Found Poetry using Quotations

This is one of a number of choices that you will be given between now and Monday, April 11.  Blogs need to be ready for assessment on April 18.  "The Power of Poetry" post is another choice.  You will need to make two "choice" posts.

While you are focussing on quotations for your To Kill a Mockingbird assignment, choose one of them to create a "found" poem.

Directions: Build a poem that reflects characters, theme, mood, tone, conflict or any aspect of the novel you are interested in. The poem does not need to directly reflect the novel itself, but should have some relationship to the quotation from the novel. You may use any form you choose for your poetry.

Devices: once you have decided on the structure of your poem, consider how you might play with voice, symbols, alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhythm, rhyme, metaphors and so on.

Model:

On Moral Courage

What is courage?

It's when you know

You're licked before you

Begin

but you begin anyway

and you see it through no matter what.

Conscious and cantakerous

Instead of gun in hand.