Ekphrasis is using one art form to respond to another. Friday's assignment was respond to your photo, much like Murray did in his essay The Stranger in the Photo. Please review the details on Friday's blog. The assignment is due at the end of class today. It is the last grade for this marking period.
Reminder: the photo goes at the top of your document. Don't forget your caption.
Marchal Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase and X.J. Kennedy's poem, which follows, by the same title is to illustrate how ekphasis is used in poetry.
enjoyNude Descending a Staircase
Toe upon toe, a snowing flesh,
A gold of lemon, root and rind,
She sifts in sunlight down the stairs
With nothing on. Nor on her mind.
We spy beneath the banister
A constant thresh of thigh on thigh--
Her lips imprint the swinging air
That parts to let her parts go by.
One-woman waterall, she wears
Her slow descent like a long cape
And pausing, on the final stair
Collects her motions into shape.
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