Exit Slip Oct 16

Today in groups of 4, we made permutation poems or PH4 poems. They work by picking 4 words and then constntly mixing up the order of the words until you get back to the original order. After taking a brief look around us, the 4 words our group came up with were “plant, leaves, swallow, flies.” I personally recommended starting with this order because I hate flies haha… Not that it is an issue for these poems, but our 4 words unfortunately did not flow too well when mixed in a way such as: “swallow flies leaves plant.” One group though did have 4 words that seem to all flow at any order with the words: “I only love you.” Even at a mix where the verb comes before the two nouns, it still seemed to flow: Love only I you.” Still, if I were to create another permutation poem, I would try to have all 4 words sticks more to a theme. For example: “fear, silence, death, arise.” All these words relate to one another thus giving a good flow no matter where the verb is.


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