Drawing on concepts that you have encountered in the first five units of the module, identify creative features to be found in the following poem by Adrian Henri.
Any Prince to Any Princess
1August is comingand the goose, I’m afraid,is getting fat.There have been5no golden eggs for some months now.Straw has fallen well below market pricedespite my frantic spinningand the sedge is,as you rightly point out,10withered.I can’t imagine how the peagot under your mattress. I apologizehumbly. The chambermaid has, of course,been sacked. As has the frog footman.15I understand that, during my recent fact-finding tour of the Golden River,despite your nightly unavailing efforts,he remained obstinatelyfroggish.20I hope that the Three Wishes granted by the General Assemblywill go some way towards redressingthis unfortunate recent sequence of events.The fall in output from the shoe-factory, for example:25no one could have foreseen the work-to-ruleby the National Union of Elves. Not to mention the factthat the court has been fast asleepfor the last six and a half years.The matter of the poisoned apple has been taken up30by the Board of Trade: I think I can assure youthe incident will not berepeated.I can quite understand, in the circumstances,your reluctance to let down35your golden tresses. HoweverI feel I must point outthat the weather isn’t getting any betterand I already have a nasty chillfrom waiting at the base40of the White Tower. You must seethe absurdity of the situation.Some of the courtiers are beginning to talk,not to mention the humble villagers.45It’s been three weeks now, and not evena word.Princess,a cold, black windhowls through our empty palace.50Dead leaves litter the bedchamber;the mirror on the wall hasn’t said a thingsince you left. I can only ask,bearing all this in mind,that you think again,55let down your hair,reconsider.
Henri, A. (1980) ‘Any Prince to Any Princess’ in From the Loveless Motel, Jonathan Cape, London. https://www.poemhunter.com/ i/ebooks/ pdf/ adrian_henri_2012_3.pdf [Accessed 24.04.18]
*Write no more than 1000 words for this part.*
*Part 2 (1000 words)*
a.Taking your inspiration from Henri’s poem, rewrite it as either a passage from an autobiography or as a newspaper article.
*Write no more than 300 words for this step.*
b.Drawing on concepts that you have encountered in the first five units of the module, reflect on what you learned about creativity from the process of rewriting the poem.
*Write no more than 700 words for this step.*