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    jcrilley created the site Digital 3D Studio 5 months ago

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    jcrilley wrote a new post, Final Illustration Project, on the site English 215 – Poetry 6 months, 1 week ago

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    Critical Appendix

    Process

    For my final project, I decided to make a Flarf poem, because using the results from online seemed like an interesting […]

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    jcrilley wrote a new post, Found Poetry Recap Post, on the site English 215 – Poetry 6 months, 1 week ago

    This week’s poetry discussion was really engaging, since not only did I get to be creative, but also got to see what everyone else took from the same basic information. The word limit was also very nice, since the […]

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    jcrilley wrote a new post, Visual Poetry vs. Graphic Design, on the site English 215 – Poetry 6 months, 2 weeks ago

    When looking at Graphic Design and Visual Poetry, it’s difficult to parse the difference. Even as someone going into visual arts, I’m having a difficult time. Both encompass a wide range of expression and both use […]

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    jcrilley wrote a new post, Poetry Without People?, on the site English 215 – Poetry 6 months, 2 weeks ago

    For most of human history, poetry has been an auditory medium. Think about it — the invention of written language is relatively new, and even then widespread literacy only became possible after the the invention […]

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    jcrilley wrote a new post, Keats and Decreation, on the site English 215 – Poetry 6 months, 2 weeks ago

    So, no one really loves to think of death, but we all have questions. What happens after? What will I miss most? Is it better or worse to be dead than alive?

    A number of poems this week deal with these […]

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    jcrilley wrote a new post, "SOS" Consensus, on the site English 215 – Poetry 6 months, 3 weeks ago

    This week’s discussion of “SOS” was definitely one of my favorites, since we got to experience a very visual poem in a multimedia context. A lot of people (including myself) noted having very different experiences […]

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    jcrilley wrote a new post, Ekphrastic vs Concretist, on the site English 215 – Poetry 6 months, 3 weeks ago

    Ekphrastic and Concretist poems feel like cousins. They both involve a certain amount of self-reflectivity as works of art/literature, but they do it in very different ways. For an Ekphrastic poem like “The Shield […]

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    jcrilley wrote a new post, Ekphrastic Poem: The Shield of Achilles, on the site English 215 – Poetry 6 months, 3 weeks ago

    (Note for Netvibes– for some reason netvibes is only showing the very early draft of my Fakepoets 2 post. To see the actual post, go directly to my blog)

    As an Ekphrastic poem, “The Shield of Achilles” […]

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    jcrilley wrote a new post, Fakepoets 2, on the site English 215 – Poetry 6 months, 4 weeks ago

    For this Fakepoets activity, it was really interesting to see how people thought of their characters. I’ll admit that I had a really hard time with my animal (the buck from “The Most of It”), since I couldn’t find […]

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    jcrilley wrote a new post, Midterm Practice; The Black Swan, on the site English 215 – Poetry 7 months ago

    In James Merrill’s “The Black Swan,” the speaker notices the startlingly ironic blackness of a swan (which normally is white) within a particularly beautiful setting as a sublime example of nature’s ability […]

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    jcrilley wrote a new post, Visual Imagery Discussion, on the site English 215 – Poetry 7 months ago

    On Tuesday, we discussed the imagery of the fourth stanza of the poem “Sailing to Byzantium” by W.B. Yeats. It reads:

    “Once out of nature I shall never take

    My bodily form from any natural thing,

    But such […]

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    jcrilley wrote a new post, Once by the Pacific Illustration, on the site English 215 – Poetry 7 months, 1 week ago

    “The shattered water made a misty din.

    Great waves looked over others coming in,

    And thought of doing something to the shore

    That water never did to land before.

    The clouds were low and hairy […]

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    jcrilley wrote a new post, The Flea Close Reading, on the site English 215 – Poetry 7 months, 1 week ago

    Coming into the poem, I thought it was written in 1996 because of the anthology date, so imagine my surprise when I looked up the poet and he was born in 1572. So, some of my initial questions about the […]

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    jcrilley wrote a new post, Kissing in Vietnamese Gloss, on the site English 215 – Poetry 7 months, 2 weeks ago

    “My grandmother kisses

    as if bombs are bursting in the backyard,

    where mint and jasmine lace their perfumes

    through the kitchen window,

    as if somewhere, a body is falling apart

    and flames […]

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    jcrilley wrote a new post, Fakepoets Overview, on the site English 215 – Poetry 7 months, 2 weeks ago

    “School is out, We

    Still scout. We

    Play games.We

    Take names.We

    Not home. We

    Walk, we roam. We

    Get sick. We

    Die quick.”

    -Saiara

    I think that this addition to the poem “We Real Cool” is […]

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    jcrilley wrote a new post, Persona Comparison, on the site English 215 – Poetry 7 months, 3 weeks ago

    When looking for other personae for comparison, I was struck by Saiara’s post on “Not Waving but Drowning.” I was surprised to see someone use a historical figure as their persona instead of a fictional character. […]

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    jcrilley wrote a new post, "Corinna's Gone A-Maying" Illustration, on the site English 215 – Poetry 7 months, 3 weeks ago

    When I read this poem, I immediately thought of the song “Elle me dit” by MIKA. The song talks about the speaker’s discussions with his mother where she tells him to enjoy his life while he can. In fact, the […]

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    jcrilley wrote a new post, Woodchucks Illustration, on the site English 215 – Poetry 7 months, 3 weeks ago

    For this persona, I thought that Nicole Kidman from the movie Destroyer was an apt choice. While I haven’t seen the film, I did watch the trailer and Kidman’s character seems driven to violence by deep anger and […]

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    jcrilley wrote a new post, Slack Discussion Summary, on the site English 215 – Poetry 7 months, 4 weeks ago

    “I’d add that poems are often metaphorical or symbolic, and are structured by stanzas” — Alyssa

    Alyssa posted this early on in the discussion, snd I think that it is a good example of the classes initial […]

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