Saying What Can't Be Said: Three Startling Poetry Exercises.

DePoy, Phillip

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Publication Date: 1990

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Saying What Can't Be Said: Three Startling Poetry Exercises.

DePoy, Phillip

Teachers and Writers Magazine, v21 n3 p1-4 Jan-Feb 1990

Describes three poetry-writing exercises that encourage students to break from linear, normal thinking patterns: answering questions that have no answers; describing impossible objects; and contemplating infinity. (MM)

Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Poetry, Student Writing Models, Teaching Methods, Writing Exercises, Writing Instruction

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Language: English

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