Visual Found Poetry in Honor of Artist Karen Whimsy
Found Poetry Word Generator
Karen Whimsy - Book of Happiness
Found Poetry Word Generator
Karen Whimsy - Book of Happiness
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BELOW: Student Examples
A “found poem” is one that is created using only words, phrases, or quotations that have been selected and rearranged from another text or passage. To create found poems, one must choose language that is particularly meaningful or interesting to you and organize the language around a theme or message.
There are many different approaches to crafting a found poem and we encourage you to play with the different techniques. Some of our favorites are Erasures, Cut-ups, and the Cento.
There are many different approaches to crafting a found poem and we encourage you to play with the different techniques. Some of our favorites are Erasures, Cut-ups, and the Cento.
BELOW: VIDEO INSTRUCTIONS AND INSPIRATION
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BIG IDEA:
Students compose found and parallel poems based on descriptive literary passages and combine with artistic imagery while becoming emotionally involved in the content. |
ACTIVITY #1 & 2
REQUIREMENTS: Read and explore the words and imagery from Karen Whimsy's the art of Happiness and answer the below questions:
REQUIREMENTS: Create at least one found poetry artwork that displays overall effort and craftsmanship:
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ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How might one find new meaning within existing words?
KEY KNOWLEDGE and UNDERSTANDING: One of the strongest ways to teach students about how poets and poetry works is to encourage them to write their own poetry. It is possible to integrate historical events and have the influence of artistic styles as well.
The advantage of found poems is that "you don't start from scratch. All you have to do is find some good language and ‘improve' it". Poems hide in things you and others say and write. They lie buried in places where language isn't so self-conscious as ‘real poetry' often is. This process of recasting the text they are reading in a different genre helps students become more insightful readers and develop creativity in thinking, writing and making art.
Students will:
REAL WORLD CONNECTIONS:
KEY KNOWLEDGE and UNDERSTANDING: One of the strongest ways to teach students about how poets and poetry works is to encourage them to write their own poetry. It is possible to integrate historical events and have the influence of artistic styles as well.
The advantage of found poems is that "you don't start from scratch. All you have to do is find some good language and ‘improve' it". Poems hide in things you and others say and write. They lie buried in places where language isn't so self-conscious as ‘real poetry' often is. This process of recasting the text they are reading in a different genre helps students become more insightful readers and develop creativity in thinking, writing and making art.
Students will:
- respond to various literary genres using interpretive and evaluative processes
- Create artistic visual applications with words
- apply conventions of grammar and language usage
- recognize poetic elements
- practice creating found poetry
REAL WORLD CONNECTIONS:
- Franze Stenzel describes the Dadaism movement with its ready-made philosophy as a predecessor for the practice that later became found poetry. Dadaists like Duchamp placed everyday practical objects in an environment that was aesthetic and in so doing called into question that object as art, the observer, the aesthetic environment and the definition of what is art.
- Stylistically, found poetry is similar to the visual art of "appropriation" in which two- and three-dimensional art is created from recycled items, giving ordinary/commercial things new meaning when put within a new context in unexpected combinations or juxtapositions.