NaPoMo Dickinsonian Oracle and Writing Exercise #10
In honor of National Poetry Month, and for those interested in its NaPoWriMo incarnation, Brightly is proud to bring to you the Dickinsonian Oracle's Oracular Writing Exercise.
Here is the NaPoWriMo DiOrOrWriEx procedure:
(1) Pose a question to the oracle.
(2) Read the oracle's pronouncement and writing commandment.
(3) Write a bit of poetry
The Dickinsonian oracle declares on this 75 degree, Minneapolitan spring day:
The Show is not the Show
But they that go -
Menagerie to me
My Neighbor be -
Fair Play -
Both went to see -
(E. Dickinson, 1270)
And the writing commandment:
In what way can you make the claim "The Show is not the Show" intelligibly answer your question to the oracle? Write a short poem that does just this. Try mimicing the form Dickinson uses here. Can you pull it off?
Here is the NaPoWriMo DiOrOrWriEx procedure:
(1) Pose a question to the oracle.
(2) Read the oracle's pronouncement and writing commandment.
(3) Write a bit of poetry
The Dickinsonian oracle declares on this 75 degree, Minneapolitan spring day:
The Show is not the Show
But they that go -
Menagerie to me
My Neighbor be -
Fair Play -
Both went to see -
(E. Dickinson, 1270)
And the writing commandment:
In what way can you make the claim "The Show is not the Show" intelligibly answer your question to the oracle? Write a short poem that does just this. Try mimicing the form Dickinson uses here. Can you pull it off?
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