Beloved is finally gone and done- or off hiding in the woods with the Sasquatch waiting for a chance to return, we can't be sure. Maybe Serge could tell us- and next class we are going to start the poetry unit. The...poetry...unit. In part I'm greatly looking forward to this, but for the same reason I'm also dreading it: I don't get poetry. I know I personally dislike most rhyming ones and like ones with lots of imagery, but when it comes to interpreting most poetry, I usually get stuck at "Uh, that sounds...pretty.". I've always thought of poetry as very symbolic or emotional, meaning the most to the author. It's easier to write it than to read it. Even for the poems I understand the meaning of, I can't place meaning in line breaks or punctuation. I can't separate ideas well either. Ideas in stories have more pages more time for em to sort them out, poetry is so short that it takes me hours longer to piece it together. It could be that I over think it, or psych myself out (Oh geez it's poetry its going to be ten times deeper than my brain is capable of diving and have weird images and ideas I'll never understand. Better to give up now and save myself the trouble), or maybe it's just old-English poetry I can't understand, or maybe I really am this inept (thank you 3 years of creative writing classes. At least I can talk pretty to myself sometimes, since I can't talk well to others).
I googled "most famous poems" out of curiosity, and received a bunch of rhyming poems, most of which I have read before in school. I expect the ones we receive in class will be of higher literary quality (not that rhymes CAN'T be good quality...it's just....I hate them unless it's to music of sorts or written intentionally childish...). I hope in class we break poems down into pieces together before they're simply assigned as homework and quizzed about the next day and are taught how to analyze how purposeful or meaningful line breaks and punctuation are, as well as just overall taught how to understand poetry.
...All I ever do on my blog is complain about how I either don't like or don't get something. I really need to reevaluate my life.
Anyone up for a rhyme?
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/top_poems.html
I googled "most famous poems" out of curiosity, and received a bunch of rhyming poems, most of which I have read before in school. I expect the ones we receive in class will be of higher literary quality (not that rhymes CAN'T be good quality...it's just....I hate them unless it's to music of sorts or written intentionally childish...). I hope in class we break poems down into pieces together before they're simply assigned as homework and quizzed about the next day and are taught how to analyze how purposeful or meaningful line breaks and punctuation are, as well as just overall taught how to understand poetry.
...All I ever do on my blog is complain about how I either don't like or don't get something. I really need to reevaluate my life.
Anyone up for a rhyme?
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/top_poems.html
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