Textual Reading-July 9th

For in-class reading this week, we had to read the Introduction to Poetry, which was very dry and boring to me. I was glad that we didn’t have a Down and dirty quiz over it though. There were a lot of terms to remember. I would know considering I took 12 pages of notes!! Anyways, I was happy that we got to choose one poem that we liked and read it to the class. I think everyone chose very good poems. I have always been a fan of poetry. I enjoy writing rhyming poems more then anything, but reading and discussing them in class I think helped a lot of people find out the true meaning of what’s really going on in the poems. Hearing everyone’s perspective is really cool. And I didn’t know that the speaker of a poem actually had a name! I found that intriguing. I also didn’t know that an idiom was a poet’s personal use of words to mark his or her poetry. I was also really excited to find out more about confessional poetry, since Olivia and I chose to do our final project over the Confessional Schools period. Sylvia Plath is one of the main poets from that era and I have enjoyed reading her work so far. I still can’t believe she committed suicide! Wows there were some crazy people back then.