My major poetry quotation is “Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.” by Muriel Rukeyser quoted in Highs by Alex J. Packer. To me this quotation means that poetry does not just appear out of thin air. Poets write about their views, life experiences, and the world around them. Once we have experienced something we can go back and write how it was, how we felt, how it looked, or so many other things in the form of a poem. Poems can be written in more ways than a story can be told. It can add to the character of the poem. How the writer set up the poem could also determine how fast or slow the poem is read. I found three poems that had certain parts that made me think of the same meaning as my major poetry quotation or they back up the meaning …show more content…
The poems I found are Billy Collin’s "Introduction to Poetry" (P.40), Pablo Neruda’s “Words” but the version translated by Kristen Linklater (P. 103-104), and Gary Snyder’s “How Poetry Comes to Me” (P.140).
In the poem “Introduction to Poetry” by Billy Collins (P.40) the three lines I want to talk about are “I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out”, ”water-ski across the surface of a poem waving at the author’s name on the shore”, and “But all they want to do is tie the poem up to a change with a rope and torture a confession out of it”. To me the line “ I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out” goes together with the major poetry quotation I chose. I think that they both are talking about something being done and what is taken away from that action or experience that helps make poetry what it is. I also think it is saying poetry is like a maze and you have to work through the poem to find your way out. Making poetry is an experience in itself. Moving through the poem the next line that caught my eye was,
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Since this poem is so short it all stood out but each line for its own little reason. The poem starts out with “It comes blundering over the boulders at night”. This makes me think that not only poetry comes blundering through, but maybe a lot more. For example things like memories, stories, feelings of being happy, sad, angry, or everything in between. The next line goes “It stays Frightened outside the Range of my campfire”. At first glace I though only about what would lurks outside a fire (animals), but than I though of the writing process. Which led me to come up with maybe some memories or experiences that stand out more than others are lurking but they still need some help. The ideas are a little to timid to stand up or out without help or molding. Then the final line of the poem goes “I go to meet it at the edge of the light”, leaving me to think about helping those ideas that are lurking out and from them into something beautiful in its own. With not only words to tell a story, but images that get our minds, senses, and emotions going all at the same time. Making a unique piece of art that we get to read and share with those around
The first poem I think you should consider in adding to your list of poems is “For the Fire”, this poem was about the time I went in to the forest to get some lumber, and during my time there I noticed some of natures creations around me, like the kookaburra and wind that swerved in and out of the trees etc.
A poem that I have been studying recently is Assisi by Norman McCaig, which I found very interesting to read because it made a statement which relates to our world today even though the poem was wrote about thirty or forty years ago. The poem has lots of ideas including effective figures of speech, good choice of words, important images and irony. The statement that McCaig makes is, where ever there is great wealth it always exists along side great poverty.
Imagery uses five senses such as visual, sound, olfactory, taste and tactile to create a sense of picture in the readers’ mind. In this poem, the speaker uses visual imagination when he wrote, “I took my time in old darkness,” making the reader visualize the past memory of the speaker in “old darkness.” The speaker tries to show the time period he chose to write the poem. The speaker is trying to illustrate one of the imagery tools, which can be used to write a poem and tries to suggest one time period which can be used to write a poem. Imagery becomes important for the reader to imagine the same picture the speaker is trying to convey. Imagery should be speculated too when writing a poem to express the big
Allison, Barrows, Blake, et al. eds. The Norton Anthology Of Poetry . 3rd Shorter ed. New York: Norton, 1983. 211.
The poems facilitate the investigation of human experience through illustrating life’s transience and the longevity of memory.
Jarrell, Randall. ?Fifty Years of American Poetry.? The Third Book of Criticism. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969.
In today’s modern view, poetry has become more than just paragraphs that rhyme at the end of each sentence. If the reader has an open mind and the ability to read in between the lines, they discover more than they have bargained for. Some poems might have stories of suffering or abuse, while others contain happy times and great joy. Regardless of what the poems contains, all poems display an expression. That very moment when the writer begins his mental journey with that pen and paper is where all feelings are let out. As poetry is continues to be written, the reader begins to see patterns within each poem. On the other hand, poems have nothing at all in common with one another. A good example of this is in two poems by a famous writer by the name of Langston Hughes. A well-known writer that still gets credit today for pomes like “ Theme for English B” and “Let American be American Again.”
For this assignment, I have decided to write about a famous poem of Billy Collins which is titled as ‘Introduction to Poetry’ written in 1996.
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Brooks, Cleanth. The Well Wrought Urn: Studies of the Structure of Poetry. London: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947.
Poems are a way of expressing the feelings and emotions that the writer chooses to describe, usually using symbolic objects and comparing it to another thing using figurative language. There were many poets that came and went throughout history and there are still a lot today, one of which really caught my attention and her name is Maya Angelou. Maya Angelou is a very astounding poet with her 166 poems, but one really stood out to me and that was The Lesson. Maya Angelou had a very difficult life with the many challenges she faced being an African American during the timeframe of her life and she outlined these troubles in most of her writings. With her circumstances she just kept moving forward and giving it her best without giving up; she is a great model for anyone to follow.
The Norton Anthology of Poetry, ed. Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter, Jon Stallworthy, 5th edn (London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2005)
Brooks, Cleanth. The Well Wrought Urn: Studies of the Structure of Poetry. London: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947.
There is a wealth of imagery in the first two lines alone. The poem begins: