{"id":6004,"date":"2011-05-26T12:26:20","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T16:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/specialcollections\/?p=6004"},"modified":"2017-06-20T14:22:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T18:22:31","slug":"whypoetry-tcluster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/whypoetry-tcluster\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Need Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"width: 100%;\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Listen to Wes McNair Reading the Poem<\/strong>\t<audio id=\"wp_mep_1\"      controls=\"controls\" preload=\"none\"  >\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t<source src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/whypoetry-audio.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mp3\" \/>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t<\/audio>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\njQuery(document).ready(function($) {\r\n\t$('#wp_mep_1').mediaelementplayer({\r\n\t\tm:1\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t,features: ['playpause','current','progress','duration','volume','tracks','fullscreen']\r\n\t\t,audioWidth:400,audioHeight:30\r\n\t});\r\n});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<\/td>\n<td><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Why We Need Poetry<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Initial Exploration<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<table border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">Everyone else is in bed, it being, after all,<br \/>\nthree in the morning, and you can hear<br \/>\nhow quiet the house has become each time<br \/>\nyou pause in the conversation you are having<br \/>\nwith your close friend to take a bite<br \/>\nof your sandwich. Is it getting the wallpaper<br \/>\naround you in the kitchen up at last<br \/>\nthat makes cucumbers and white bread, the only<br \/>\nthings you could find to eat, taste so good,<br \/>\nor is it the satisfaction of having discovered<br \/>\na project that could carry the two of you<br \/>\ninto this moment made for nobody else?<br \/>\nEither way, you\u2019re here in the pleasure<br \/>\nof the tongue, which continues after<br \/>\nyou\u2019ve finished your sandwich, for now<br \/>\nyou are savoring the talk alone\u2014how<br \/>\nby staring at the band of fluorescent light<br \/>\nover the sink or the pattern you hadn\u2019t<br \/>\nnoticed in the wallpaper, you can see<br \/>\nwhere the sentence you\u2019ve started, line<br \/>\nby line, should go. Only love could lead you<br \/>\nto think this way, or to care so little<br \/>\nabout how you speak, you end up saying<br \/>\nwhat you care most about exactly right,<br \/>\neach small allusion growing larger<br \/>\nin the light of your friend\u2019s eye.<br \/>\nAnd when the light itself grows larger,<br \/>\nit\u2019s not the next day coming through the windows<br \/>\nof that redone kitchen, but you,<br \/>\nchanged by your hunger for the words<br \/>\nyou listen to and speak, their taste<br \/>\nwhich you can never get enough of.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<table border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" align=\"center\"><strong>Notebook Page 1<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/whypoetry-nbp1-787x1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-12354\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/whypoetry-nbp1-787x1024-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/whypoetry-nbp1-787x1024-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/whypoetry-nbp1-787x1024-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/whypoetry-nbp1-787x1024-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" align=\"center\"><strong>Transcript 1<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/whypoetry-ovr1-787x1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-12355\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/whypoetry-ovr1-787x1024-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/whypoetry-ovr1-787x1024-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/whypoetry-ovr1-787x1024-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/whypoetry-ovr1-787x1024-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" colspan=\"2\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Transitions and Structure<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" align=\"center\"><strong>Notebook Page 2<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/whypoetry-nbp2-809x1023.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-12356\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/whypoetry-nbp2-809x1023-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/whypoetry-nbp2-809x1023-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/whypoetry-nbp2-809x1023-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/whypoetry-nbp2-809x1023-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" align=\"center\"><strong>Transcript 2<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/whypoetry-ovr2-809x1023.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-12357\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/whypoetry-ovr2-809x1023-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/whypoetry-ovr2-809x1023-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/whypoetry-ovr2-809x1023-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/whypoetry-ovr2-809x1023-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" colspan=\"2\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Endings and Line Breaks<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; border: 1px solid #000000;\"><strong>Notebook Page 3<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/whypoetry-nbp3-803x1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-12358\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/whypoetry-nbp3-803x1024-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/whypoetry-nbp3-803x1024-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/whypoetry-nbp3-803x1024-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/whypoetry-nbp3-803x1024-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; border: 1px solid #000000;\"><strong>Transcript 3<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/whypoetry-ovr3-803x1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-12359\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/whypoetry-ovr3-803x1024-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/whypoetry-ovr3-803x1024-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/whypoetry-ovr3-803x1024-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/whypoetry-ovr3-803x1024-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" colspan=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-6004\" data-postid=\"6004\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-6004 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image and audio objects for teaching the poem &#8220;Why We Need Poetry&#8221; 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