Firestarter Challenge (9/18/07)
Firestarter Challenge Week 7 Title: Granular
(the categories of the exercises will change weekly)
- First Line: (take a line from a famous poet and use that to jumpstart your poem. “I was hoping to be happy by seventeen.” from Saturday at the Canal by Gary Soto.
- Imagery: A roadkill opossum.
- Form: A poem in Ottava Rima stanzas. Here is how to write an ottava rima stanza.
- Music: Anaphora. Use an anaphoric line early on, then multiple times in the middle, and once more at the end.
- Color: Kelly Green.