Create poem inspired by dr sean mcdowells

In this assignment, inspired by Dr. Sean McDowell’s “Donne’s Hymns as Invitations to Write,” you will create your own poem based on a “scaffold” or framework provided by a poem by the seventeenth-century poet, John Donne. Your poem does not need to display a grasp of meter or to rhyme (though you can choose to play with these elements as you develop your poem!). Instead, you will base your poem on the rhetorical moves made by the original poem. It is very important that once you have chosen your poetic scaffold you ignore the original poem so it won’t hamper your ability to see all the creative possibilities open to you. You may use the scaffold I have provided below or one of Dr. McDowell’s scaffolds here: Donne’s Hymns as Invitations to Write Handout.pdf Download Donne’s Hymns as Invitations to Write Handout.pdf If you feel inspired by Herbert’s shape poems, you may also try your hand at a shape poem. (In this case, your reflection will consider how the process made you think differently about Herbert’s poetry.) Your poem should go through more than one draft, and you may want to freewrite about possible images, topics, or concepts before you begin to draft based on the scaffold. You may find yourself moving away from some elements of the scaffold a little bit, and that is ok if it becomes necessary for the integrity of your poem. When your poem is in a relatively polished state that you’re reasonably happy with, you will look back at the original poem and compare your poem to Donne’s. Then, you will write a 1.5-2 page (MLA-formatted, double-spaced 12pt Times New Roman) reflection in which you do the following: This assignment is due on Tuesday, Oct. 5 by 1:59 pm as a submission to Canvas. You are very welcome to seek out my advice as you work on your reflection. You may use either of the poem scaffolds suggested by McDowell in his handout, or you may use the option I’ve created below based on Donne’s “The Sun Rising. Address briefly what the process of working on the poem was like for you. How did you approach the project, what were your challenges and breakthroughs, enjoyments and frustrations? (minimum 200 words) Identify how you think your poem relates to or is in conversation with the original poem despite the fact that you were not looking at the original when you were working with the scaffold to create your own poem. Does anything surprise or intrigue you about what the two poems have to say to each other? (minimum 150 words) Reflect on what you feel you have learned about renaissance poetry in particular or poetry in general by completing this exercise. How have your ideas about poetry changed? Are there ideas from our course material on renaissance/early modern poetry that you feel apply in an interesting way to your poem and/or this project? Are there ways in which you felt that following a scaffold based on Donne helped you to understand or think about his poetry differently? If you wrote a shape poem instead of following one of Donne’s scaffolds, how did the process make you think differently about the relationship between form and meaning? (minimum 150 words)