We have had a good journey though poetry so far, reading a diverse range of poems. Discuss what poetry is or means to you. Your response needs to be at least 100 words, and you only need to respond to me.
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Nate
4/10/2015 04:16:20 am
My favorite poems are ones I can relate to. Not exactly rich in imagery, but with sensations and emotions I've lived and experienced. Which is why I hate Shakespeare. I find most of his stuff thick and wordy. It's hard for me to find meaning. I love poems about food. Best poems are about food. You can write whatever you want about food. The flavor, the smells, texture. Personally, I think you could write an entire poetry book about bacon. Is this 100 words? My feelings on poetry are pretty straightforward. I really like people to say what they want to say. Good stuff.
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Amanda Wilde
4/10/2015 04:19:21 am
I enjoy poetry much more this year than I have in the past. I have a new appreciation for it because of the diversity of poems we have read. I like it so much because everyone interprets each poem differently. You can get 100 different opinions on just one piece of work. I like that most of the time you can't be wrong. To me, poetry means a way to express yourself. Each of the poems we have read has related to the author themselves or a current event happening. I like that each author expresses themselves in a different way.
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Gallagher Martin
4/10/2015 04:19:40 am
I enjoy poetry a lot more when it's read out loud in front of the class as we analyze and pick a piece them. I find it interesting when I read a poem and think I know what it's about, and then I see a new side to it I never would have thought about. I like how there is no right or wrong answer in poetry. One person can think they have it figured out and another person might disagree and they can both be right. It's also fun to read poetry with a teacher who's passionate about it, and students who actually care.
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Alexis Young
4/10/2015 04:20:04 am
The only poems I hate are the ones I can't understand (i.e., most Shakespearian poems). I did enjoy reading the poems, though - especially the ones with a huge metaphorical meaning. I especially loved the poem "Porphyria's Lover" by Robert Browning - metaphorical meanings out the wazoo. I wouldn't necessarily read poems on my own time, but I enjoyed exploring the different types of poems in this class.
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Megan Avila
4/10/2015 04:20:23 am
I used to be apathetic when it came to poetry. I liked writing it, but I never cared to analyze any of it. Now, I actually really can get into analyzing them and I don't find myself nodding off to sleep from boredom. I also like how one poem can have such a different meaning to every person. It's interesting to hear everyone's perspectives about the ideas and how we can each have a differing interpretation about the same piece of work. Poetry is a fantastic way to express how you really feel, but you can also hide the actual meaning. It's really cool in that way. I'm now a moderate fan of poetry after this class.
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Dakota Cavanaugh
4/10/2015 04:20:30 am
Poetry for me is a means of writing down feelings. I compare poetry to song writing, and art. When a poet writes a poem, I feel like it is a way for that writer to express themselves and their feelings. I enjoy reading poems because they always seem to have some sort of philosophical idea behind them. Or, if they don't, they at least tend to have some sort of humorous element that makes them worth reading. So as a whole, I enjoy reading poetry, and a well written poem that is filled with emotion from the poet is the most enjoyable kind to read for me. As a general rule, I like contemporary poetry the most because it is more straightforward and applicable than classic poetry. In my opinion, poetry is pretty neat and it is a greatly enjoyable past time both to read, and to write.
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Mallory Harger
4/10/2015 04:20:56 am
Poetry is very meaningful to me, now. Prior to this year, I had never really been into poetry. I hadn’t really read much poetry before this class. I am an avid reader and read all the time, especially during the summer! This year, I have found an appreciation for poetry. I love how so much emotion and passion can be put into such a small amount of words. I also love how each of us can interpret a poem differently. With books, it all seems to mean the same thing and you have to interpret it a certain way in order to understand the rest of the book. With poetry, you bring your own connotation to every single line. Like with the poem about the sugar plums. I could just picture my little sister, Bubba, telling me this with a little smirk on her face.
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Josie
4/10/2015 04:21:30 am
Poetry to me is a way to express emotions. I think that is how all writing is. I don't like really examining and reading too much into poetry. I like taking poetry very literally because that is how the author wrote it. I think that looking really deeply into poetry takes away from what each person reads it as. Everyone has their own opinions on writing and if we talk too much about it and look too much into then everyone will have the same thoughts on it and that is not how writing is meant to be taken. I like poetry and I like believing that what i took from it was the reason the author wrote it even if I am wrong. The is the beauty of poetry and writing in general.
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Laura Peck
4/10/2015 04:21:46 am
I enjoy poetry because it makes you feel in a way that other things may or may not. It’s kind of like love languages. Some people like receiving gifts, some people like words of affirmation. Poetry is just another thing that can calm or infuriate a spirit. For me, poetry feeds my analytical self. I like to over analyze things and have opinions about them, so poetry helps me do that. Also, I love that I can relate poetry to my own life, even if it’s not the intention of the poem. I can connect so many poems to feelings or times in my life, whether they be happy times or dark times, and the poems help me express those situations thoroughly, which, I can’t always do on my own. I really like that poetry just provides an outlet for emotions.
