What is your first impressions of poetry? How does it compare with your ideas on poetry before we started this. How do you feel about it going forward? Your response must be at least 100 words, and you only need to respond to me.
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Leigh Hughes
1/15/2016 08:15:04 am
My impression of poetry is that it’s is deeper and more complex than I could’ve imagined. Every person could see a poem differently and each view could still be one hundred percent plausible. My ideas on poetry before we started this were very childish. For instance, I like when poems rhyme. I like poems that are funny. Now, however, my ideas on poetry have changed drastically because I have a deeper understanding of it. I can now appreciate poems with mature themes. Going forward, I think I will try to read more and more poetry just to gain experience and continue expanding my knowledge.
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Molly Black
1/15/2016 11:03:25 am
Forensics has kind of gotten me pumped up about poetryI really like poetry post 21st century. Pre-21st century poetry can be interesting, but I don't really enjoy having to sit and analyze it while I'm reading it. Poetry can have hidden deeper meanings that are incredibly complex. Often when reading a poem by myself I don't pick up on them, but discussing said poems in a group can help uncover it. I'm excited to keep going with poetry, but I have a feeling we will be looking at a lot older poetry as opposed to modern. I think we should look at slam poetry, it's pretty rad.
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Olivia Hansen
1/15/2016 11:07:01 am
I really didn't like poetry very much at first. I found it confusing and unnecessary, why not just say exactly how you feel? Why is there a need to make it rhyme, use iambic, all of this...just to make it more complicated? Poetry is also a lot harder to analyze than I ever realized! You have to analyze the title, even paraphrase! There’s just so much you have to think about in the process of writing/reading good poetry. It's a fun, complicated way to express yourself and can even be fun to read (unless you’re reading an old 15 century poem with lots of ‘iths and ‘tis, then I’m practically Dante in the first part of the Divine Comedy). It's more of an art than I ever realized, and I’m looking forward to reading more in the future.
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Shanyn Boese
1/15/2016 11:07:26 am
At first, I didn't think I was going to enjoy poetry. Everything I’ve done with it in school in the past has been boring uninteresting. Now, I actually look forward to reading poetry. I love analyzing different poems and seeing what they really mean. I like the challenge they present, and how we all can have very different opinions, and all still be right. I can’t wait to do more with poetry and learn how to write in a different style. I am excited to continue doing poetry in class, and hope I can apply it more to my life outside of school.
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Ashlee
1/15/2016 11:08:15 am
I've always been a huge fan of poetry. I love reading it and finding ways to relate to different authors. Since freshman year, it has been one of my favorite forensics events, so I've read a lot of modern poetry. I enjoy what we have been doing in class because it challenges me to dig deeper into older literature, which I have never been the best at. I'm excited to continue discussing it in class. Also, we should totally look at some of Andrea Gibson’s stuff. She’s pretty cool.
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Monet Kunde
1/15/2016 11:09:35 am
My first impression has been a little bit mixed. I like the analyzing part, but I don't like the multiple choice. For me that is kind of putting the poem into a bubble and not really allowing the student to analyze the poem and come up with their own idea about what it is trying to get across. I have always loved poetry, especially old 1600s poetry. I never went into depth with the analyzing and so far it has been great. I get to more fully understand what the speaker and the author are trying to get across. I think I will like it and learn to appreciate it even more.
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Nathan Scott
1/15/2016 11:26:21 am
My Impression of poetry in this class was surprise at how many people were moved by it. There are a lot of people who find very strong emotional connections to the poems that they read. After about the 5th person started crying due to a poem, I started to wonder why I did not have an emotional connection to any poem iv'e ever read. I've enjoyed poems before, but they have never truly moved me before, and I am not sure why. Hopefully I will learn to appreciate it more this semester and find why people attach themselves to the poems they read.
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Kaitlyn van Asselt
1/17/2016 07:35:12 pm
My first impression of poetry was rather mixed. I have always been a little wary of poetry, so I wasn't sure how it was going to go. However, for the most part I have enjoyed looking at and reading most of the poems. I have always liked poetry that rhymes and poems that make you feel happy. However, so far I have really enjoyed the other kinds of poems and realizing that everyone can have a different take on a poem and still be right. I enjoy hearing everyone's opinions and comparing them to my own. I am looking forward to reading more poetry in the future.
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Katie Wurm
1/17/2016 08:59:26 pm
My thoughts on poetry have remained unchanged for the most part. I still believe it is something I would not read in my free time. I do, however, enjoy knowing that there is structure and form to poems. I like that there are still rules to be followed (even if they don't all have to rhyme, which I think should be a requirement). I also find the lack of rules fun- like with the excessive commas and run-on sentences. I have to admit that I struggle with appreciating poetry, so this part of the class is definitely challenging me. Perhaps after a while poetry may be something I enjoy. In the meantime, I will continue splashing around as I attempt to keep my head above the surface.
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Tate Johnson
1/17/2016 09:09:00 pm
My first and most surprising impression of poetry would be that it includes a wide variety of genres, so to speak. Spanning from goofy rhyming by Dr. Suess or Shel Silverstein to metaphysical poets like John Donne, poetry can be attractive many people with different backgrounds. This may seem obvious to the occasional reader of poetry, but to me(the one who only read things like Silverstein and Dr. Suess as child), this was new. Poetry was only apparent to me from the Greek, Roman, Renaissance age, or goofy modern poets. After being exposed to an expanse of new literature, poetry just got a lot more interesting.
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Hannah Stecklein
1/17/2016 09:14:22 pm
My first impression of poetry is I like it. Trying to figure out all the forms and understanding structure is a bit frustrating though. I’m not the best at dissecting the poems and getting to the deeper meaning, but they sound pretty. Being forced to look for the deeper meaning is really nice though because I have a much better appreciation of poetry and it’s cool to find poems that I really can connect to now that I’m getting a little bit more into it. I like poetry more as we do more with it. I am totally fine with the poetry unit moving forward.
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Taylor Kynaston
1/18/2016 08:43:55 am
My first ever impressions of poetry was "wow!" this is fun, I love green eggs and ham! As I have gotten older i have come to realize that poetry is much more than just a bunch of "rhymey" words all strung together. This is furthered my knowledge and made me realize that poetry is really quite deep but only goes as deep as one wants to take it. With all this it has made appreciate poetry more than I did before the unit started. Because of this I am super comfortable with the unit and am ready for it to move forward and continue.
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