Project Prototype One

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Road to Neverland by imsad

My final paper will be examining the psychology of awe and the cycles of it. Why do we turn back to the same sources of awe (like Alice to Wonderland or Peter Pan to Neverland)? Do we get caught in a cycle of experiencing an awe moment, then returning to the mundane (like the people in Dubliners)? I want to incorporate these cycles, and have decided to take one, two, or all of the options below as my final project.

Option 1: Mirrored or Palindrome Poetry

In case you don't remember, a palindrome is a word, phrase, verse, or sentence that reads the same forward or backward. In a mirrored or palindrome poem, the words read the same backwards or forwards like in these two examples. I could try this and incorporate the books I'm going to explore as the subject.

Option 2: Reverse Poetry
Where reading a reverse poem, one direction tells one meaning, then reading it backwards tells another message. Just last week a teenager's reverse poem went viral on twitter. It would be brilliant to tell something about the cycles of awe reading negatively one way, then positively the next. I just have to really practice this style of poem.

Option 3: Circle Poetry
There are a couple different variations of circle poetry. There is visual poetry where I could write poems in circles or circular styles. This book contains one variation of visual circle poetry. It's very simple. This blog section is dedicated to another style, though some of these poems I have a hard time understanding. Another aspect to circular poetry includes repeating first and last lines, or coming back to the same places in the start and finish. I'd like to be able to do that too.

I could put these poems online with specific labels or tags under the creative commons license to give people access to them. Or I could write one of these poems and make a simple YouTube video to cultivate my ideas there too. Any thoughts would be great on how I could get these poems out there. Or if you have any idea of a specific audience to target that would be great too.