Friday, June 14, 2013

Follow Friday #49


[Meep! School is over! Summer vacation!! ;D]

Follow Friday is a weekly meme hosted by Alison Can Read and Parajunkee.

Q: Activity: Spine Poetry. Create a line of poetry with your book spines (take a picture). Not feeling creative? Tell us about your favorite poem.


My webcam isn't the best. And neither are my photography skills. So, here are the books and my line of poetry:

"Cinder:
Beautiful Creatures Marked,
The Throne of Fire Chosen."

[Cinder (Marissa Meyer), Beautiful Creatures (Garcia/Stohl), Marked and Chosen (Cast and Cast, The House of Night series), and The Throne of Fire (Riordan, the Kane Chronicles book 2).]

I don't really know what my own poem means, but it sounds really cool. It sounds like something out of Narnia. "People judged to be too beautiful are sent to the Throne of Fire, a sort of electrical chair except instead of killing you with electricity, it enlightens you and brings you to life by setting fire to you..." Or something like that. It sounds like an idea for a novel... Hmm...

(And, just because... Can you see the tops of the spines of the books below them? Can you guess which books they are? Okay, I'll tell you. In no particular order, there are Levine's Ella Enchanted, Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, and Goodman's Eona.)

As for my favorite poem... William Blake's "The Tyger." No contest.

"Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?"

Symmetry is pronounced "sihm-ih-try". Gotta say something for poetic license.

There are a whole six stanzas in the poem; I'm too lazy to copy the whole thing, only what I know from memory, so feel free to look the rest of it up. In fact, here, I googled it for you.

How about you? What's your favorite poem? What does my poem mean to you? What sort of poem can you create with the spines of your books? Have a blessed Friday and weekend!

4 comments:

  1. Very lovely self-made poem and your chosen poem from Blake is great too! New GFC follower:)

    My FF:
    http://evelinesbooks.blogspot.nl/2013/06/feature-and-follow-friday-2.html

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  2. Oh man! We had to over-analyze Tyger, Tyger in my first year of English lit in uni... which kind of makes it not one of my favorite poems :)

    I love your spine-poem, though - there is something to be said for poems that are different, and I have seen a lot of great ones today.

    Here's my FF post for this week. I'm an old bloglovin follower.

    Have a wonderful weekend!

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  3. Nice!
    This weeks's challenge didn't really work for me since I read almost everything electronically these days...

    Happy weekend!
    Mei @ Diary of a Fair Weather Diver

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  4. Great poem. I thought this was pretty fun, although I had to use library books since everything I buy is electronic LOL. I'm a new GFC follower.

    Meredith
    Meredith’s Musings

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