Question to everyone in Dr. Prestons Amercan liturature class, Dr. Preston himself, or One of the T A's. Just anyone related that happens to be looking at this.

Do you think it would be cool if every week when we get our new vocab list we (the class or people in the class who can, or like to, write poems) could have the option of writing a poem with vocabulary words included and receive a small amount of extra credit.

I'm a poet and I know it!

Time to write another whack-ass-verse,
Rehearse this shit that I speak, so meek, like a rat under the sink. CREEEEEEEEEEEK! Watchout looks like we let the out the rat, someone go grab the cat-in-the-hat. " Meow" mr cat I like your hat, I like your fat, and I like your mat you set down. Dang cat you sure are chunky, little fat cat can't move cause he eats to much. (frown). LOVELY, Now i have a fat cat, you should see him get on the scales. Holy crap Cat how do you expect to get any of the females ? Kitty youll be so lonely youll run yourself off the rails. So there's the Kitty going crazy while franks just being lazy and no one remembers this cause your memories to hazy but I like my donuts glazy so get to it. By the wayzee I'm out cause this poem is hard but that's okay-see, It took an hour but I made a poem. Now I'm fresh like Edgar Allen Po -hyms that I speak on this paper, so you can read it later, please don't be a hater. K bye I love you

Greatly appreciated. I know that it was lame but it's better than some of the poems I read so.... Yeah.... Go frank

Spring semester plan 1

My plan for this semester and probably the rest of the year is to get on my school work and everything else in my life. As of lately I haven't done much of anything with my life, I've skipped school a lot, I haven't done any of my homework, I barely got through half of drivers Ed, just stuff like that. Looking back on it Its something I would like to fix this semester. I wanna get organized and motivated to do my school work and finish drivers Ed and get a job. I just wanna get all my stuff together. Also I'd like to become a better writer/songwriter. My grammar is terrible. I'd like to fix that in this class. Other goals I have that are different from school is to get better at guitar (because I've only been playing for 4 months), start to learn keyboard sometime in the next six months, to start on the bass guitar soon, to continue playing drums, and figure out whether or not I can sing because I've never taken the time to develop my voice to see of I actually can sing. Those goals have nothing to do with schooling but theyre just things I'd like to do in the coming semester/year.

Spring post 1: Music as liturature.

I think we can consider music literature. Every song is different like every book they have all their own style. Really the only thing that makes poems, raps, country music, and other forms of music different is the tone in how it's said and how the artists delivers the song or poem

To lazy to make a beat so let's put words on paper and see how it goes.

It doesn't take much to write a track

Just that I'm not a rapper so stage presence is one thing that I lack

So here I give this song to you

To interpret any way you choose

And in this poem of sorts one might ask

If I'm not just pulling this out of my


...brain...

See what I did there not all lines have to rhyme

Dang this song would sound cool with some chimes

But there I go with this useless conversation

Seems to me like swagger like mine has been sweeping the nation

"Hi how are you?"
"Tired but it's 3 in the morning and I've finally begun to create."

My first rhymes are coming and you get to sit back and spectate

So sit back and watch I'll be here for a while

And if you don't like the song maybe the beats more your style

But if you do like my weird approach to this I ask you to take this as your own

Whatever sound in your head should be let known

Tell me, tell your partner, tell your dog, tell, tell your mom at home

"Frank sucks at writing poems and his face looks like a gnome."

Or you could tell them you like the few verse I've shown you

Maybe it was interesting, or even new

By any case I'm happy with this outcome

Though my poem makes no sense, but it's something to turn in

This poem is the product of all my self reliance

Left on my own I still managed to find a way to find this

Boom! This is my final I hope you found it exiting

If not this took like 5 hours so I wouldn't be minding..

...it. And a round of applause for the one and the only Frank

Seemed to pull this off in the brink of time, didn't even need a shake

And also as a class I'd like to thank you all for sitting through this

Oh and that I'd kiss each and everyone one of you, but you all smell like cat pis...

Yarn!

Got you again with my sick nasty rhymes

Being this funny really should be a crime

Okay well I'm done it's time for me to leave

Let's see what next I pull out of my...
Butt.

Dream within a dream

I thought the poem was really confusing he loses me with the way he speaks. To me it makes me think of a typical love poem. All this talk about dreams within dreams and how love can take you to that state of Euphoria where you can't tell if it's a dream or real life because it feels so real and so tangible even though you know it's a dream your mind wants it to be real.

Vocab 9/17/12

1. allude-to refer to something the author thinks you should know

clairvoyant- able to read mind

3.conclusive- final or decisive. to conclude

4.disreputable- of a poor reputation

5.endemic- native to an enviorment

6.exemplary-Serving as a desirable model; representing the best of its kind

7.fathom- nodical measure of depth. to understand

8.guile-trick

9. Integrity- doing what you say your gonna do.

10.itinerary-trip schedule or plan

11.misconstrue-to misunderstand

12.obnoxious-rude, loud annoying

13.placate- to calm down

14.placid-calm

15.plagiarism-taking someones writing without consent of the author

16.potent-powerful, strong

17.pretext- an excuse. text before the text

18.protrude-to speakout

19.stark-easy to see

20.superficial-shallow