Hard Headed Blues Analysis

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Kevin Young expressed and introduced several powerful ideas about poetry. For instance, he suggested that the form of poetry occurs organically; the form suggested fuels the subject for which poems he planned to write. This further confirmed the work our class does on essays whenever we explain how the subject the poet writes about is further suggested within the poem’s form. Kevin Young opened my eyes to the external effects on poetry. For example, Kevin Young described things about his office. I found it interesting how he would keep little things around that inspired an idea about a poem or further enhanced a thought of his. On the other hand, Kevin Young stated that not everything external effects his work. He explained that watching television and listening to several different types of music in the background doesn’t necessarily always effect his writing. Additionally, Kevin Young revealed that poetry doesn’t always come easy. For instance, he responded to a students question about line breaks by stating …show more content…

However, I watched a couple videos of Kevin Young reading his poems on YouTube. My favorite reading by Kevin Young is of his poem “Hard Headed Blues.” During his reading, it really struck me how his voice carried the words in the poem with the sounds of the blues. In the video, Kevin Young rocked rhythmically to his words, and carried his voice with words that resembled notes and chords from the blues scale. Consequently, Kevin Young’s reading intensified the sad topic of his poem. This illustrated to me powerful and moving a poem becomes when read aloud. As a matter of fact, Kevin Young read certain poems with a different rhythm and voice. This exposed the idea that when a person reads a poem aloud, he becomes the speaker of the poem. The poem overtakes the reader’s voice and escapes in a specific way to announce its message; I found this to be the real power behind

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