Monday, September 6, 2010
Pedagogy forum, week 3
I found the "When we go to..." calisthenics exercise to be particularly fruitful in generating ideas. The repetitive nature of using the same beginning gives the poetry a chant-like feel. This helps me to springboard off of the refrain in a multitude of ways. I feel that my mind is better able to wander because I try to get away from the typical discourse that would normally follow the introduction. For example, I used "When we go to Paris" and I found myself trying t get away from typical Parisian story lines. Interestingly, I fell into the tourist trap of writing about the cultural vitality many look for in European countries. I didn't stumble upon this intentionally, but my writing consistently conjured up images of a sought after ethnic cleansing and what my subconscious really deemed was happening.
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Interesting. So Paris allowed you to think of what it doesn't signify? In that way, the "when we finally go to Paris" seems a way of forgetting. I admire that. I think you're right, too, in that repetitive machinery like that "when we go" tag allows you to suppress your compulsion to tell a cohesive story. In this way, the story is there, but it evolves naturally from the language rather than being preformed.
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