Skipping This Week

Skipping this week on my blog because it has been a very very long week, and weekend. Also celebrating Katie and Kayla's 18th birthday. LOL oh also a halloween party!!!

On Reading Poems to a Senior Class at South High by D.C. Berry

I enjoyed this poem a lot and it actually made me laugh a little bit. I can just imagine me in the authors place in front of out AP Lit class and suddenly my classmates turn into fishys. What I got from this poem is something I will think about everytime I know present to the class about how we are all fish. From the poem I think that the author shows a good example of what a classroom turns into when a student is presenting a poem. It is always harder to control a class and keep the attention of the students when a fellow student it contrilling the class. The third stanza shows what I am talking about perfectly about how maybe a student is reading a poem to a class, but all the class is doing is talking and drowning out the person presenting. But when they do get the class to pay attention the presentation of the poem is great and they go and swim in the aquarium together and learn together. I really enjoyed how the author kept the fish metaphor all throughout the poem even until the very last line where the cat licks the gills away. I have never really read a poem like this where students are considered fish and I thought is was reall weird that I have something in common with those students. HAHA I am a fish!!!

Unveiling by Linda Pastan

Oh a new poem from newm packet equals excitement. I decided to do the poem Unveiled by Linda Pastan because it looked interesting, but also because it is mostly short and my brian is kind of dead right now. But I also liked her poem too. I thought it was interesting on how the author is not grieving for the loss of love ones, but jealous that they are all dead together and she feels left out of the picture. I don't necessarily think that she wants to be dead but mostly wants to be with her family again and she misses them, but in the process of missing them she is thinking of the memories of them. I do not understand why the title is Unveiling. Maybe she is unveiling old memories of the times of her family. I enjoyed the simplicity of this poem and this is a good start to the new packet of poems.

Inoculation by Susan Donnelly

This poem was read in class earlier this week and was very confused about what this poem was trying to say. The structure just doesn't make sense to me which in turn makes me even more confused with the poem. Even with the class discussion I did not understand what the purpose of the poem was. The only thing that I only really did understand that the author was talking about a histrorical event and people, but I never understood why this was specific and why the author wrote about those poeple and event. There was the end of the poem that I actually I did enjoy. I can't really explain why I like it some much, but I think the poem would be incomplete if the last stanza was not their. I just don;t understand the purpose of the poem, all I know it has something to do with small pox, which is a deadly disease and some sort of slaves.

In Blackwater Woods by Mary Oliver

This poem was probably one of my favorite poems of the bunch. I enjoyed the imagery to the put of you can visualize everything the author is trying to describe. The way the author approaches the poem with such imagery is awesome. What I get out of the poem is that everything is connected in someway or another. She uses the woods, trees, ponds as the metaphor to compare to humans. Where we as humans can always connect in a way, we have a nose, eyes, and ears. She describes this metaphor up through stanza 6 then the poem kind of transitions. From the metaphor feeling the author starts giving advice about life. That even though you can connect with all people, you will always be able to meet that someone that you connect with the most. You will find the person that you love, hold, and let it go. I love how she approaches this poem and with the way she does I am able to understand and enjoy the poem more. Probably the one thing I do not understand about this poem is the reason for the title for the poem. What is significant about the title? I just don't get how it is connected to the whole connection thing going on throughout the whole entire poem. So just with that little misunderstanding I enjoyed reading and understanding the poem and I didn't exactly get death out of this poem just lost.