EDTC 300 Blogs

 Well, well, well... Here's one of the most popular poetry forms... and one of the shortest.  I remember writing so many haiku in school. However, I don't actually remember how I wrote them. What are haikus? According to Grammarly , my partner this week,  "haiku are short, unrhymed poems that adhere to a specific three-line, seventeen-syllable format. The form originated in Japan, but today people across the globe read and write haiku in many different languages. Because of different languages’ unique syllabic and grammatical structures, haiku have slightly different formats from language to language." The seventeen-syllable format is first line=5, second line=7, and third line=5.  Did you know that 'haiku' was actually 'hokku' and part of collaboration poems called 'renga'?  Did you know that the plural form for haiku can be haiku and haikus? Just for fun, I watched this YouTube video, and it was very helpful.  I followed Ms. Drought's pro...

 I genuinely had no idea ekphrastic poetry was a thing. ' Ekphrasis ' is not something you usually hear.  Well, what is it? Ekphrasis  (ecphrasis) comes from the Greek word meaning 'description.' Basically, ekphrastic poems are vivid descriptions of artworks. These poems don't follow a structure or rhyme scheme. Actually, ekphrastic poems can be written in any other poetry style or found within a poem.   Ekphrastic poetry is not about form, rigidity, or structure, but the connection between poetry and art. I watched Johnny Savage's YouTube video on ekphrastic poetry , and he says, "It's not saying what you see, it's more like what is happening in the picture." Johnny also says, " Go anywhere you can see art: galleries, museums, universities... or go online! And try writing a poem in response to that moment you are looking at that picture ." I like art as much as I like poetry so this style sounded exciting.       I went on Google Arts...

      I remember John Keats' " Ode to a Nightingale " from poetry annotation in grade 10 AP English. It was one of my favorite poems from that class. It was with this poem (and Shakespeare's plays) that I found allusions interesting in poems. I thought they sometimes added a lot more depth than similes and metaphors.  If you couldn't tell by now, I looked into Ode poetry this week, and it started with  Ode - Poetry Foundation . After a few more sites, I surprisingly learned more about odes than I previously did in English class.  An ode is a short lyric poem that praises an individual, an idea, or an event. In ancient Greece, odes were originally accompanied by music—in fact, the word “ode” comes from the Greek word  aeidein , which means to sing or to chant. Odes are often ceremonial, and formal in tone. There are several different types of odes, but they are all highly structured and adhere to poetic forms. ( Masterclass , 2021). What's unique f...

  Cyber safety, huh.  There's one thing that comes to my mind about cyber safety in school, and it's a traumatizing story. 

 I found this week's poetry style enjoyable and frustrating to practice. 

       What stood out to me from  An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube  was Michael Wesh saying, "It's a celebration of new forms of community - types of community that we've never really seen before, global connections transcending space and time. It's a celebration of new and unimaginable possibilities" (4:58).      I don't know if it is hard to believe, but I rarely used tech before we moved to Canada. We honestly weren't fortunate enough, especially since our third-world country was not as advanced then as it is now. I only remember the DVDs, CDs, and developed photographs. My cousin and I were Michael Jackson fanatics, lazying around with the radio on, and then hours later, I was binging on classic Barbie movies. It was overwhelming to see so much technology in Canada. Before school, I would wait for the bus by watching "Bo on the Go!" and other shows on PBS Kids. I was gifted my first iPod when I was eight, and since then, I've re...

 Before I go and make this about me, here is a timeless poem that'll surely introduce you to this week's victor.  "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas