{"id":1464,"date":"2014-08-25T00:55:16","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T04:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/?page_id=1464"},"modified":"2018-06-20T12:43:08","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T16:43:08","slug":"prompt-12a","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/wits\/prompts\/prompt-12a\/","title":{"rendered":"PROMPT #12"},"content":{"rendered":"

EKPHRASIS<\/strong>
\nfor EN 455<\/p>\n

Ekphrastic poetry is poetry written in response to a work of art, such as a painting, photograph, or musical composition.<\/p>\n

For this prompt, go to the Museum of Modern Art’s online collection, accessible here<\/a>. The Collection includes more than 45,000 works that you can view online with a click of the button. If there is a particular artist, medium, or artistic period that interests you, be sure to utilize the Search Filter feature. Find a work of art that truly compels you and write an ekphrastic poem inspired by the piece. You can also choose to write a poem inspired by one of the supplemental paintings below.<\/p>\n

When it’s time to use this prompt with Exclusive Ink, we will provide several books of artwork for the Shortridge students to browse. Help guide your student to a work of art that really speaks to her\/him. Have the student write an ekphrastic poem inspired by the piece.<\/p>\n

SUPPLEMENT<\/h3>\n

Jean-Michel Basquiat Riding with Death<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"riding-with-death\"<\/a>Kevin Young “Riding with Death”<\/strong><\/p>\n

The bit
\nof bones beneath
\nhim, reined\u2014<\/p>\n

he mounts
\nDeath
\n1\/2 bleached back\u2014<\/p>\n

a brown body out-
\nlined on linen.
\nSPINE. TORSO. SIN<\/p>\n

HUESO. He\u2019s
\ntoo through
\nwith this merry-<\/p>\n

go-round\u2014the clowns\u2014
\nthe giant stuffed
\nanimals to win<\/p>\n

or take your picture
\nwith\u2014the pony rides
\n& overpriced<\/p>\n

food. There\u2019s always
\na unicycle.
\nHis hands turned<\/p>\n

forks, tuning,
\nfeeding what hunger
\nheld him together<\/p>\n

this long. Trawling
\nhis own stomach.
\nTripe. The snipe hunt<\/p>\n

he\u2019s begun has come
\nup empty\u2014left holding
\nthe bag\u2014trick,<\/p>\n

nickel\u2014the cat\u2019s
\ngotten out, crossed
\nthe path. Curious\u2014<\/p>\n

his horse
\nturned back
\nfrom our fox hunt,<\/p>\n

this possum run.
\nGiven in\u2014SAMO\u00a9
\nAS AN ESCAPE<\/p>\n

CLAUSE\u2014found face
\ndown
\nlike a payment.<\/p>\n

And we who for ages
\nwhaled, blubber
\n& wonder<\/p>\n

why he\u2019s thrown
\nashore, rowed
\nhimself, here<\/p>\n

hallelujah\u2014answered
\nout the blue
\nwhale some unseen<\/p>\n

call. A siren\u2014
\nthe ambulance
\nracing a sea<\/p>\n

of cars\u2014emergency\u2014
\nfamily only
\nbeyond this<\/p>\n

point\u2014our fists
\nagainst his breath-
\nless chest.<\/p>\n

Vincent Van Gough The Starry Night<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"970px-Van_Gogh_-_Starry_Night_-_Google_Art_Project\"<\/a>Anne Sexton “The Starry Night”
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

That does not keep me from having a terrible need of\u2014shall I say the word\u2014religion. Then I go out at night to paint the stars\u2014Vincent Van Gogh in a letter to his brother<\/em><\/p>\n

The town does not exist
\nexcept where one black-haired tree slips
\nup like a drowned woman into the hot sky.
\nThe town is silent. The night boils with eleven stars.
\nOh starry starry night! This is how
\nI want to die.<\/p>\n

It moves. They are all alive.
\nEven the moon bulges in its orange irons
\nto push children, like a god, from its eye.
\nThe old unseen serpent swallows up the stars.
\nOh starry starry night! This is how
\nI want to die:<\/p>\n

into that rushing beast of the night,
\nsucked up by that great dragon, to split
\nfrom my life with no flag,
\nno belly,
\nno cry.<\/p>\n

Edvard Munch The Scream<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"The_Scream\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nMonica Youn “Stealing The Scream<\/em>“<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was hardly a high-tech operation, stealing The Scream.
\nThat we know for certain, and what was left behind–
\na store-bought ladder, a broken window,
\nand fifty-one seconds of videotape, abstract as an overture.<\/p>\n

And the rest? We don\u2019t know. But we can envision
\nmoonlight coming in through the broken window,
\ncasting a bright shape over everything–the paintings,
\nthe floor tiles, the velvet ropes: a single, sharp-edged pattern;<\/p>\n

the figure\u2019s fixed hysteria rendered suddenly ironic
\nby the fact of something happening; houses
\nclapping a thousand shingle hands to shocked cheeks
\nalong the road from Oslo to Asgardstrand;<\/p>\n

the guards rushing in–too late!–greeted only
\nby the gap-toothed smirk of the museum walls;
\nand dangling from the picture wire like a baited hook,
\na postcard: \u201cThanks for the poor security.\u201d<\/p>\n

The policemen, lost as tourists, stand whispering
\nin the galleries: “. . .but what does it all mean?\u201d
\nSomeone has the answers, someone who, grasping the frame,
\nsaw his sun-red face reflected in that familiar boiling sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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