Love, loss, and grief: Poetry Workshop

Group work is always exciting to me, hearing differing viewpoints from my peers allows me to cultivate new ideas. This workshop taught me that music and poetry are deeply connected. I also learned the music tastes of my group mates. 😁

During this unit, we watched multiple poetry performances, including the performance of a young girl speaking with an emotional appeal to her mother through poetry. We even watched a spoken-word piece by Alicia Keys. 

I worked along with Humza, Hannah, and Ayat on this project. Our group focused on the poems Loss by John Wieners and Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone by W.H. Auden.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/15JORlKQFsdeqHDr5tHwmvScLwkqUQBTF/view?usp=sharing












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