first poem was a neutral voice. So I wrote this:
Graffitti:
Graffitti--
i think that it's my anti-drug.
the colors,
the smell of the fresh paint,
the pride i feel.
to buy your paints and
let everyone see into your artwork,
let everyone see your excitement,
your way of expressing yourself.
It shouldn't be against the law-
IT'S ART
A lot of my classmates liked the voice in which the speaker establishes his or her opinion. One of my classmates commented, "You wrote that? Wow. I thought that it was one of the guys." I guess that I really did step out of my normal writing voice.
Another one of the things my classmates did notice, was how the i's in the poem are lowercased. I did that because I think that maybe although that this graffitti artist is proud of his or her work, the graffitti is a way of making him or her feel big, unlike maybe what people from a different perspective have on him or her throughout a normal livelyhood.
What do you think?
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
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