Five Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

Five Ways of Looking at the Computer-Supported Composition Classroom (With Apologies to Wallace Stevens)

Benson McCorkle, The Ohio State University
J Brian Chambley, The Ohio State University

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Fade In: Resisting the Bawds of Euphony

At the sight of blackbirds / Flying in a green light,
Even the bawds of euphony / Would cry out sharply.

Scene One: Looking @ Digital Contexts Rhetorically

I was of three minds, / Like a tree / In which there are three blackbirds.

Scene Two: Looking @ Our Dependence on Technology

I know noble accents / And lucid, inescapable rhythms; / But I know, too, / That the blackbird is involved / In what I know.

Scene Three: Looking @ the Construction of Online Identity

A man and a woman / Are one.
A man and a woman and a blackbird / Are one.

Scene Four: Looking @ Process and Product on the Web

When the blackbird flew out of sight,
It marked the edge / Of one of many circles.

Fade Out: Looking Beyond the Technological Horizon

[H]e mistook/ The shadow of his equipage/ For blackbirds.

Works Cited

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