Your homework is to read over the pantoum form and write an explication of the poem "PUNK PANTOUM". Pay close attention to this form as it could be a form you might choose to use to write your own poem.
IN CLASS - AP Practice Essay (from 2004). We will discuss these on Monday. Please bring questions to class. We will also read sample essay response from 2004.
Make sure you have read chapters 12 - 13. Or I will have to yell spondees at you!
STILL-BIRTH PANTOUM
On a platform, I heard someone call out your name:
No, Laetitia, no.
It wasn’t my train—the doors were closing,
but I rushed in, searching for your face.
But no Laetitia. No.
No one in that car could have been you,
but I rushed in, searching for your face:
no longer an infant. A woman now, blond, thirty-two.
No one in that car could have been you.
Laetitia-Marie was the name I had chosen.
No longer an infant. A woman now, blond, thirty-two:
I sometimes go months without remembering you.
Laetitia-Marie was the name I had chosen:
I was told not to look. Not to get attached—
I sometimes go months without remembering you.
Some griefs bless us that way, not asking much space.
I was told not to look. Not to get attached.
It wasn’t my train—the doors were closing.
Some griefs bless us that way, not asking much space.
On a platform, I heard someone calling your name.
From A New Hunger by Laure-Anne Bosselaar. Copyright © 2007 by Laure-Anne Bosselaar. Reprinted with permission of Ausable Press.
