Creative Writing

Using your own words and depending on your acquired knowledge, write a few sentences in which you try to define what poetry is.

Select the definition on the sheet that you like best.

Which of the definitions on the attached document do you like the most? Justify your choice.

Read the poem "Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100" by Martín Espada.

How does this poem differ from the typical definition of a poem?

What makes this text a poem if it does not rhyme or discuss beautiful things.

Now, read again the poem 'Alabanza' carefully and answer the following questions:

1. Where and when does this poem take place?

2. What happened in the poem?

3. Who is the poem talking about in the first stanza?

4. Why is the poet writing about these people?

5. Who is the poet praising and why?