Creative Writing

Week OneApril 18, 2023

Alice Y. Chang

yuyenc@mail.cgu.edu.tw03-2118800 #5127

Introduction

Reading materials: Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, William Shakespeare, John Keats, P. B. Shelley, William Blake, and John Donne

Writing Practice: a sonnet, an ode, a short poem, a free verse, and a narrative poem

Course website:http://memo.cgu.edu.tw/yu-yen/creative_writing.htm

Grading policy:

Attendance 36%Five poems (drafts included)

44%recitation and other

following-up activities 20%

Brainstorming!Brainstorming!

What Is “Creative?” (creation, creature, and the like)

What Is “Poetic?” (poem, poet, poetry)

Please jot down some words (ten or twenty words) which you might associate with the adjectives creative and poetic.

creativecreative artistic, clever, cool, demiurgic, fertile,

formative, gifted, ingenious, innovational, innovative, innovatory, inspired, inventive, original, originative, productive, prolific, stimulating, visionary, beautiful, aesthetic, cultivated, cultured, decorative, dramatic, elegant, exquisite, fine, graceful, grand, harmonious, ideal, imaginative, musical, ornamental, pictorial, picturesque, pleasing, poetic, refined, rhythmical, satisfying, sensitive, stimulating, stylish, sublime, tasteful

Poetic

beautiful, dactylic, dramatic, elegiac, epic, epical, iambic, idyllic, imaginative, lyric, lyrical, melodious, metrical, rhythmical, romantic, songlike, tuneful

Language speaks you!

To build a bridge between you and language. To construct a way to explore your life. To approach a felicitous life. To know yourself.

More . . .

Books in CGU LibraryRobert Frost : A Collection of Critical Es

says / edited by James M. Cox. Cox , James M. The Cambridge companion to Robert F

rost / edited by Robert Faggen. Faggen , Robert. << 雪晚林邊歇馬 >> / 羅伯 . 佛洛斯特文 ; 蘇珊 . 傑佛斯圖 ; 余光中譯 .

Stopping By Woods On A Snowy EveningStopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening Whose woods these are I think I know.

His house is in the village though;He will not see me stopping hereTo watch his woods fill up with snow.My little horse must think it queerTo stop without a farmhouse nearBetween the woods and frozen lakeThe darkest evening of the year.

2 He gives his harness bells a shakeHe gives his harness bells a shake

To ask if there is some mistake.To ask if there is some mistake.

The only other sound's the sweepThe only other sound's the sweep

Of easy wind and downy flake.Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.The woods are lovely, dark and deep.

But I have promises to keep,But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep. And miles to go before I sleep.

The Road Not Taken Robert Frost

1. Listen to the poem http://www.poets.org/poems/poems.cfm?45442B7C000C07030D76

2. Read it again and again.3. Give your comments or response.4. Share your ideas with classmates.

1

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I

could To where it bent in the undergrowth;

2

Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted

wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the

same,

3

And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to

way, I doubted if I should ever come back.

4

I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I– I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

Choice and Judgment

A Thematic Approach

Homework

1. a picture to show the relationship between image, imagination, imaginative, and magic

2. Read more by/about Robert Frost 3. Poetry is sunshine / ____________/

poems are rain-drops, / __________ 4. edit notes (written in class) 5. Write the entire poem and find

out the poet’s name. . .