Firestarter Challenge (9/21/07)
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. “You have to always be drunk.” from Be Drunk by Charles Baudelaire.
- Imagery: Smell of mildew.
- Form: Epigram. The best definition is an Epigram by Samuel Coleridge: What is an Epigram? A dwarfish whole, / Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
- Music: Use the rhyme scheme ABCABC in sestets of four metrical feet.
- Color: Cobalt.