Post for Last Thursday

Ok… So I know this blog is late… I just remembered I forgot to do it last week when I was reading through the outline for this week’s blog assignment. I really need to write this on my calendar because I know I’ve forgotten a couple times and had to write late ones after the fact… Anyway… For my blog post today I definitely wanted to discuss how I think learning about what makes a poem enjoyable to read and the generosity of the author has been very interesting so far. I never thought about either one of those aspects until we began talking about it in class and I definitely was given a new perspective as to the different ways a poet can write his/her poems in order to create a certain feeling for the reader and keep them entertained. It also really made me think back to Christian Bok’s presentation in class about what makes a good poem better. I thought it really spoke to how using certain nouns and verbs can really change the way a reader experiences your poem, because poetry should be an experience, not just something you read and forget about. The best poetry is the kind that keeps coming back to you, even after you’ve read it and it makes you want to read it again to further explore it’s meaning. Now speaking about finding the meaning in poems, I loved the discussion we had in class about not always having to pick apart poems to “beat” the meaning out of it. There’s something very intriguing to me about poems that leave one questioning – Poetry, in my opinion, is more about the questions than the solutions. The process in which you reach those possible solutions is something that can be very powerful and overall it makes that process more influential than the answer to the question asked in the first place. I definitely would like to work on maybe writing some poems that do just that.