On His Own or with His Students:
Corpus Technique
Choose a submission. From that submission choose several words that you believe are also found in other submissions. Search other submissions and extract the search words with the surrounding context. Arrange the extracted words and context into a poem. You can play with the length and formatting of the surrounding context.
Untitled
Anonymous
Thầy là người thấy em nhớ nhất,
và tthấy rất giản dị và hiền lành.
Em nhớ những lúc trời lạnh trên Đà Lạt.
Thầy vẫn rảo bước trên con đường Bùi Thị Xuân một mình hoặc
với các học trò của thầy.
Lúc đó, Em rất muốn được kết bạn và thân tiện hơn với thầy.
Tuy nhiên em thời đó còn rất ngại ngùng,
và thiếu tự tin.
Vốn dĩ em là cô gái nhút nhát từ một gia đình miền quê của Việt Nam nên em ít dám giao tiếp với thầy để thúc đẩy tiếng anh.
Nếu có cơ hội,
quay lại thời sinh viên,
em sẽ cố gắng giao tiếp nhiều hơn và học hỏi kiến thức từ thầy nhiều hơn với tất cả thầy cô giáo của trường.
Untitled
Anonymous (Jack Peterson Translation)
He is the one who sees me the most,
and I find it very simple and gentle.
I remember the cold weather in Dalat.
He still walked on Bui Thi Xuan on his own
or with his students.
I really wanted, then, to make friends
and be closer with the teacher.
But I was still very shy,
and lacked confidence.
I was shy from birth.
A girl from a rural family of Vietnam
so I did not dare use him to boost my English.
If I had the opportunity,
back in my student days,
I would try to communicate more and learn from the teachers,
more with all the teachers of the school.
Mirror Poem
Jack Peterson
He is the one who sees me the most,
and I find it very simple and gentle.
I remember the cold weather in Dalat.
I still walked on Bui Thi Xuan on my own
or with him.
I really wanted, then, to make friends
and be closer with him and all the students.
But I was still very shy,
and lacked confidence.
I was shy from birth.
A boy from a rural family of Ohio
so I did not dare appear opportunistic.
If I had the maturity,
back in my teaching days,
I would try to communicate more and learn from him,
more with all the students of the school.
One Corpus
Collective Composition
One of the teachers
One of the most beautiful
One of your student
One of us would prefer sitting on the second row
One of the best times in my college
One of the best courses on the campus
One of the ESL courses
One of the movies
One of the homework
One of our classes
Tea flavors every morning makes one travel the world
It gathered us to speak as one
One Japan student
One Korean Student
One of our teachers
The one who sees me the most
The one with chewing gum in the mouth
Double was one!
One of us would prefer sitting on the second row
No one laughed at someone’s joke
Remember Corpus
Collective Composition
I can make a list of everything I remember in English, but I will do in Vietnamese
I remember the cold weather in Dalat
I remember sitting with students from every Africa, and Asia
I remember the most impressive was Thanh Van
I remember you have wonderful eyes
I remember once a week getting online
I remember in the classroom we had a great view
I remember more than half the students were wearing the same
hoodies
If I remembered right, Hung, a hotboy of the class, sang
I remember one time the TV wasn’t working
I remember one time we did our presentation
I still remember yesterday like the image of a young teacher
Yet it is long time to remember the details
I remember she enjoyed taking a nap on the couch
I remember laughing and making friends
Remember myself with a big smile
I can’t remember the books we read together
I remember our class always had a very fun time
Sorry I couldn’t remember the exact number
I remember one time Hansol asked
If I remember correctly
I remember one day I was taking Amy’s class
I remember Mr. Peterson
I remember that you always gave us short stories
I remember the course name
I remember the direction the projection screen faced
I remembered the feelings of being accepted/approved
This is all I remembered
His Corpus
Collective Composition
His classroom activities
His tall and thin body
His homesick
His foreign teacher
His own
His students
His voice
His facial expressions
His innate calmness
His questions
His widely open eyes
My Class Corpus
Collective Composition
My class had about 35 plus students
Almost all students in my class were really interested in Mr. Jack’s lessons
There were about nearly 40 students in my class
You ate candies, bananas in my class
My class usually learned in A7, A8 buildings
Jack is the most respected teacher of my class
My class is unique
Mr. Jack taught my class second year of American Literature
He was an idol of my class girls
The most beautiful Dalat girl in my class
There is a memory that my class cannot forget
To love my class now!
