Prompt: You are sitting in a coffee house somewhere, eavesdropping on a conversation held at another table.
Poets are discussing their craft and their concerns. Recreate this conversation. Choose THREE of your favorite
poets from this module and create a dialogue between them. Use a script format so it is clear who says what.
(Aim for a few pages or more. Do not be too brief)
Choose one of the topics below or invent your own focus point:
Why these poets write the way they do
What modern poetry should do
Why these poets’ techniques or themes are important
Readings:
T.S. Eliot, Introduction, “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Ezra Pound Introduction, “A Virginal,” “A Pact, “In a Station at the Metro,” “L’Art, 1910”
Gertrude Stein Introduction, “Preciosilla,” “Ladies Voices,” “Miss Furr and Miss Skeene”
Amy Lowell, Introduction and all poems
ee cummings, Introduction and all poems
William Carlos Williams, Introduction and all poems