Journal # 9--On Poetry
Now that you've had a chance to dwell with poetry awhile, reflect on what you feel is its usefulness and relative importance in the grand scheme of the universe. What would life be like without poetry? What arguments could be made for doing more poetry than we do in public school?
Did your experience this time around change your relationship with poetry at all? Which was the easiest poem to write? Which was the most difficult? Are you left with any questions about poetry or poets in general? Have you any desire to read and/or write more poetry independently of this class?
I have always been the kind of person, who liked to read poetry, but have never been one who has really liked to write it. I think that without poetry the world would be a very different place. Poetry shows how different the world used to be, without it we wouldn't understand Shakespeare time. It could be very productive to do more poetry in public schools, because we never know who could be the next Shakespeare.
My experience this time around really hasn’t changed my relationship with poetry at all; in fact, it might have made me dislike it a little more. It’s not that I do not like poetry, or the way you taught it, it’s just that every time I end up writing poetry, I tend to get some of the darkest feelings in me coming out, and those are the things I would rather keep to myself.
I’m not really sure what the easiest poem was for me to write, but out all of them, I think I liked the found poem the most. It was definitely the most fun. The most difficult poem for me to write was the imitation poem, no doubt about it. Every time I tried to do it, I either ended up doing the exact opposite theme of the real poem, or it just ended up sounding really stupid. Thank god, I ended up doing that work for you so I didn’t have to write it in the end, because I am sure it wouldn’t have ended up being very good.
I would like to read more poetry out side of class, but I have always liked to read it. There is something about poetry that makes my heart melt. When you read someone’s poem, and it is the exact same thing you are going through in life at the moment, it makes you feel better, because you know that at least one person in the world understands. That is the real reason I have always enjoyed it.
I have always been the kind of person, who liked to read poetry, but have never been one who has really liked to write it. I think that without poetry the world would be a very different place. Poetry shows how different the world used to be, without it we wouldn't understand Shakespeare time. It could be very productive to do more poetry in public schools, because we never know who could be the next Shakespeare.
My experience this time around really hasn’t changed my relationship with poetry at all; in fact, it might have made me dislike it a little more. It’s not that I do not like poetry, or the way you taught it, it’s just that every time I end up writing poetry, I tend to get some of the darkest feelings in me coming out, and those are the things I would rather keep to myself.
I’m not really sure what the easiest poem was for me to write, but out all of them, I think I liked the found poem the most. It was definitely the most fun. The most difficult poem for me to write was the imitation poem, no doubt about it. Every time I tried to do it, I either ended up doing the exact opposite theme of the real poem, or it just ended up sounding really stupid. Thank god, I ended up doing that work for you so I didn’t have to write it in the end, because I am sure it wouldn’t have ended up being very good.
I would like to read more poetry out side of class, but I have always liked to read it. There is something about poetry that makes my heart melt. When you read someone’s poem, and it is the exact same thing you are going through in life at the moment, it makes you feel better, because you know that at least one person in the world understands. That is the real reason I have always enjoyed it.
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