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.

The Halo That Would Not Light (Poetry Response 5)

This poem I would have to say is very depressing, not really a suprise, but also very good. I like the way the author makes everything so visual, and I love it. The whole entire poem I think is a metaphor for something. The title being that the halo would not light, and the poem being about death or sadness where there really is not light, or they cannot see the light. This poem was probably the best poem in our packet and I am really excited to present this to the class. I have a feeling this poem is about some type of abuse. First you have the raptor who is like the monstor who is unleashes upon them, and you know that he is not going to do any good. Then the author talks about the child and the raptor coming after that said child. These are just my thoughts on the poem, I do not quite understand the whole thing quite yet, but I think that the more I read and think about it the more I will begin to understand the poem. The way the author uses so many visual pieces that you can connect to is just awesome, and can't wait for what the class has to say about the poem.

Beginning Again bb Franz Wright (Poetry Response 4)

When reading the poem "Beginning Again", I could not quite understand what the author is getting at with the poem. I thought the poem was about beginning, but that is not the vibe I got from the poem, I actually don't know what vibe I got, but it wasn't beginning. Even though I did fully quite understand the poem, I do believe that the poet was trying to say something very meaningful, like most poets do... :) Even though I do not quite understand the poem I do kind of like it. The words and style of writing he uses is very interesting. Me favorite line throughout the poem is the whole entire first stanza. I think what the first stanza is trying to say is that the man does not have an illness, but is maybe annoyed with the world and sick of all the talking, and if he didn't talk there would be nothing to worry about. And what I think about when he mentions the man performing brain surgery is just the man thinking, thinking, and over thinking things. Picking and proding at certain things mentally, not literally performing brain surgery. Other than the first stanza the rest of the poem does not really make since. I just don't think that th poem flows really well together, I am probably incorrect but it seems like after the first stanza he starts talking about a totally different thing than in the first stanza. I like this poem, I just don;t know how to interpret the poem and can't wait to hear other peoples thought on the peom in class when presented.