Self-Portrait as Someone Else

1. Spent 15 or 20 minutes reading and thinking about one (not all) of the following websites:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3h93.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3h459.html

http://members.authorsguild.net/ipetenelson/a_more_unbending_battle_80095.htm

http://members.authorsguild.net/ipetenelson/left_for_dead_78720.htm


2. Do something else for a while.

3. Write a 15-line poem from the point of view of an individual involved in what you have just studied. Make each line contain between 9 and 12 syllables. Make the last word of line 8 rhyme (or slant-rhyme) with the last word of line 1. Make the first word of line 15 rhyme (or slant-rhyme) with the first word of line 2. Make the last word of line 14 rhyme (or slant-rhyme) with the first word of line 10.