Play Exquisite Corpse
In order to write a poem,
participants should agree on a sentence structure beforehand. For example, each
sentence in the poem could be structured "Adjective, Noun, Verb,
Adjective, Noun." Articles and verb tenses may be added later or adjusted
after the poem has been written. The game was also adapted to drawing, where
one participant would draw thehead of a figure, the next the torso, etc. The
name "Exquisite Corpse" comes from a line of poetry created using the
technique: "The exquisite corpse will drink the young wine."
The only hard and fast
rule of Exquisite Corpse is that each participant is unaware of what the others
have written, thus producing a surprising—sometimes absurd—yet often beautiful
poem. Exquisite Corpse is a great way to collaborate with other poets, and to
free oneself from imaginative constraints or habits. Remember, many of the most
effective phrases or metaphors are those that are most surprising. So get a
couple of friends and try writing an exquisite corpse.
As an example, the
following is an Exquisite Corpse composed by the intrepid Academy staff using
the sentence construction Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adjective, Noun.
Slung trousers melt in a roseate box.
A broken calendar oscillates like sunny tin.
The craven linden growls swimmingly. Blowfish.
A glittering roof slaps at crazy ephemera
Example:
My Exquisite Corpse
In this first image all group members had drawn in a block/section.
In this one below we had to choose one of the crazy sentences we came up with when playing the game. After that we needed to draw something that best pictured the sentence.
