It has been interesting last week and this current week talking about certain poems that contain untruthful or unfamiliar aspects to the reader. A lot of the different poems that we read either made the readers become familiar with something that might be completely foreign or to make a common everyday object seem unfamiliar. A poem that really made readers take a different outlook on the content within it was the poem Hair. Even though hair is something that everyone knows about, this poem is able to unfamiliarize us with it because in the story hair is used in a different way. By the characters in the poem hiding escaped prisoners inside their hair, it made me much more intrigued and involved in the story because it wasn’t something I was used to. The language of the poem was very simple but this one aspect of the poem made me think a lot more about it and want to discuss it more. The exercise we did on Tuesday also helped with this because I found that a lot of people were more interested with the untruthful story out of the two we shared. Hopefully in future poems, I can try and create ways to make a certain everyday object unfamiliar to the reader.
No comments:
Post a Comment