Landscape With The Fall of Icarus
Step #1. Choose what you want your poem to be about! Here are some ideas to get you started:
Write about something from your own experience, a person you care about, or a powerful memory.
Experiment with ekphrasis– writing inspired by art! Make observations & draw inferences from one of these paintings and build your poem that way:
Pieter Bruegel the Elder “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus”
Frida Kahlo’s “My Dress Hangs There”
Federico Andreotti’s “Afternoon Tea”
Describe a sensory experience with your poem. Here are some examples from “Creative Writing Now”:
Write about the taste of an egg, an orange, medicine, cinnamon
Write about the smell of burning food, melting snow, the ocean, your grandparents’ home, the inside of a bus, pavement after the rain
Write about the sound of a radio changing channels, a dog howling, a football or baseball game, your parents talking in another room
Write about the sight of lit windows in a house when you’re standing outside at night, someone you love when he or she doesn’t know you’re watching, a dying plant, shadows on snow
Write about the feeling of grass under bare feet, a really bad kiss, the headrush when you stand up too fast, sore muscles, falling asleep in the back seat of a moving car.
Step #2. Write your poem! Be sure to follow these guidelines:
Choose your words carefully; use strong verbs and specific nouns to create imagery and express ideas and emotions.
It should be between 12 to 24 lines long; carefully consider additional “graphic elements” of the poem which include line length, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling to help express ideas
Include a minimum of six poetic devices in your poem:
Sound devices (choose three):
alliteration
assonance
onomatopoeia
repetition
rhyme
rhythm/meter
rhyme scheme
Figurative language (choose three):
literary allusion
metaphor
personification
pun
simile
hyperbole
imagery
Be sure to add your CMW link to your document: How To Submit to CMW
Step #3. At the bottom of your poem, clearly identify which 6 poetic devices (sound devices and figurative language) you used. For more information on Landscape With The Fall of Icarus check on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape_with_the_Fall_of_Icarus
