Please post your ethnopoem (from your transcript or fieldnotes, please indicate which data source it's from) to the class blog by Saturday morning. (Just click on the "comment" button at the bottom of this post and copy & paste your poem into the dialogue box).
If you don't know what I'm referring to, please email me so we can figure out how you might fill in the gaps. (Motivational boost: There are only 5 more weeks in the semester.)
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Interview with Fr. Suarez;
We are so poor,
The poorest church in the diocese.
We are together
We are a community;
Our faith is very strong.
Kisses, smiles, and hugs,
A party:
The meaning of church.
It touches your life.
We are a community.
We are the real church in the presence of God.
We are so poor,
The poorest church in the diocese,
But we are so very rich.
An empty cobblestone street
A single street light
Illuminates the grand building
Royal and elegant
Sounds of chatter
Along a hectic one-way street
A wave of artists
Young and old
Open and free
Full of life, full of energy
We ask to "Support the Campaign"
Our way of life
Don't try to define art
I'm just a person
Everyone makes something
Everyone is creative
I understnad the risks
I'm not oblivious
Building the world you want to live in
That is magical to me
(From the interview with Enid Negrón)
Cancer
Marks your life
Like a rollercoaster
I gotta keep going
She was my motivation
Set priorities straight
Reach out to people
Become like family
Each other's best therapists
Cancer
Marks your life
I needed the support
These are blowing my mind, people. What a gallery!
(Interview with Sammy Costa)
It’s a very close-knit band
We’re all friends
We all drink together
Have fun together
Go out together
I’ve got lifelong friends in that band
It’s a really cool job
There’s really no other jobs out there
It’s an easy job
I get to serve my country
I get to wear the uniform
I intend on staying.
Stacy,
I want to see you complicate this subculture! From reading your poem, I would conclude that Sammy is either daft (serving your country is "easy?") or that this poem overly simplifies the significance of joining the Army to play in a band.
The reason we are spending all this time researching one subculture is so that we can learn enough about them to complicate our understanding, to add texture to our one-dimensional view of them.
Your ethnopoem, even in the smallest way, should point to complexity. Read over your peers' poems and see how they manage to do that. Then, read over your transcript from your interview with Sammy and find a line or a word that you can add to the poem to complicate the issue a bit for the reader.
For folks who haven't posted an ethnopoem yet, note my comments to Stacy!
wow Rachael. Your ethnopoem is amazing =D
Kevin,
You warm your professor's heart by publicly giving your smart classmate a well-deserved compliment. Thank you.
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