A Mirror of Us

This is a project of empowerment. "A Mirror of Us" embraces patriarchal liberation, while celebrating divine femininity. Inspired by “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, this multimodal project aims to shatter conformist ideologies that are all too common. This poem was created as part of a multimodal project for an American Literature class using the following prompt: You are responding to literature using creative techniques in two phases. In the first phase, you will compose a 2-4 page piece of creative writing that includes a theme we’ve studied in the class that has significance to you. That creative writing is “in conversation” with a literary text from any assigned reading in the course that has the theme you selected. The text you write is in a creative genre different than the genre of the literary text you selected. The second phase of the assignment is to transform your creative writing into a multi-modal text. The goal for this dialogic project is to draw on a practice of American writers responding to earlier generations’ work. Then, drawing on contemporary work with visual and auditory elements, we extend our thinking with a multimodal text to deepen our study of key themes in American Literature.