Week Three/Wallace Stevens
Previously Friendship and Journey Poems
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
This poem can be a very cool poem for children to experience. How many ways can you look at something? In detail and in landscape? In a feelings way or a matter of fact description way? Vantage points? Minds eye thoughts? Encourage yr child to choose a person or an object and try to look at it in 13 ways. Older children can expand on this and look at their object in larger terms, while younger children can dictate with prompts like:
What is the color of____?
How does ____ make you feel?
Where is _____?
How does_____ look?
How does_____ smell?
How does_____seem?
Why is ________?
and so on...
Finn "wrote" a poem with prompts at each section about Blaise.
We sat and observed Blaise early this morning and wrote our thoughts down.
I am amazed at the beautiful poem that came out of Finn.
13 Ways of Looking at Blay Blay
Blaise is in his wake up time in his crib
he looks baby
getting on a chair
babyish chair
loving him with love when
he plays running game with me
eating food
Mommy's food
messy
funnyish baby boy
looking like a cat
baby meow
in the winter
good small
he is Blaise blue eyes
and purple mouth
say mama
loud and quiet
he hurts me ears
baby clothes
that look sleepy
PJ's on and watching me and you
thinking about poetry
but he is a baby
he makes me feel sad and happy
good and bad
he hits me
sweet like candy
when he sleeps
that baby is a poem
* I am thrilled to be on The Crafty Crow today! This is a GREAT site that I adore!
2 comments:
this is one of my FAVorite poems. I love Wallace Stevens... such a scientific poet.
found your blog from inside out - very beautiful! looking forward to reading more :)
Wicked tender poem Finn!
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