"TO HAVE GREAT POETS, THERE MUST BE GREAT AUDIENCES."



~ Walt Whitman




Thursday, October 7, 2010

Tristan Dennis

(Please Read The Following Poem Fast With An Energetic Attitude):

   Music jumps off the page differently on different days:  if it's sunny it will shine if its dreary it doesn't rhyme.  It's attitude that plays the piece and how much practice is applied each week.  Emotion and life must be placed in the tune, articulation and dynamics is what makes it boom.  Music is like writing in some cases you see, it allows your little world to obey what you say.  Some pieces flail up and down like a babies arms while the metronome clicks and taps. 
  
     Without the music the world would be silent.  Tchaikovsy, Rossini, and all 14 Bachs would be quiet.  Easy compositions have been written for children, except for the Beethovens who were excellent musicians.  For a simile these musicians played music so frequent, like kids today play video games for easement. 

     Composing must be a different story to read, more theory, practice, and knowledge you must be.  Playing a piece is like baking a cake, people try a piece and relish what thieve received; sometimes they come back for seconds, and sometimes even thirds, but this just means they have enjoyed what they have heard.

-Tristan R. Dennis 

5 comments:

  1. I really liked how you described music/composing as a more expansive and complex type of writing and how you described musicians/composers writing a song like a kid playing video games.

    I thought that you could've added some alliteration and personification.

    1)tune, boom, compositions, musicians, frequent, easement, thirds, heard
    2)happy, energetic, lively
    3)theory, easement, articulation
    4)"if it's sunny it will shine"
    5)I didn't see any alliteration
    6)I didn't see any internal rhyme
    7)"Music jumps off the page"
    8)"articulation and dynamics is what makes it BOOM"

    MR. Tanner Cain

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  2. I liked the idea of using music for the poem, and I liked how you mentioned other musicians in the poem.

    What could help is if you added more similies/metaphors, and perhaps a little more onomatopoiea.

    1)Rhyme words
    2)Musical, cerative, historic, and happy
    3)Theory, easement, dreary
    4)Playing a piece is like a piece of cake, people try a piece and relish what they see
    5)Yes, line 1 into line 2
    6)Yes, line 1 into line 2
    7)I don't see any personification
    8)When talking about the tune, articulation, and dynamics of the music
    Adam McKnight

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  3. 1) The poem is about music, composing, and how the world percieves it.
    2) One question for line 10 is what kind of knowledge do you need to become a musician?
    3) One question for the 1st stanza is what kind of music would you consider to "flail up"?
    4) One question I have about the entire poem is do you have such a great understanding for music because you play an instrument?


    "Music is like writing" is a simile.
    "Some pieces flail up and down like a baby's arms" is a simile.
    "These musicians played music so frequent, like kids today play video games for easement" is a simile.
    "Playing a piece is like baking a cake" is a simile.

    Shine- Bright, happy, overachieved, bubbly, sunny.


    -Rachel Tallman

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  4. My favorite image is the pieces flailing up and down like a baby's arms. What a great image that creates-- like you want the piece to go somewhere but you don't have the experience and control yet to take it there.

    What if you played a bit with the shape of the lines? What did your wordle turn this into?

    Dr. Benson

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  5. 1. This poem is about music.
    2.One question I have about line 1. How will it shine?
    3. One question I have for stanza 2 is how do they use viedo games for easement?
    4. One question I have for the entire poem is how did you come up with your wording so well?
    5.Yes, there are 4 uese of simle/ metaphors. they were Music is like writing,Some pieces flail up and down like a babies arms while the metronome clicks and taps,like kids today play video games for easement and Playing a piece is like baking a cake.
    Music - notes, batch, singing, playing, instuments, radio,sheet music and words

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