Before I took this class, I had absolutely no interest in poetry whatsoever. I had always thought of it as something hard and pointless. But now that I’ve been writing tons of poems in the last month, I realize that there’s a lot I didn’t know about the poetry language and the poetry world. I used to always think of poetry as just rhyming, but now I see that most poems don’t use rhyme, or even a meter! Lots are in free verse, which I like the best, and I also really enjoy doing muse work with “Movies of Your Mind.” It helps me think more creatively and outside the box. I like not being restricted and poetry lets me do whatever I want. From all the recent work we’ve done so far, the two I liked the most were Rimbaud and Mayakowsky. Rimbaud because he writes in prose and his poems are not really about anything in particular-there’s no story line so I found it easier. Mayakowsky because it was fun to make everything sound so angry and exaggerated.
I feel the exact same way, I feel as though reading poetry is similar to reading anything else. I find myself reading more poetry than anything else recently. Especially as the season changes I find myself trying to associate it with poems we've read.
ReplyDeleteI, too, liked the Mayakowsky exercise. I favor his stuff over others we have read because, mainly, it is easy to read; there aren't any vague references that get lost and leave me wondering what is actually going on in the poem.
ReplyDeleteI also was blind to the poetry world before this class. I found it tedious to examine poems picking out all of the poetry techniques. I feel as though with mayakowsky it is easier to read and learn how poetry is really a free language. Mayakowsky and Rimbaub I feel give an illusion of random and free verse and words, yet when you read their poems more than once you begin to pull certain things away from each line.
ReplyDeleteI also realllly enjoyed the Mayakovsky written poems, they were very straight forward and easy to interpret. I love simple poems that are vivid but clear ;)
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