Sunday, November 28, 2010
Oral Presentation
I worked all vacation on writing up my oral presentation on powerpoint and finishing up some reading about the poets that I researched. I found it kind of hard to figure out exactly what I liked about them and putting it in slide format. I basically just finished my oral presentation and I am going tomorrow. Being one of the first people that actually has to go, I am kind of nervous and don't really know if I have done the assignment as well as everyone else is going to do it. I did mine on Vladimir Mayakovsky and Gary Snyder, two poets who I really identified with throughout the semester. I chose them because they were my two favorite Notebook entries I did and they ended up being like my best poems I wrote. I have been reading their poetry during workshop and stuff and have been trying to use it to make my poetry better. I still feel like it will never be anywhere near as good as them. So when I am showing their influence on me I think that I am not really doing a good job with it. I really like their poetry but mine is kind of a mix of the two but way worse. The only thing I had trouble with was kind of emulating them and making their poetry reflect in my own work. Hopefully I did a good job, I guess we will find out tomorrow.
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I wouldn't worry about being as good as them. You get to look back on their life's work. You have unlimited potential while their time has already come and gone. I enjoyed your presentation alot. I have a better idea of how I want to do mine.
ReplyDeletei like so many of the poets that we've learned about this semester and so many others that we haven't even touched on that i'm having trouble picking two of them for the oral presentation. i've narrowed it down to a few but of those few i can't decide what to write about. i connect to them all in completely different and personal ways and i'm not sure quite how to put it down in bullets so that my class can understand what i mean. i mean i know i can use examples such as imagery or mood or rhyme, but i feel like just because you use one of those things doesn't mean you connect to the poet. i feel like it should be on a deeper more emotional level. how i connect to my poems, how i connect to their poems, and how i feel like a reader would connect to my poems as well. i guess good luck to everyone getting their ideas down in a coherent manner.
ReplyDeletei agree with elliot, you cant compare yourself to these poets. these are some of the greatest poets we are suppose to be learning from them, and use their work to inspire us to write something that can make you as a writer happy with your own work. i know i dont go around and compare myself to the greatest baseball players ever and i surely wont be doing that to the greatest poets, you just have to see what they have done and challenge yourself to make you as a writer better.
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