Television Todd Alcott Television Look at me look

Television Todd Alcott

Television Look at me, look at me. You see what 1 - hey, hey, no, don't Look at me. No no no, don't look over there, there's nothing going on over nothing to look at over there, look at me, look at me. I've got stuff you wouldn't believe. Danger? Sex? Are you looking at me? Is everybody looking at me? Do I Action? Death? Thrills? Comedy? All here, all have your attention? Good. the next eight minutes. Don't get the wrong idea. I'm not trying to take over your in Can you believe it? You can't. It's unbelievable. life. You need, what? What do you need? You need to, You can't believe it because it's unbelievable! what? Go to the bathroom? Fine. Get up, go to the bathroom, come back, look at me. You need, what? You It's a miracle. need to get something to eat? Fine. Get up, go to the Just keep looking at me. kitchen, get something to eat, come back, look at me. You Just keep looking at me. Look at me, look at me, need to, what, sleep? Fine, get up, go to bed, go to sleep, look at me. get up, come back, look at me. Okay. So we have an agreement. You will do what you absolutely need to do, and when you're done, you will come back and look at me. Don't worry about your schedule. I am here for you. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, I am here for you. You need me, I'm here. Fair and foul, thick and thin, I am here for you. People try to tell you I'm bad? You tell them that I am here for you. Twenty-four hours a day, fair and foul, thick and thin, I am here for you. People try to tell you I'm bad, know what it sounds like to me? Sour grapes.

Television • Look for repeated lines, phrases, and images. • Who is the speaker? Can you describe the speaker? • How does the performance of the poem affect your experience and understanding of it? • What is the situation in the poem? • What is this poem about? (subject) • What qualities describe the tone of this poem?

Qualities abrasive abrupt certain cheerful childlike acid chilling abstract clean accessible clear adventurous cluttered agreeable cold ambiguous commonamusing sensical angry colorful awake combative aware cruel bawdy cynical billowy dark bitter black-and-white dead decisive boisterous defiant boundless delicate brainy delightful bright-eyed deranged busy disagreeable careful disturbing cautious dizzying dramatic efficient elastic electric encouraging energetic enthusiastic exuberant false familiar fanatical feminine fierce flashy flowery frantic friendly funny futuristic generic gentle graceful grandiose grieving gruesome guarded happy hard-hearted harmonious heartbreaking hesitant hilarious hushed hypnotic inconclusive innocent intelligent joyous jumbled juvenile kindhearted knowing languid limping literal lively longing lopsided loud ludicrous lyrical masculine materialistic meek melodic morbid motionless muddled narrow natural nervous nimble noiseless nonstop nostalgic old-fashioned observant odd offbeat open oppositional ordinary outrageous painstaking peaceful physical political private psychedelic public quaint quick quiet quirky ragged rapid rebellious reminiscent regular rough round scattered secretive serious sharp short shut simple slow smooth soft solid stiff sudden surprising sweet tearful tender thick thin thundering tranquil troubled truthful violent wakeful wandering warlike warm wde-eyed wise wistful witty worried wrathful yielding youthful

THESIS STATEMENT • ONE sentence, containing… – The title of the poem (in quotation marks) – The author – The subject of the poem – The qualities/tone of the poem Do NOT use the words “title” “author” “subject” or “quality/qualities” in your sentence Example: “On the Nature of Understanding” by Kay Ryan is a short, narrative poem that surprises us with an explanation of how we learn.

Impersonation Poem Choose something from the list we generated as a class. Try to write in the voice of this thing. Show its perspective. Show its good sides and bad sides. – What words or phrases might it repeat? – Think about your own opinion of this thing and try to reveal your own opinion of it through the things it says. – Try to imagine how your chosen object would talk and how you would like your piece to be read aloud.