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PO-EMotions
This year, I will write a poem a day that either evokes an emotion, or uses an emotion word in the title or body of the poem. I will be cross-posting at Poetrepository. You are invited to play along whenever you have the time or inspiration! Leave your poems or links in the comments (on either site).
The Emotions
W 4/1 anticipation
Th 4/2 fear
F 4/3 surprise
Sa 4/4 anger
Su 4/5 disgust
M 4/6 sadness
T 4/7 acceptance
W 4/8 joy
Th 4/9 courage
F 4/10 dejection
Sa 4/11 despair
Su 4/12 aversion
M 4/13 hate
T 4/14 desire
W 4/15 hope
Th 4/16 love
F 4/17 sorrow
Sa 4/18 happiness
Su 4/19 interest
M 4/20 wonder
T 4/21 guilt
W 4/22 shame
Th 4/23 contempt
F 4/24 distress
Sa 4/25 cheerfulness
Su 4/26 zest
M 4/27 contentment
T 4/28 optimism
W 4/29 pride
Th 4/30 relief
The emotions came from this list.
The first 8 (April 1-8) are from the theorist Plutchik. I rearranged the order to describe how I'm likely to feel about this project early on.
The second 8 (April 9-16) are from the theorist Arnold. (His list overlaps Plutchik's with anger, fear, and sadness.) Hopefully, by bracketing dejection, despair, aversion and hate with courage on one end, and hope and love on the other, I'll make it through this eight days. (And, yes, I intentionally positioned hope on Tax Day.)
The next 4 (April 17-20) are from the theorist Frijda. (His list overlaps Plutchik's and Arnold's with desire and surprise.) We'll need his mostly hopeful list to make it through the next one.
Another 4 (April 21-24) are from the theorist Izard. (His list is overwhelmingly negative, overlapping the others with anger, disgust, fear, interest, joy, surprise, and shame.)
The last 6 (April 25-30) were chosen from Shaver, et al. (2001)'s list of secondary emotions for the primary emotion joy. After three weeks of emotional ups and downs, I decided to end on high notes. These words, like the first 8, likely describe how I'll be feeling at the end of this month and this project. Especially #30.
Jone has the Poetry Friday roundup today at Check it Out.
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