https://padlet.com/eggemeierc/rg2z98w3yn57g5rz What do you notice about these? What elements do they have in common? If we wanted to write something similar, what would we have to keep in mind? en-us 2020-10-26 04:30:11 UTC 2020-10-26 14:11:44 UTC hello@padlet.com eggemeierc https://padlet.com/eggemeierc/rg2z98w3yn57g5rz/wish/860422572 Ode to My Socks
Pablo Neruda - 1904-1973

Maru Mori brought me
a pair
of socks
which she knitted herself
with her sheepherder’s hands,
two socks as soft
as rabbits.
I slipped my feet
into them
as though into
two
cases
knitted
with threads of
twilight
and goatskin.
Violent socks,
my feet were
two fish made
of wool,
two long sharks
sea-blue, shot
through
by one golden thread,
two immense blackbirds,
two cannons:
my feet
were honored
in this way
by
these
heavenly
socks.
They were
so handsome
for the first time
my feet seemed to me
unacceptable
like two decrepit
firemen, firemen
unworthy
of that woven
fire,
of those glowing
socks.

Nevertheless
I resisted
the sharp temptation
to save them somewhere
as schoolboys
keep
fireflies,
as learned men
collect
sacred texts,
I resisted
the mad impulse
to put them
into a golden
cage
and each day give them
birdseed
and pieces of pink melon.
Like explorers
in the jungle who hand
over the very rare
green deer
to the spit
and eat it
with remorse,
I stretched out
my feet
and pulled on
the magnificent
socks
and then my shoes.

The moral
of my ode is this:
beauty is twice
beauty
and what is good is doubly
good
when it is a matter of two socks
made of wool
in winter.

"Ode to My Socks" from Neruda & Vallejo: Selected Poems, by Pablo Neruda and translated by Robert Bly (Boston: Beacon Press, 1993). Used with permission of Robert Bly.]]> 2020-10-26 04:34:08 UTC https://padlet.com/eggemeierc/rg2z98w3yn57g5rz/wish/860422572 eggemeierc https://padlet.com/eggemeierc/rg2z98w3yn57g5rz/wish/861492641 ODE TO THE SAUSAGE
O, sausage sizzling in your succulent fat.
You disgust humanity’s vegans and vegetarians,
yet you dissolve in spite of them
within the depths of my mouth.
Those who say you are nothing but crude fat
in a pigskin casing are blind to your salty sweet taste,
your crispy softness,
your fierce fragrance.
Considered impure by many,
you are the devil’s tool of temptation—
a serpent of kielbasa.
You are flavor incarnate.
Presidents have their nations,
a boot has its confident shine,
a world of imperfection has you.
—Jimmy Morrill]]> 2020-10-26 13:02:40 UTC https://padlet.com/eggemeierc/rg2z98w3yn57g5rz/wish/861492641 eggemeierc https://padlet.com/eggemeierc/rg2z98w3yn57g5rz/wish/861494691 ODE TO WATERMELON
I bite into you
and relish the burst of wild flavor
I haven’t tasted all winter.
Your sweet juice
floods my mouth—
buries my tongue
in fresh pinkish flesh.
I swallow your cold fruitiness
and my taste buds smile
with excitement.
Oh, watermelon,
the scent of June wind
mixed with the heat of August sun
washes over me
as I take another bite
of summer.
—Marnie Briggs]]> 2020-10-26 13:03:12 UTC https://padlet.com/eggemeierc/rg2z98w3yn57g5rz/wish/861494691 estesh https://padlet.com/eggemeierc/rg2z98w3yn57g5rz/wish/861682238 the odes are about things that the authors like. they use discriptive words to make what they like sound enjoyable to the reader. they discribe everyday things like they are needed objects.]]> 2020-10-26 13:45:21 UTC https://padlet.com/eggemeierc/rg2z98w3yn57g5rz/wish/861682238 ciccarellin https://padlet.com/eggemeierc/rg2z98w3yn57g5rz/wish/861686748 The odes are sorta about things people like or you like. And about its something that's in your life. The subject of the ode has to be something you know about, and like. You have to add words that make the ode sound good and convincing. ]]> 2020-10-26 13:46:21 UTC https://padlet.com/eggemeierc/rg2z98w3yn57g5rz/wish/861686748 vamosyr https://padlet.com/eggemeierc/rg2z98w3yn57g5rz/wish/861687614 All of the things are impermanent. You don't keep food forever, and socks get gross. They are all everyday things and they have a lot of adjectives. The adjectives help make the ode meaningful. If we wanted to write something similar, we should use a lot of adjectives, and make the ode about impermanent stuff.]]> 2020-10-26 13:46:33 UTC https://padlet.com/eggemeierc/rg2z98w3yn57g5rz/wish/861687614 martin_weinbaumj https://padlet.com/eggemeierc/rg2z98w3yn57g5rz/wish/861688702 Most of them are about food. but all of the things that they mention are something that brings them joy like sausage watermelon or socks.]]> 2020-10-26 13:46:47 UTC https://padlet.com/eggemeierc/rg2z98w3yn57g5rz/wish/861688702 berubej https://padlet.com/eggemeierc/rg2z98w3yn57g5rz/wish/861694885 One thing me and my group noticed was that the majority of the odes are about food. All of the odes bring people a lot of joy even though they aren't animate objects. Another thing I noticed was that the ode about socks was way longer than the odes about food even though a sock is just a piece of clothing.
One thing that we would need to keep in mind when writing our own odes, is that it has to be a small thing. Maybe an everyday object. But it needs to be something that you don't think a lot about on a daily basis.]]> 2020-10-26 13:48:05 UTC https://padlet.com/eggemeierc/rg2z98w3yn57g5rz/wish/861694885