Discuss your initial ideas about poetry...yes, you can be honest! How was Bill Watterson's poem on parents different from your ideas about poetry? Of the poems we have read and/or discussed in class, which was your favorite? Which was your least favorite? What did you react to? Were there any elements that you found confusing? Explain yourself thoroughly. Your response needs to be at least 100 words, and you need only respond to me.
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Ember Nelson
1/23/2015 01:35:17 am
My initial idea of poetry is close to what we studied in class. Although, I'm a bit better with the classification of poems than I was before. Of the poems we read, my least favorite was the Calvin and Hobbes. My favorite, however, was Porphyria's Lover. The only thing about poetry is confusing is just labeling. Other than that, Poetry seems rather smooth for me. The reaction to my favorite poem was probably my favorite. We went from zero to sixty within the course of two lines. First it was romantic, then, murderous. Though it depends on what you take the woman to be. It could either be a romantic story of a hero saving his love. Or a tragic poem of a man who had gone insane and murdered his wife or girlfriend.
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Moli Metheny
1/23/2015 01:38:38 am
I really like poetry. It's an element of writing that I really enjoy both making and reading. However some poetry I like more then others. Such as Poe and Frost. I love both these well known poets but I do prefer Poe more just because of the slightly dark nature he puts into some of his works. Our of all of the poems that we have done so far I like 'The road not taken' the best because of the symbolic nature of it. I'm not sure I have a least favorite yet. Sometimes the mood and tone mix me up because in so many poems they are the same, so when you get one that separates them, it's kind of hard to know the difference.
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Chris Stoppel
1/23/2015 01:45:07 am
I don't feel like poetry is very important in the modern world. Yes, it's deep in feelings and meaning;however no one really cares. Knowing poetry isn't going to help us out there in a job interview or anything of that nature. I never really got into any of the poems that we read in class, but I guess I'm sort of interested in poems that relate to things that are going on in my life at the moment. They can be inspirational, to keep me striving for things I want so bad. I still don't understand the iambic pentameter and stuff like that. It's very confusing and I don't get how to mark up stanzas with stressed and unstressed.
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Shayla Purdy
1/23/2015 01:45:35 am
I don't know much about poetry, so pretty much what we have learned in class is all I know. I love reading the different types and learning more about how to label them. My favorite poem has been Porphyria's lover. I just like the way it was written and I understood it. I would have to say the second was the bloody men are like bloody buses. I mean for the most part I liked it, but I just didn't understand what they were talking about at first. The Calvin and Hobbes one wasn't one of my favorite. I just am not a big fan of the comics. I like more poetry that is romantic or dark. It makes it more interesting. When I don't understand what they are talking about it just makes it harder. I would love to learn more about poetry and how it works though.
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Whitney Thiessen
1/23/2015 01:46:01 am
I think poetry is good for us, from the poems read in class have been good choices I prefer more strong murdorous poems but its nice to get a love poem or a year after poem. I didn't like the "lover" poem it honestly pissed me off starting out fresh and feeling like the girl is dying and then bam, he kills her with her own hair. Like no messed up but the fact that the mood stayed the same was deseeding too I like poetry that is up and down mood wise. Sometimes the word choice was not always a choice I would have put sometimes gives off the wrong impression, to us readers.
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Kylie Shoulder
1/23/2015 01:47:21 am
I personally am not a huge fan of poetry. Which is strange because I like the idea of poetry. I think the main reason I don't necessarily enjoy poetry all that much is because I honestly have no stinking clue how to write poetry. So maybe it's more of an envious thing. My favorite poem we have read so far is a tie between The Road Not Taken and For Malcolm, A Year After. I like The Road Not Taken because it makes you think. As seniors we have choices to make and decisions that are going to change our lives for the next several years and that poem is exactly about that. Now the poem For Malcolm, A Year After had me interested mainly because when I was a junior I loved learning about Malcolm X and all the things he did while we was alive. And also I love the idea of a memorial poem. It makes it seem like it actually means something.
