Summer Tuesday Challenge Number 5

In the forest, originally uploaded by Claude@Munich.

This week’s challenge is linked to the workshop we are running in Fabrica this week. There is a fantastc art installation which can make you feel as if you are wandering through a forest with the light shining through, similar to this beautiful picture above. Those of you who were at the workshop might like to use this as a continuation of what you have been working on. Please still send us your thoughts and words if you were not able to be there.

The challenge:
Read this wonderful poem by Robert Frost about being in a forest:

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening:

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

Here, the woods are presented as both familiar and mysterious. What you need to do is re-write the line ‘The woods are lovley, dark and deep’, which is the fourth line from the end. Replace the three adjectives with words that you would use to describe a forest.

So, for example, mine is: ‘The woods are lonely, bare and bleak.’

The last word doesn’t have to rhyme with keep!

Looking forward to hearing how you feel about the woods…

Lucy