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Madison Hoffman
4/12/2015 03:43:29 am
I like reading poetry that makes sense to me. Reading older poetry is difficult to understand at first because of the language and some of the abstract ideas. I usually have to read those types of poems 4 or 5 times before I develop an opinion on what I think the speaker is saying or what the author meant. When I do read a poem that I understand, I like to hear other people's interpretations of the poem and get a different perspective. I think that's probably my favorite thing about poetry is that it can be interpreted in so many ways. Poetry to me is a way for people to express themselves. It's very similar to song lyrics to me.
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Corben Davis
4/12/2015 10:53:15 am
I am indifferent about poetry. I enjoy the ones that you read and there is almost a solid answer on what the meaning of the poem is. On the other hand, there are poems that can mean several different things and you can't be sure on which is the best answer. Not knowing is a terrible feeling when answering questions on poems. I am not the biggest reader, but I enjoy some to read poems every now and then and thinking about the possible meanings to what the author is trying to say.
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Sierra Gant
4/12/2015 10:53:31 am
On our poetry journey, I have realized that I like the poems a lot more after we discuss them. They make so much more sense after we read them aloud even. I really need to read a poem a few times to get the actual meaning. Sometimes I get a different meaning from the poem than what we get in class. The discussion really clarifies the meaning of the poems for me. It's hard to get the same understanding on my own. I do enjoy the imagery of poetry, but also like when poems are real. I used to think all poetry was the same like Shakespearean type. I tend to like the modern poetry more.
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Hannah Marshall
4/12/2015 12:17:16 pm
I like poetry that I can relate to an everyday situation. I like being able to figure out what the hidden meaning is because sometimes you can go through life not knowing what to do because you don't know the meaning of it yet. Reading poetry out loud gives the poem and the poet more justice because you have tone. Having more than one persons perspective on a piece can alter your thinking in a good way and it can also help you in making a decision on what the speaker is trying to get across. I liked the poem by Dickinson about her being pregnant. If I hadn't read it out loud with the class, I would have come to a conclusion way later than when we discussed it.
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Stephanie Farney
4/12/2015 02:26:14 pm
For me, poetry is a means for expressing emotion. I used to not appreciate, but then I started to write songs, which are arguably poetry. Now, I have a better appreciation for poems because some of them are so broad that they can apply to just about anyone. This applies to songs as well. I try to be broad with the lyrics I write because I really appreciate songs or poetry that I can relate to. In my opinion, that's what distinguishes poetry as a form of art. I also appreciate the fact that most poems aren't superficial, and that there is usually a deeper meaning beneath a poem's literal one. Sometimes you have to search for that meaning, but once you find it, the poem becomes a lot cooler. I like how easily you can make a poem personal and how you can use them to describe yourself or your experiences. A poem can mean something different to two similar people, or it can also mean the same thing to two very different people. That's what makes it kind of cool, in my opinion.
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Riley Bahre
4/12/2015 03:12:49 pm
Poetry has always been a fascinating topic for me; whether the poem addressed pertains to life and love, death and sorrow, time and space, etc. I find that I come to a relatively similar conclusion every time I read and yet... not. In order to understand poetry, one must find that they are at an intellectual disadvantage at the very start of their read: you have absolutely no idea what your poem will be like, whether you should remain in a literal sensibility or permiate through the proverbial membrane of irrationality, or even if your interpretation will ultimately match the author's. When all is said and done (with your ideology questioned and your mind abashed with an ironic sense of self doubt) a poem will rarely hand an answer to you on a golden platter with the words "I did it!" engraved with glitter, though not in hesitation of taking a bite of the already stale cookie beforehand... maybe that was a bit too harsh, but I digress, as ultimately I would come to find that an answer really isn't what I needed from a read in the first place. I think what I really needed from a read, any read, was more of a... reminder; a reminder that I'm not always going to be able to fully comprehend something that could be blatantly obvious to somebody else, a reminder to keep my own beliefs in tact whilst indulging in someone else's for a while ( and possibly taking something away for myself), a reminder that no matter how right I think I should be, all evidence I can find in my favor and the shadow of a doubt wearing thinner and thinner, there's always going to be a thorn in the back of my mind saying "you could be wrong". Maybe that's the reason that Frost's "road less traveled" is one of the most popular pieces ever written; it shows that there will never truly be a one sided incident where somebody was right or, somebody was wrong, it's the action taken by those two individuals that intwines their fate and gives them purpose (human history is nearly undeniable proof of this). Maybe I'm giving the art a bit too much credit, maybe I'm not; ultimately the answer will have to be found in the few interpretations that may not even come of this reply. (Hell, you're probably saying to yourself: "is this dumbass serious?" Again, who knows...
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Riley
4/12/2015 03:16:59 pm
Probs unnecessary but: 'serious?")' Hate when that happens...
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zeldalink
10/21/2015 09:13:14 am
my teacher gave us this poem to interpret and I it started a debate abotu the general understanding of art and if there is a certain baseline of understanding to everything. This brought me here to conduct a little experiment if you guys don't mind. What do you think the author wants to say?
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