Visual Poetry, Spoken Word and Art  Research different Artist who use poetry in their Art

 Explore the illustrations and book of poems by Shel

For this week’s art project students will Silverstein
be creating art based off of a poem. Read  Create a work of Art based off of a song
the included poems and select one from
here or one from your own exploration. Knowledge and Standards
Next look at the examples of art and
 Different media presentations of the same story can affect the
poetry included. Create your own work way we experience it (tone, meaning, etc)
of art inspired by or in response to your  Poetry can bring awareness to an issue that seems outside of
selected poem. Include a selection of ourselves
poem into your art. Take advantage of  (ELA 9.4.7.7) Analyze the representation of a subject or a key
the many art opportunities (drawing, scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is
painting, collage, digital art, photography, video etc.). Make sure to emphasized or absent in each treatment
include which poem you used when turning in through email your  (Visual Arts 9.1.2.2.1 1) Integrate tools, materials, and techniques
to create original products for artistic purposes.
art piece. Lastly upload a photo of work and email it to instructions.
Poems and Art Image Examples
Steps for Project:
1. “If I can stop one heart from breaking” by Emily Dickinson
 Read all instructions and poems
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain;
 Review all art examples images
If I can
 Select one of the poems included
ease
 Pick a portion or some lines of poem and include it in your
one
art
life the
 Choose your colors, images, design, feeling and subject in
aching,
response to poem
Or cool
 Create a work of art in response to poem
one
 Take Photo of work or digital file and email to instructor by
9/10/21

Extended work (not required)

 Create a work of art inspired by a poem you have written

 pain, Or fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in unemotional… punks Sorry – you also taught me to speak
vain. French I learnt it when you kept keeping me at arms-length
And then I learnt Italian just to expand my head And Greek
to learn from where my ancestors had fled And then I learnt
2. “Please Resist Me” by Luka Lesson Please resist some Yanyuwa just to show the people of this land some
me Colonise me, compromise respect You see it’s been your example that has led me to
me, conflict me Please don’t risk leave you for dead So don’t trust me I’m risky
me If you see me at the airport Insurmountable, unaccountable I’m an undeniable,
please come and frisk me Please unreliable, maniacal liability I fire soliloquies and my
resist me Colonise me, liturgies literally leave a literary litany You see When I was
compromise me and conflict me little They told me I was illegitimate, illiterate and limited
Please don’t risk me Please call Little did they know that in a minute I’d be killing it I’m vivid
me stupid Because your like in cinemas so my synonym is vividness I stick it like I’m
resistance brings our evolution cinnamon and kill it like a militant I live it like a citizen – you
Please resist me Call me a ‘wog’ live a life like imprisonment Besides Indigenous immigrant
It’s brought us so close together I could call me a squad might be the most
Please resist me Lock me in solitary confinement I’ll close legitimate of
my eyes and admire the quality of the silence I’ll write citizens So it’s
rhymes in my mind honestly and define them Solidly better to live a life like
redefine and memorise them Until like a diamond when I us… Isn’t it?
come out I’ll be better than when I arrived in Please resist
me Keep me under the thumb Keep me down trodden Keep
me under the gun Keep me working harder under thunder 3. “The Laughing
and sun Son, haven’t you heard? I’m becoming a gun Please Heart” by Charles
resist me Because resistance brings evolution and you’ve Bukowski
resisted me consistently I thank you for your contribution Your life is your life
I’m a happy man Your stupidity has made me strong I’ve don’t let it be
developed wings, a thick skin and this here opposable clubbed into dank
thumb It holds my pen which loads my explodable tongue submission. be on the
So without loading a gun I’m killing high quotas of watch. there are
 ways out. there is the land, That is parched with the
light somewhere. it heat that robbed the land of, The
may not be much last drop of water, one cannot stop
light but it beats or think, For the feet are either in
the darkness. be on the sand or in the air, To save the
the watch. the gods very last and precious drop of life,
will offer you Only if there were water amongst
chances. know the lands, the rocks, The land
them. take them. would not have been susceptible
you can’t beat to carrions, There would have
death but you can been no silence in the mountains,
eat death in life, With the noise of the flow of the
sometimes. and the stream, that would, Have turned
more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. the sterile ground breeding fertile,
your life is your life. know it while you have it. you are alas! There is not even loneliness in the places dried, the
marvelous the gods wait to delight in you. 4. “The Water people, Their reddish morose faces peeking from the mud
Crisis” by Sanjeev Kumar The summers are back, the thatches; Only if there were water, plenty of those and no
hotness is back, Expect the wake of the atmosphere harsh, sand, no dust, But more water, spring, and pools among the
To see the geography that abounds in nature, But the heat mountains, the rocks, And the sound of the rain-bearing
makes up; here is no water, only hope, That the rain would clouds to make the nature happy.
fall and make the earth alive, There is rock, stones, and the
roads that are dust-laden, Those are alive for now, the
travel through them winds, Among the curvaceous
mountains, yes! So curved, that you almost lurch off into
the dike, Every now and then, rocky spaces, structures
without, Water; should the animals, the birds and the
humans not, Stop and drink if there were some, but the
rocks are dry, The sands are dry, the channels are dry, and
the sky is dry. Only thing that is wet is our own self, but
even the sweat, Threatens to go dry leaving the skin dry like