POETRY PROMTS

Matthew Zapruder

25 ODES

• read Frank O'Hara's "Ode to Joy," Keats's "To Autumn," Dean Young's "Clam Ode" and Neruda's "Ode to a Pair of Socks"• write the titles of 25 odes (that is, "Ode to ..."). Try to make some of them really terrible titles.• pick 5, and write 3 first lines for each of those titles.• pick one, and use of the first lines (from any of the poems) to write the ode. Feel free to use any of the other lines you wrote.

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