Meeting #5 Minutes
Dead Poet's Society Meeting #5 Minutes
Date (November 10 2005)
Present: Noah, Caroline, Jerry, Valerie, Erin, Todd, Meaghan (hereafter Megs)
Motion for name change from "The Dead Poet's Society" to "The DPS" was brought forward, and carried (though Jerry actually changed the site name before the vote could be held).
Caroline
1. Caroline (Refrain OR Coda)
-starts with a cliche (creativity and meaning lost)
-very cyclical ideas flow in this poem. The song being lost and found again.
2. Elizabeth Browning (There is no God-)
-quick to blame God for the bad things
-when things get bad for us, we tend to call out to "God", but are we really calling out to Him?
Erin
1. Jewel (Sometimes)
-interesting difference between Jewels songs and her poetry (vastly different :)
-spent some time thinking about free verse, and how a lack of punctuation effects where stress is placed in a poem.
2. Erin (This world is a breathing graveyard-)
-vast colour imagery.
-gold pretense - presentation of who we want people to be think we are.
-brittle honesty - to be afraid about what people think.
-Erin presented an interesting depth to imagery, which is a unique style in the group. The smashing together of colour and illusion should bring about some interesting poems in the future. Keep it up!
Valerie
1. Valerie (she sways in one sweeping movement-)
-FLUSH excellent word. Much discussion about the imagery used when incorporated with the colour red.
-"Crunch... to ash, ash makes us forget": Interesting how the reader is lulled into the sound created by the word crunching, so much so that we (as Megs put it) forget what the poem is about.
Jerry
1. ("Smile")
-Nice use of the future perfect tense.
-About looking back on an event from an already future perspective. (figure that one out!)
-You is the 1st person, not plural. Interesting problem with English not distinguishing between the two.
-Marriage of Love and Death. Reminded (Erin) of Othello. Interesting dichotomy of thought concerning the two. Love, Hate relationship.
Megs
1. D.G. Jones (The Stream Exposed with all its Stones)
-what lies underneath everything we do?
-Things are not always as they seem...
2. Megs (Of Scissors and Shredded Hearts)
-Heavy thoughts about what God is doing about Disasters.
-Response to negative attitude and seeming inappropriateness of Christian labels/lingo like "I push a broom for Jesus!"
-What is our Christian community doing?
Noah
1. Blake
A. Eliot on Blake
-merely peculior honesty
-unpleasantness in great poetry
B. (Eternity)
-if we have something which gives joy we either destroy it, or it destroys us.
-if we let it give joy and move on, we will be full of joy forever.
2. Noah
A. (because you are so devious)
-"That reminds me of those Christians you want to punch in the face." (Erin)
-"devious" to be doing something other than what you should be -Longfellow
-inspired by personal encounters, but the end of the poem underminds and saves the thought process from going down a problematic path.
- 2 stanza: People hiding God's goodness, or the experience.
B. Proverb
-Lamb led to a slaughter these virgin kisses on our lips (probably needs some explanation)
Todd
1. Todd (A Silken Purpose)
-Is there meaning in life to spending our energy?
-Analogy taken from the spider who rebuilds his web over and over, regardless of what happens.
-Can the spider, like Job, respond righteously and justly by protesting the problems in his life? Can you, can I?
Alright folks, I know I have been slacking on getting these minutes off, but I am on the job now!
Remember to post the poems you shared, and add additional information in the COMMENTS (so as to leave the poem unmarked and unanalyzed at face value). And please make quality comments on people's poems. I want to see everyone who was at the meeting post the stuff listed in the minutes by next week!)
And feel free to post whatever else!
Next week the poetic lesson will be a deeper understanding of RYTHM as a counter-point to some of William Carlos Williams, and Jerry, and Noah's interesting style of writing.
Seeya next week everyone!
-the bard
Date (November 10 2005)
Present: Noah, Caroline, Jerry, Valerie, Erin, Todd, Meaghan (hereafter Megs)
Motion for name change from "The Dead Poet's Society" to "The DPS" was brought forward, and carried (though Jerry actually changed the site name before the vote could be held).
Caroline
1. Caroline (Refrain OR Coda)
-starts with a cliche (creativity and meaning lost)
-very cyclical ideas flow in this poem. The song being lost and found again.
2. Elizabeth Browning (There is no God-)
-quick to blame God for the bad things
-when things get bad for us, we tend to call out to "God", but are we really calling out to Him?
Erin
1. Jewel (Sometimes)
-interesting difference between Jewels songs and her poetry (vastly different :)
-spent some time thinking about free verse, and how a lack of punctuation effects where stress is placed in a poem.
2. Erin (This world is a breathing graveyard-)
-vast colour imagery.
-gold pretense - presentation of who we want people to be think we are.
-brittle honesty - to be afraid about what people think.
-Erin presented an interesting depth to imagery, which is a unique style in the group. The smashing together of colour and illusion should bring about some interesting poems in the future. Keep it up!
Valerie
1. Valerie (she sways in one sweeping movement-)
-FLUSH excellent word. Much discussion about the imagery used when incorporated with the colour red.
-"Crunch... to ash, ash makes us forget": Interesting how the reader is lulled into the sound created by the word crunching, so much so that we (as Megs put it) forget what the poem is about.
Jerry
1. ("Smile")
-Nice use of the future perfect tense.
-About looking back on an event from an already future perspective. (figure that one out!)
-You is the 1st person, not plural. Interesting problem with English not distinguishing between the two.
-Marriage of Love and Death. Reminded (Erin) of Othello. Interesting dichotomy of thought concerning the two. Love, Hate relationship.
Megs
1. D.G. Jones (The Stream Exposed with all its Stones)
-what lies underneath everything we do?
-Things are not always as they seem...
2. Megs (Of Scissors and Shredded Hearts)
-Heavy thoughts about what God is doing about Disasters.
-Response to negative attitude and seeming inappropriateness of Christian labels/lingo like "I push a broom for Jesus!"
-What is our Christian community doing?
Noah
1. Blake
A. Eliot on Blake
-merely peculior honesty
-unpleasantness in great poetry
B. (Eternity)
-if we have something which gives joy we either destroy it, or it destroys us.
-if we let it give joy and move on, we will be full of joy forever.
2. Noah
A. (because you are so devious)
-"That reminds me of those Christians you want to punch in the face." (Erin)
-"devious" to be doing something other than what you should be -Longfellow
-inspired by personal encounters, but the end of the poem underminds and saves the thought process from going down a problematic path.
- 2 stanza: People hiding God's goodness, or the experience.
B. Proverb
-Lamb led to a slaughter these virgin kisses on our lips (probably needs some explanation)
Todd
1. Todd (A Silken Purpose)
-Is there meaning in life to spending our energy?
-Analogy taken from the spider who rebuilds his web over and over, regardless of what happens.
-Can the spider, like Job, respond righteously and justly by protesting the problems in his life? Can you, can I?
Alright folks, I know I have been slacking on getting these minutes off, but I am on the job now!
Remember to post the poems you shared, and add additional information in the COMMENTS (so as to leave the poem unmarked and unanalyzed at face value). And please make quality comments on people's poems. I want to see everyone who was at the meeting post the stuff listed in the minutes by next week!)
And feel free to post whatever else!
Next week the poetic lesson will be a deeper understanding of RYTHM as a counter-point to some of William Carlos Williams, and Jerry, and Noah's interesting style of writing.
Seeya next week everyone!
-the bard
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