About Genre 2: A piece that conveys emotions or imagery. Multiple Intelligences: Linguistic, Musical, Visual-Spatial
Found poetry takes everyday rhetoric and finds poetic qualities and attributes within it. My first found poem is from a New York Times article titled Loved Ones Remember Legacies of Synagogue Shooting Victims, published shortly after the deadly attack that left 11 dead and many more injured. The second poem takes quotes from movies and actors around the idea of how individuals are remembered after death.
Found poetry takes everyday rhetoric and finds poetic qualities and attributes within it. My first found poem is from a New York Times article titled Loved Ones Remember Legacies of Synagogue Shooting Victims, published shortly after the deadly attack that left 11 dead and many more injured. The second poem takes quotes from movies and actors around the idea of how individuals are remembered after death.
Legacies of Victims
Following the deadly mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagog in Pittsburgh on October 27, the New York Times published an article that shifts the focus of the narrative from the event to the lives of the victims. Friends, family, and community members were interviewed and asked how they remembered those they knew who were murdered in their house of worship. The article begins by explaining their successes in their professional lives, but quickly turns to a reflection of their personal lives and the impact they had on those around them. Appropriately, many of the words they used are exactly the types of attributes that are needed to begin the healing process: community, devoted, faith.
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Hollywood, on death
This poem compiles quotes from movies, actors, and other prominent individuals throughout eras and genres to show different takes on legacies. The two sides of the poem denote different tones in the language used towards death and legacies as they come together at the end with a provocative comment concerning the universality of life and death.