Poetry. Some hate it but I have a slight weakness for it. I am a bit of a closet romantic so of course I love poetry. When I was younger my Mom always read poetry to my brother and I so I have grown up with an appreciation for words on a page. My Mom read us Robert Frost's The Road Less Travelled. You know "two roads diverged in a yellow and I, I took the road less travelled by, and that has made all the difference"? I love this poem and many others like The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe and The Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll and anything by the classic Dr Seuss. In addition to loving traditional poetry I also love how poems can easily be converted into songs. Many of Taylor Swift's award winning tunes are love and heartbreak poems put to music. The emotions poured out into poems are the same as the emotions used to write a song. I think the reason I like poetry so much is because of my love of music. I also enjoy nature poetry. I like the way a writer can capture a fall day in to a few sentences. After they write it, the magic moment is captured forever and there is something wonderful about that. So overall I do enjoy poetry of all kinds :)
After reading these poems I noticed that the writer does a great job of using out of the ordinary describing words. In stead of saying "a serpent splitting the air" she adds the idea of a large amount of effort by writing "a serpent muscling air apart". She plays on the idea of the bats being a sheer force and fighting the sky for entry. I really liked her use of descriptive words in the poems.
A question I would ask is "how long does it take you to write a typical poem?" Some people think that you can slap something down on paper and that is your final product but I firmly believe in editing and re-editing work before it can be complete. I just want to her her opinion on the topic.
I am very excited for this unit to begin and I can't wait to start writing poetry!
Ta ta class!!! Off to edit my short story :P
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