Tara

=My holiday checklist is: =


 * 23/11/11 check out Australian poet Johanna Featherstone. **
 * 5/12/11: we need to discuss the Day of the Dead and also "Catastrophic Disruption of the Head" **

Tara with one a! :)

**Ideas 31/10/11**

A typical story but with a twist, for example an exchange of gender roles or such. Something that everyone thinks will be predictable but with one big thing that makes it interesting and creative. Experimentation of point of view. Idea based on the perspective of death in Markus Zuzak's 'The Book Theif' which by the way I would recommend that everyone reads as it is an amazing book!



7/11/2011

Apart from being 711 free slushie day, today i've had some great ideas about what to do for my major work. I think that I would be interested in doing a critical response on modern literature. Some ideas are:
 * Cult literature and the hold that it has taken on society
 * What our literature will tell of us in 100 years time
 * Whether the increased production of literature and the creation of genres to appeal to the masses has lowered the standards of literature. As in, once upon a time it was only written for the educated classes and was of a higher class (I think. More research would be required)

Another idea would be a collection of poems on a common theme or thread TO DO: Research poetic form
 * Maybe a story, whereby part of a story is revealed within each poem
 * A common motif, something unusual
 * For example, the use of Flowers in 'The Hours'

28/11/11 I am having trouble starting off my poems. Once I get going I am fine but starting off a poem is always the hardest part. I am trying to find something that isn't cheesy and just BAD



Mexican day of the dead ! Dia de los muertos :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUUAgEWeYeI

12/12/11

Woman with a Somber Gaze
Woman with a somber gaze, Tell me, what do you see in the candles? are they ghosts in the night or are they flowers of the earth?

What do you treasure on your lap illuminated and transparent, even in the air your silhouette appears?

Twice as much the pain, twice as much the loss, the flowers have become rivers and the fragrance cries out.

Pondering at night, vigil of the imagination, bundle of lights and echoes, stay up late during the wake...

Woman with a tender gaze the flames of candles reach out; are they mocking this moment or are they restfully flickering out.

In your illuminated face life rejuvenates, to those who love death this is a golden ninght in their sight.

For those who love life it is a night of confusion, the wax kisses the flowers and the flame caresses the emotions.

Julie Sopetran, 1995 (Spanish poet)

This poem is about an image of a woman celebrating the Day of the Dead

=24/1/2012=

Meeting at school today ! I have decided to change my form to perhaps a one act monologue.

30/1/12
Was thinking that I might do my monologue or play on the theme of racism. I might base the play on the phrase of "I'm not racist, but..."

http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/people/racism.html

And research information on David Williamson.(Australian Playwright)

GREAT WEBSITE FOR MONOLGUES ! http://www.monologuegenie.com/monologue-writing-101.html