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Question
Part 1 (1000 words)
Drawing on concepts that you have encountered in the first five units of the module, identify creative features to be found in the following poem by Adrian Henri.
Any Prince to Any Princess
| 1 | August is coming |
| and the goose, I’m afraid, | |
| is getting fat. | |
| There have been | |
| 5 | no golden eggs for some months now. |
| Straw has fallen well below market price | |
| despite my frantic spinning | |
| and the sedge is, | |
| as you rightly point out, | |
| 10 | withered. |
| I can’t imagine how the pea | |
| got under your mattress. I apologize | |
| humbly. The chambermaid has, of course, | |
| been sacked. As has the frog footman. | |
| 15 | I understand that, during my recent fact-finding tour of the |
| Golden River, | |
| despite your nightly unavailing efforts, | |
| he remained obstinately | |
| froggish. | |
| 20 | I hope that the Three Wishes granted by the General |
| Assembly | |
| will go some way towards redressing | |
| this unfortunate recent sequence of events. | |
| The fall in output from the shoe-factory, for example: | |
| 25 | no one could have foreseen the work-to-rule |
| by the National Union of Elves. Not to mention the fact | |
| that the court has been fast asleep | |
| for the last six and a half years. | |
| The matter of the poisoned apple has been taken up | |
| 30 | by the Board of Trade: I think I can assure you |
| the incident will not be | |
| repeated. | |
| I can quite understand, in the circumstances, | |
| your reluctance to let down | |
| 35 | your golden tresses. However |
| I feel I must point out | |
| that the weather isn’t getting any better | |
| and I already have a nasty chill | |
| from waiting at the base | |
| 40 | of the White Tower. You must see |
| the absurdity of the | |
| situation. | |
| Some of the courtiers are beginning to talk, | |
| not to mention the humble villagers. | |
| 45 | It’s been three weeks now, and not even |
| a word. | |
| Princess, | |
| a cold, black wind | |
| howls through our empty palace. | |
| 50 | Dead leaves litter the bedchamber; |
| the mirror on the wall hasn’t said a thing | |
| since you left. I can only ask, | |
| bearing all this in mind, | |
| that you think again, | |
| 55 | let down your hair, |
| reconsider. |
Henri, A. (1980) ‘Any Prince to Any Princess’ in From the Loveless Motel, Jonathan Cape, London. https://www.poemhunter.com/ i/ ebooks/ pdf/ adrian_henri_2012_3.pdf [Accessed 24.04.18]
Write no more than 1000 words for this part.
Part 2 (1000 words)
- a.Taking your inspiration from Henri’s poem, rewrite it as either a passage from an autobiography or as a newspaper article.
Write no more than 300 words for this step.
- b.Drawing on concepts that you have encountered in the first five units of the module, reflect on what you learned about creativity from the process of rewriting the poem.
Write no more than 700 words for this step.