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Kylie Shoulders
1/23/2015 01:48:11 am
lololololol there's suppose to be an s at the end of my last name
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Jaxon Ramsey
1/23/2015 01:49:41 am
I find poetry a bit confusing, not due to the subjects we talk about but just due to the labeling. I like it though, it really brings out a beauty to writing that people don't often get to see or understand, I would say my favorite poem we've read so far was "The Road not Taken" by Robert Frost. That poem just speaks to me in a way the others didn't, it's almost hopeful, not matter which road you go down, you can always find happiness. The right road could lead to an exciting life full of adventure while the second road leads to a comfy family life with an average job. Yet both of these roads can lead to happiness. To me that's amazing, you never know what could happen. The poem I disliked the most was the Calvin and Hobbes one. It just bored me, seemed a little to childish for what we've been reading before. All in all though, i'm really enjoying poetry and getting to understand more about it,
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Amber Mendez
1/23/2015 01:50:01 am
My ideas on poetry really depend on the poem and the message of the poem. It depends on what the poem is about. It can’t be about something meaningless, that’s not what poetry is about. As for my opinion on Bill Watterson’s poem, it’s not really something that I would normally read. I’m more of a Poe kind of girl. My favorite poem was probably Bloody Men Are Like Bloody Buses. I thought it was amusing how it ended with “I should have just bloody walked.” My least favorite was probably the one by Bill Watterson because it’s nothing like what I would usually read. I reacted to Bloody Men Are Like Bloody Buses. I was laughing really hard. I didn’t find anything confusing.
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Shyanne Anderson
1/23/2015 01:50:26 am
My initial thought about poetry is that some of it is boring and yet still very confusing. Some poetry just doesn't make sense because everybody can take what they read in a different way. The poem by Bill made me think about how you can take real life and how everyone feels and then make make it funny yet understanding. My favorite so far would be the one about the parents. But my least favorite was the one that we just read, "Porphyria's Lover". I just didn't like how it could have so many meanings and how it was also a loving poem until the end and then yet again it still made the death of the women seam so beautiful.
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Caroline May
1/23/2015 01:50:46 am
My idea of poetry before we started talking about it in class was basically limited to Dr Suess. I know that we see poetry in every day life, but was kind of interesting to see how much thought actually goes into the process of creating a poem. I definitely have learned a lot. I personally enjoyed Mali's poems, and slam poetry. I thought it was really cool how into it he got, and that it wasn't as boring as some poetry. My least favorite poem has been the Romeo and Juliet sonnets, just because how boring the are. It's so descriptive when honestly it's just way to wordy for me. I think that the telling the scancion can sometimes be tricky, but it's like a puzzle. I like puzzles. Over all I am excited to learn more about poetry.
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Kailey Cordell
1/23/2015 04:12:34 am
Poetry is one subject I usually ignore because it is simply too difficult to read. However, I have started to enjoy it more and more within the last two years. Like grammar in a general sense, I love being able to “solve the puzzle.” I have all the knowledge and resources to be able to understand poetry, but it’s up to me to figure out what the words on the page actually mean. Out of the poems we have read in class, my favorite is probably “Bloody Men are like Bloody Busses,” written by Amy Sutton. It was fun to relate to, and a funny poem altogether. My least favorite is “My Mom and Dad Are Not What They Seem.” I didn’t enjoy this one as much because it felt very childish in how it was written. My favorite reaction was reading through “Porphyria’s Lover.” The shock on my face must have been quite hilarious.
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Aarique Anderson
1/23/2015 05:31:59 am
I find poetry really difficult to understand but also amazing . But i honestly think that we can all relate with Bill watterson's poem . It explains for most of us whats going on in our lifes I would go with For Malcolm A year later :poem for my favorite . It was during a hard time for black people ,that still goes on til this day . And the Bloody men or like Bloody buses is my least favorite but i still like both of them . It was confusing but I got a gist of it . And the elements i find confusing is the metaphors.
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Sierra Werries
1/25/2015 10:59:28 am
I would say that I like reading poetry, I just don't like trying to find out what the metaphor is in them, or marking them. I don't have one favorite, I have two. I can't decide between Bloody Men are Like Bloody Buses and Porphryia's Lover. I feel like any girl could relate to Bloody Men are Like Bloody Buses, so that's why I like that one. Porphryia's Lover is just different and it has a sort of mad twist to it. I love it when stories or poetry has a twist in it. It makes it so much more interesting. My least favorite was For Malcolm, A Year After. Yes, it was interesting, but I couldn't really relate to it. It wasn't different neither. It was just kind of plain to me. Simple I guess. I like to read poetry that I can relate to or that's different like Porphryia's Lover.
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Gabriel Rowe
1/25/2015 12:32:08 pm
Poetry is beautiful in many ways. I appreciate poetry but my skill at writing is really bad. I like finding and reading peotry. i think my favorite type would be the kind taylor moli illustrates. I enjoy abstract poetry because it makes you think deeper than you think you can. The points that poetry hit on is great because it can go any where and it can go everywhere in subject matter
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