My class – AVK26D in DaLat University
There are around 10 – 15 students in my class
There were no trouble makers in my class
My Corpus Enjambment
Collective Composition
ESL class made my precious memori
st all students in my class were really
wind that catch my wings that makes
the movies with my Classmates and p
s a memory that my class cannot for
Mr. Jack taught my class the second
take you out of my memory from tim
rous so many of my female friends li
ries will exist in my mind forever ind
eparated with all my friends and famil
I start to talk to my Chinese friends w
that jumped into my brain that we us
you’ve known, my dream came true
I Was Corpus
Collective Composition
I was still very shy
I was shy from birth
I was a student
I was a little bit scared
I was one of your student
I was nervous
I was tired of my new lifestyle
I was taking Amy’s class
I was nervous
I was expressing tons of personal thoughts
I was just separated with all my friends and family
I was back in Taylor
As if I was part of American Culture
As if I was passionate student
As if I was independent person but cared
I was young too
I was an alien
I was a stranger
I was nervous as an alien
I was already going to the light with you
Present Tense I Corpus
Collective Composition
I remember
I wake up
I look
I want
I reach
I realize
I see
I love
I guess
I hear
I start
I think
I still remember
I see
I grow
I look back
I wish
I miss
I wash
I make my way
I get into the classroom
I restart
I get bored
I make a kind of joke
I come
I decide
I desire
I feel
I do remember
I forget
I try not to
I put my life at stake
I find it very simple and gentle
I don’t have
I don’t even know
I am not good at writing poems
I can imagine
I can try
I can make a list
I can help
I am sure
I have a presentation assignment
I have to take you out of my memory
I have left behind
I am writing
I am having other classes
I am forever thankful
I am an emotional person
I am winter earth
I am from elsewhere
I once hath been
I can’t compose a poem
I can’t remember
I can’t help
I don’t know why
I still have pictures
Past Tense I Corpus
Collective Composition
I felt
I really wanted
I wanted to walk
I walked
I wanted to take
I got
I gained
I found a home
I fell into sleep
I slept
I had a dream
I opened my eyes
I couldn’t remember
I could communicate
I had to answer
I did not dare
I did learn
I saw
I thought
I remembered
I would spend time
I would try
I would feel curious
I met
I liked
I enjoyed
I missed
I brought
I expected
I realized
I really enjoyed
I did not really get connected
I didn’t have enough time
I accepted that
I had spoken English
I had understood
I had opportunity
I had many thoughts
I had the opportunity
I had a sense of accomplishment
Future Tense I Corpus
Collective Composition
I will do
I will try
I will never forget
I will not be conquered
Friends Corpus
Collective Composition
Friends
My friends
Me and my friends
My female friends
my Chinese friends
all my friends
My beloved friends
A teacher and a friend
Foreign friend
Jack and my old friends
new friends
laughing and making friends
to make friends
good friends
Like a best friend
English Corpus
Collective Composition
Everything I remember in English
Enthusiastic English learner
A new English classroom
English language levels
Learning English in English
In English lessons, foreign teachers often organized fun games
To teach English
He taught English
My first English teacher in the US
Jack had taught English in Vietnam
American English Pronunciation
Everyone shared their joke in English
We learned how to write an English essay
English song
Sing English songs
Some English poems
How to write English poems
A lot of beautiful English songs and poems to help students learn
To help students learn English
Boost my English
Standard English
Various English accents
Their English accents would follow a white woman
Different cultural observation for learning English
To improve my English
improving in English skills
Great improvement for my English
We were all in that classroom to learn English
Sharing our thoughts in English
Not only how to read, write, and share in English
Speak English more and more fluently
Korean, Chinese, and English
We didn’t learn just English!
The English language is not the only thing you learn
Other English explanation
Things like broken English
I wish I had spoken English better
All Corpus
Collective Composition
All I remembered
For all the fields of the world
In all three languages
With all the teachers
All white teachers
All old
Throughout all sections of classes
All four modules
All activities
For all the students
Almost all students
All EFL students
From all over the world
From all around the globe
All of them in the class
All of us in the classroom
With all sorts of writings and drawings
All the set up of chairs
Where all the students sat around
We all sit in the front row
All my friends and family
All of that experience
All the things taught to me
All along the path
All my life
All the time
All winter
All I want
Most of all a teacher
Dancing all around