Poetry blog 1

I normally try to avoid History classes and English classes because of all the assigned readings that I find hard to be interested in. I enjoy reading things that interest me, but I really struggle to read things that I have no interest in. I'm a big fan of poetry, so when I saw this class on the APR under the AEX distribution, I knew it'd be a class that I would like. When you start writing your own poetry, as this class requires, you respect the difficulty of the task that poets have. Writing poetry isn't as easy as people think and now that I've written a few poems myself, I understand that. I hope that we get the chance to watch some video of poetry readings because there are some very talented artists on a show called Def Poetry Jam that I watch a lot of. Watching that inspires me to write my own stuff and the creativity of the poems that those people have is amazing. Many rap artists that I listen to are poets in their own right. They tell their stories through written rhymes that is basically spoken poetry over music. When you combine beautiful sounding instruments with meaningful words, the outcome is something special.