“The Herefordshire Landscape” purely evokes a sense of place because of it’s non-specific description of any specific country area or social situation. It is merely a poetic description of a landscape.
“Slough” makes a social comment about progress and place as it is a poem that is talking about WWII or another social war. You can see this because of it’s description on how the area should be bombed because it has already been mostly destroyed anyways.
“The Lost Land” speaks about a place in relation to identity and exile, as it specifically talks about “Dublin Bay” and “Ireland” so you know it’s site-specific.
Poetry from the Greek word “poiesis”=”making” is a form of literary art which uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic meaning.
It magnifies a moment, a feeling, an image, or an experience.
Most poems tell stories.
“Poetry is not made to be sucked up like a child’s milkshake, is it much better sipped like a precious malt whisky” (Fry, 2007, p.xxii)
Theme
Themes are ideas explored in creative writing. A theme can be a premise, a feeling, an image, or an experience.
In stories writers start with plot and character and then let the plot emerge, whilst in poetry theme is used as a starting point to evoke expression.
Meaning: “In storytelling, an archetype is a character who represents a specific set of universal, recognizable behaviors.”
Examples of Archetypes:
The Warrior: aka the man with the plan. The hero of the story, who’s a warrior. i.e. Hercules from Hercules
The Child: Innocent naive characters who see the world is a lovely happy light until relatively hits them. i.e. Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz.
The Joker: the jockster or the clown of the story, the one who cracks all the jokes and is happy and loves to live in the moment: i.e. Tiger from Winnie the Pooh
The Creator: these characters feel the need to make something of themselves or make some sort of impact on the world. i.e. Alexander Hamilton from Hamilton
Ordinary World: The young rebellious teenager Jaclyn attends high school in Brooklyn, New York. She lives with her father and her little brother Christian, and she’s a struggling drug addict.
Call to Adventure: Jaclyn isn’t able to pay her drug dealer the money she owns him, so her drug dealer (Jake) decides to give an alternative solution where Jaclyn becomes a drug dealer for him.
Refusal of the Call: Jaclyn refuses as she doesn’t want to put herself into more danger and more risk of being arrested then she already is in.
Meeting with the Mentor: When Jaclyn is face with her dealer Jake she realises that either she deals for Jake or she loses everything and everyone she’s ever loved.
Crossing the First Threshold: Jaclyn’s first task is it work through all of Jake’s clients and deal to anyone he tells her to.
Act II:
Tests, Allies, Enemies: Jaclyn very quickly figures out who her friends and enemies are, she meets our second main character Robyn who seems to care about jaclyn and tries to help her get out of the drug dealing deal she has with Jake.
Approach to the Inmost Cave: One afternoon Jaclyn goes over to Robyn’s house and discovers that Robyn’s father is a police officer, he finds out about Jaclyn’s situation and proposes are scenario to her.
Ordeal: Once Jaclyn speaks with Robyn’s father she discovers that she can help bring Jake to justice. Jaclyn is now faced with the difficult task of incriminating Jake before he finds out she’s a “rat.”
Reward: Jaclyn is about to take Jake down with the help of Robyn’s father and he is sent to prison.
Act III:
The Road Back: Jaclyn enters rehab and works slowly through her addiction, she struggles going in an out of rehab but it on the road back home.
Resurrection: She finally is able to kick her addiction and go through rehab properly.
Return with the Elixir: Jaclyn returns home from rehab after a year of sobriety and fighting her demons. She returns to Robyn and her father to thank them a final time for all the help they had done for her.
Ordinary World: Lead Character “Sara”’s mother just died. Her mother died in a car accident when she was speeding down the highway to get to her daughter’s Julliard entry audition.
Call to Adventure: Sara is then forced to move homes, and move and live with her deadbeat father who never care doubt her until now because her mother is now dead. This is her “call to adventure” as this move changes her life.
Refusal of the Call: Her refusal of the call is the fact that Sara quit ballet dancing after her mother died because she felt responsible for her death.
Meeting with the Mentor: The “mentor” who she meets is a fellow classmate (Derek) of her who she initially finds annoying and irritating but then decides to start practice dancing hip hop with him. And she slowly falls in love with him
Crossing the First Threshold: The first threshold that has to be crossed is the fact that both Derek and Sara fall in love with each other and start dating but Derek is black and Sara is white and during this time period and in this area of the country black and white people dating is not supported by many.
Act II:
Tests, Allies, Enemies: All the allies and enemies are reviled when Sara enters her new high school, and when she starts dating Derek.
Approach to the Inmost Cave: Derek takes Sara to a ballet show as a date, and Sara is faced with a lot to process as she watches professionals performing the same way she once wanted to.
Ordeal: After they leaves the show Sara and Derek get into a small argument and this is where Derek finds out exactly why Sara no longer dances even though it is what she loves (because she feels responsible for her mother’s death).
Reward: After her discussing with Derek, Sara is rewarded with the realisation that her mother’s death wasn’t her fault and the guilt she has for it slowly leaves her.
Act III:
The Road Back: Sara now starts working very hard to prepare for her next dance audition for Juilliard.
Resurrection: Inbetween the “Ordeal” and the “Road Back” Derek and Sara temporarily break up, but on the night of Sara’s Juilliard recital Derek realises that he is still in love with Sara and runs all the way across town to make sure he is there at her recital.
Return with the Elixir: Sara finally gets into Juilliard, and gets back together with Derek.
List of things: Articles about Battle of Orgreave, song lyrics, instagram posts, heard music, non-specific conversations, watching Netflix movies and tv shows.
How many stories are contained within your list? There are stories within the lyrics of the songs, and stories in the movies and shows I watched. There is a story behind everything.
What would you consider to be art? The music and lyrics I’ve been listening to and the movies and tv shows I’ve seen.
What makes writing art? Creative writing and writing that can paint a picture in your mind of what there is around the world etc. is what is believe is incredibly artistic and creative so it is art.
Reasons why people read? For research on a country, or topic, etc. for pleasure/enjoyment, because they have to for work or school, because they want to escape the real world.
Reasons why people write? Because they enjoy it, because they have to write reports for work or school, because they have no other way to express their emotions, because they have no one to speak to so they write.
Similarities between lists? Yes there are a few, like the ons related to work of school.
What stands out from his work? Most of his pieces are all very similar to the “A Place Beyond Belief” piece in the sense that they all have the same billboard style writing and different unique quotes that can all be interpreted, once again, in many different ways.
There is a clear connection between his pieces that being each has these fairy light messages in them that could mean a number of different things.
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