Corner of the World

1. "Poetry is language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree." - Ezra Pound.
What did Pound mean by using the word "charged"?

2. List 10 things you think of when you hear the words "bedroom" or "tombstone." Pick the most interesting one and write about it.

3. Write and include these words: oven, lines, oregano, florescent, light, and hum (or rum)

4. "Each corner of the world holds miracles." - Harriet Arnow

5. "Delicious to watch." - Harriet Arnow

6. "distance of opposites" - Charles Wright

7. "which fear is our consolation" - Charles Wright

8. "climb into light" - from Richard Hague's "Finished with the Poetry of Coal"