Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Copy Change Poem - Sweet Like a Crow

Your voice sounds like a pitiful wolf
howling at the moon
like a horse in it's dying moments
like thunder growling in the night
like a screaming kettle, like a school teacher
writing on a black board, like an electric sharpener,
like a window being shattered
a child being slapped
a stereo at full volume
Like a little boy crying in the dark,
like a toad croaking at night
like an oak tree being cut down,
an angry crow, a baby girl
with a needle in her arm
like a school being bulldozed
like a candle blown out
like the sound I heard when studying for an exam
and someone walked through my room in high heels.

Monday, April 29, 2013

Copy Change Poem - "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I think I know.
He lives above where no trees grow;

On big white clouds his castle lies
Watching down on the world below.

From deep within come piercing cries
And all happiness inside me dies

I take a step into the gloom
And all around me dark trees rise.

It seems a though I'm in a tomb
The devil's toxic, writhing womb

Beneath my feet I feel a tremor
The demon wishing to consume.

But I have got no firepower
Trapped inside this painful blur,

Running through these woods forever,
Running through these woods forever.



Friday, April 26, 2013

Copy Changed Poem


so much depends
upon

a paper
plane

gliding through a
sky

of pulsing
galaxies

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Independant Inquiry Project - Diary Entry

Entry by: Sally
Scene: When Sally and Katherine are captured. 

Day two in captivity
Year 2127

We are trapped in a horribly dark, putrid dungeon. My tears dried up long ago, nothing more will come out, so I sit here, helpless, and wait for death. You would never imagine the toll it takes on your mind to be surrounded blackness for so long, with no food or water. The only time we are able to see is when those loathsome, sick people come in and torture us to the point where agony that racks our bodies and our minds. They started with Katherine - my turn will come soon. I had to watch them destroy her, for all I could do was watch. It fills me with a wild anger that envelops my mind until I can't see straight anymore. They've mutilated her body with the hot irons, and her feet... it's too painful to describe. They will do the same to me and eventually I will break too. Katherine has confessed to it all, and so I have confirmed it. They know about our powers, and David and Rosalind, and Petra. They asked more questions but I fed them lies. Forgive us, friends, we are not strong enough...we have failed you. 

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Independent Inquiry Project - Soundtrack to a Scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osw5TN70oso

Not Falling Apart - Maroon 5

I feel this song almost perfectly captures the scene when Sophie leaves. I would start the song right after Mrs. Wender says: "We'll never forget,". The song would play during the night while David stays at Sophie's house and fade out as he's walking home, just before he enters his house. I chose this song because the lyrics explain David's feelings in the scene. In the first verse, "Danced all night" represents how they played together and had fun all the time, and "Fearless when it comes to playing games" represents how they were fearless as they did dangerous things, like sliding down that sandy runnel at the beginning of the book. "Afraid to have a love affair" represents how they can't be together for fear of Sophie's deviation being found out about. The chorus "Now I can't walk, I can't talk since you walked out the door" explains David's feelings after they leave, and "Now I'm stuck living out that night again" represents the memory of spending that night in their house that will never leave his mind.
This song provides people with a deeper insight into David's mind so they fully understand how he is affected, makes it easier for them to put themselves in David's shoes, and strengthens the emotional link between the reader/viewer and the character.