A purple army inside a grape: Poetic Deconstruction @ ALS

This week the 4th Graders took a look at Someone Puts a Pineapple Together, by Wallace Stevens. We inspected an actual pineapple to try and figure out how Stevens got such wild images out of a fruit. Have you ever looked at cloud and seen something else in it? It’s just like that! And then I asked the students to get ready to write their own images, to tell us what they envisioned within a mystery object. I pulled it out of my bag and it was… a purple cabbage! Cut in half for optimal viewing, of course.

4th Grade

Untitled by Stefano

A purple army inside a grape
The most deadliest tree
I see snakes

Purple by Leila S.

A rock is on the warm sand
A little tree grows from the ground
A crab is in the water
A half ball is flat on the floor
A half of the Earth
A big cupcake bun

Untitled by Jonathan G.

Its thunder inside the purple cabbage
Its a maze inside the cabbage
Its a root inside its own cabbage
It’s a ghost stuck on a cabbage

4th Grade

Untitled by Geovanny T.

A brain in your mind
thinking thoughts
A tree in a galaxy
growing
A turtle moving slowly

The Amazing Cabbage by John D.

The cabbage looks like a rotten brain
The cabbage looks like a tree in fall
The cabbage helped Payton Manning
The cabbage stopped world hunger
The cabbage inspired kindness
The cabbage is awesome

The Purple Mohawk by Jacob C.

Purple brains floating in the air
out of the soul with people
I see purple crayons in the purple
brain looking like purple hair
I see a purple mow hawk
filled with purple leaves

Untitled by Sergio P.

Brains, bones, spines
and it looks like a
pet hamster and a tree
it looks like fire

Purple Cabbage by Jose R.

A brain that is really purple from a zombie
A purple shell that is yucky
A purple turtle that is dead
An alien that has come to earth to eat us
A purple spider that is dead
A purple head that is dead

4th Grade

Untitled by Brian P.

Looks like a scorpion
I see like a human
It looks like a turtle
I see a brain

Untitled by Jocelyn H.

I see a tree inside
I see

Pineapple by Jimmy R.

Its a house full of
windows, and a shelf, even
a leaf
Its a crab, a turtle.

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