Help Ian get a job

[Ian Scuffling]

I have to teach a lesson on poetry to 8th graders on Wednesday. I have not seriously engaged with poetry beyond the occasional skim in a bookshop since an 18th century British poetry class 2 years ago. Can any poets in here help me Don Draper my way into this job

 

[line b]

You should not be don draping 8th graders ian

 

[Corpsey]

Blow their minds by showing them how Playboi Carti is like Wallace Stevens

 

[woops]

You should not be don draping 8th graders ian

wasn't he reading Frank O'Hara?

 

[Murphy]

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[okzharp]

Nettles by Vernon Scannell? Very 'poetry' bit of writing. Quaint military motif, personifying the nettles as a some kind of enemy army. Try and get them to witness the intimacy of the relationship between the dad and his son. The dad is the boy's safe space - when he gets hurt, he seeks safety/reassurance there. The “watery grin”. Then get them to consider the significance of this moment in their lives. The dad coming to terms with the fact that he can't protect his son from the world. And that perhaps real parental love is letting him learn how to deal with pain and fend for himself. But he decides to leave that for another day... so the spectacle of him lashing down all the nettles is pathetic and futile and probably quite lovely and human too. It's the kind of 8th grade stuff they might be contemplating with their own parents so might resonate.

 

[woops]

i happen to know that @okzharp is a qualified and experienced schoolmaster so i endorse his advice

 

[Ian Scuffling]

Blow their minds by showing them how Playboi Carti is like Wallace Stevens

I was thinking of doing something similar with Pope

 

[sufi]

read and regurgitate this they will love it

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[Corpsey]

 

[sus]

ULYSSES by James Tennison for the ambitious lads. Some Dickinson for the gothgirls. The rest aren't worth bothering for.

 

[sus]

And LARP Dead Poets Society yuh. The job's inspiration I assume? They wont' remember any of it. But you've got to breath into their souls you've got to use this opportunity to help kindle some embers. You could change a child's life. Show them how big the world is. Show them what beauty is, what sacredness is. The kind of sensitive, attuned relation a person can have with the world, noticing, attending, caring, distinguishing cases, keeping an eye on the good & the transcendent while being open enough to wonder what that is.

 

[kid charlemagne]

Read them my open mic poems

 

[Ian Scuffling]

Read them my open mic poems

Send them to me

 

[Corpsey]

Blow their minds by taking a 'poetry is shit' stance that they will inevitably rebel against

 

[Corpsey]

This is up there with the alternative national anthem from human traffic as most toe curlingly embarrassing scenes ever filmed

 

[pattycakes_]

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[sus]

This is up there with the alternative national anthem from human traffic as most toe curlingly embarrassing scenes ever filmed

Mr Anderson thinks that everything inside him is worthless and embarrassing. He thinks that being embarrassed is the worst thing that can happen to him.

 

[sus]

Sound barbaric yawp over the roar of the whirl.

 

[sus]

The man is clearly performing an exorcism. Intense interpersonal charge. He takes all your attention so that the rest of the class disappears. He speaks so quickly that your own thoughts can't get through. He induces an altered state of dizzy darkness. More eye contact than you've experienced in years.