Friday, January 15, 2010
Guest Blogger - Heaven L.
Hello to everyone that is currently reading this. I have liked poetry since I was little. I liked the pictures and how the rhyming scheme was simple and easy to understand. Like green eggs and hams I would read that over and over again. Now in AP literature the poems are a bit more complicated and hard to understand. I have realized that there are a lot more things in poetry that I never realized before. For example how there can be allusions in some poems like in Dante when in one canto there was a part that symbolize Daedalus and Icarus. I have also learned that some poems have an allegory (I have also learned what an allegory is). Those are only a couple examples that I have learned and most likely I am going to learn a lot more which is perfectly fine with me. What I really like about poetry is that what ever you write a poem about; it will have a deeper meaning then when you just have the facts. Like the example of the eagle Ms. Arko showed us on day on the overhead. Anyone can get the facts about an eagle and be done with it, but the poem gave the eagle its own personal effect and portrayed facts about the eagle in an interesting and more understandable way. Poems can say anything and the reader can get a deeper understanding of that thing rather then looking it up in a dictionary. Personally I think a poem (no matter what it’s about) has true beauty of its own; a simple short poem can say a lot all the reader has to do is look for it. Like the poem Suicide’s Note, it’s very short but if you look deep enough you can tell that the poem has a lot more meaning then just those words. I have learned that true poets look for the perfect word, and the word uses all the meaning of it in the poem like in the poem Cross. The poem Cross could show a religious side, or a cross between races or anything else that has to do with the meaning of cross. Poetry beauty is shown different to each reader depending on there views and what they know. Well that’s all I have to say about poetry. Thank you for reading my blog.
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Poetry is a very deep and complex subject. There are many to interpert a single poem. Like in your example of The Second Coming, one person may see it as just an eagle, but others can take it to a further point saying that William Butler Yeats was predicting the future. I personally do not enjoy poetry that much because there is no one correct way to look at a poem.
ReplyDeleteHaha I loved Green Eggs and Ham as well :)
ReplyDeleteI never realized that poems could go so much deeper until I took this class. I don't really enjoy poetry much because it is hard for me to look at it from every single perspective, its my way or the highway when it comes to poetry, which makes it difficult for me to analyze poetry. I'm glad you enjoy it though because it shows that you are a lot more open minded that me. Bye Heaven!
The hardest thing about poetry is also the coolest thing about it, and that is the fact that there are so many different interpretations of a single poem. The fact that there is no definite answer makes it hard to interpret, but also lets readers decide for themselves what the poem really means. It's interesting what you can get out of a poem just by digging deeper and reading between the lines, which makes poetry a lot more interesting.
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ReplyDeleteAs poetry brings feeling to an object, it doesn't make it more understandable, accually it makes it harder. On the other hand, prose can tell you excactly what this object is about. Dante (poetry) - impossible to read.
Sparknotes (prose) - Nice and Easy read
Prose is an easier way to express yourself.
I think this because prose is an easier way of communication, therfore, prose is great.
I have always seemed to enjoy poetry more than most people when they groan and whine about an up coming reading, so it's nice to hear someone else shares my interest. Poetry definitely has a more artistic and visual feel to it, and it takes some of the greatest minds in literary history to do it right. Shakespeare unlocked some of the fundamental yet hidden tricks to capture an audience.
ReplyDeleteKeeping this in mind, Dante's Inferno took a few braincells to crack but the story itself I think was worth the struggle.
Anthony Schliesman
I personally LOVE the fact that there is really no "incorrect" way to interpret a poem, because that means that i can't be wrong :) but i do enjoy playing devil's advocate every once in a while when i think the poem could possibly mean something completely different than the rest of the class thinks it does. It's such a beautiful, rhythmic piece of art when written, and read for that matter, correctly.
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I agree with what Megan said about how it is cool that there are so many interpretations of what the writer was trying to say. But I also wonder if that was the intention of the poet. What if the author was just trying to write a simple poem that rhymed that makes people laugh. Maybe people are just reading too much into the poems. But on the other hand, I am sure there are (most probably are) lots of poets that write things with lots of deep meanings behind the words. Just something to think about.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if its just me but poetry just seems odd. One poem maybe seem very complex but really the author just meant to get across a very simple, basic point. And other peoms its just the opposite. Who is to say what you should and should not get out of the poem? Many times even the author leaves that up to the audience. I think anyone reading peotry needs to take it for what it means to them and understand it for what they think it means.
ReplyDeleteI'm a pretty to the point reader so poetry has never really been my thing. I'm alright at scraping off the obvious meaning from a text but when it comes to digging deeper, that's always been more of a struggle for me. When I was younger I used to just think that poems were just stories that rhymed, making it more enjoyable for me. As I got older and the definition of poetry got more blurred, it's become less enjoyable to me. It always seems as if we're over analyzing the text. Most of the time we most likely aren't, I've just never had the ability to pick up on those hidden meanings very quickly, which makes it seem as if we are. Just my opinion anyway.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I enjoy poetry because of the fact that the way you interpret it may be different then the way the person sitting next to you might. As Ms. Arko has said before, the world is much funnier the more information you know. This is also true with poetry; The more you understand the topic, the better you will be able to interpret the topic it is on, and the more you will be able to relate and connect with the poem. I enjoy that with poetry, it is up to you to understand the meaning the poem is trying to get across; whether or not you understand the "right" meaning simply doesn't matter because of the fact that with poetry, there are endless possibilites to what a poem might mean.
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