Paragraph: "My Experience with Poetry"
Write a 150-word paragraph that refers to your personal experiences with poetry. The experiences do not have to be at school, although they may be if you wish. Be specific please.
Your answers will be read out and discussed at the beginning of class on Wednesday, October 28 so please have your homework done before then.
I will be absent next week. Renuka will be your teacher. She will provide me with an overall mark based on your participation in the two classes.
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I started off disliking school poetry, but, despite the early negatives, my life since then has been filled with poetry. High school textbooks were full of obscure stuff I didn’t really understand very well and my teachers taught it as little as possible. That didn’t stop me from writing poems, however, as young men often do. Later on, in college, I belonged to a creative writing club and began to love poetry more; we invited local poets to our apartments, drank wine, read our work together. Poetry began to seem real. In the 90s, I wrote a number of poems and soon became involved in an early days workshop on the internet. The poets there (some well established and published) took my work seriously and their critiques taught me what is important to know. Now, I own more than 20 volumes of poetry and very much love to teach it every term.
Poetry has not been big part of my life, but it has given me moments of tears and joy through poetic songs, poetic quotes and some poems as well. I have listened to poetic lyrics that uplifted my spirit. I have read poetic quotes that have inspired me. I have read poems that made me pause and think about past and present. The poem, ‘The road not taken by Robert frost’ is one of my favorite poems. It takes me back the roads that I have travelled in my life. I love creative terms authors use in poetry. Sometimes I walk around school walls and I find some poems or inspirational quotes. I pause and read what they mean. We live in an overused advertising culture. If we only have more poems instead of billboards full of advertisings, we would be a little wiser, inspired and happier in life. (150 words)
Poetry and I have had a pretty good relationship over the years i have been studying it. I don't really read too much poetry or write, but i was good at high school poetry. I was good at doing things like taking a poem sentence by sentence and analyzing it. Picking out which phrases are simile's and which ones are metaphors. Other than that I never really cared for poetry that much. I don't really have a favorite poem I just think every poem is just another poem. The only type of poetry I could say I enjoyed was poems that told a story. (120 Words)
I am not a poet, nor can write a poem. However, I do enjoy reading and listening to almost all kinds of poetry. Presently my favorite poem is Gazal. Perhaps you are aware that this form of poetry is popular in the Persian, Urdu, and Arabic literature? I initially became interested in poetry during the time my uncle (who loved to read) explained patiently his poems to me. Shortly thereafter I was able to comprehend such poems. He gave me two poetry books, one Hafez Divan and the other Maulana Jalaludin Balki. As a result I read through them and thoroughly enjoyed the books - sometimes alone and sometimes with him. I loved to read my uncle’s poems since they were easier to understand and they possessed very strong meaning mostly about love and loss. Additionally, several of the poems were extremely heartbreaking and as a result - I couldn’t get to the end. At the moment I am looking forward to learn my teacher’s poems...(166 words)
Recalling my experience with poetry is memorable. When I was almost six years old, I threw a piece of bacon away after supper. My mother picked it up and holing my hands, she said, “Qin, I will read a poem to you.” While she was reading the “Sympathy for the Peasants,” by Li Shen, who is a famous poet from China’s Tang Dynasty, I shook my head and murmured, “It is too difficult.” She patiently explained to me, “The poem means that we should respect the farmers’ hard work and save our food.” Afterward, the poem, in my mind, uses some esoteric words and weird sentences to express a profound meaning. In high-school, I studied some Chinese Tang Dynasty’s poems by Li Bai. They are wonderful; however, I wandered in these poetic stanzas, and I was captured by their rhythm. So, the poetry will always remain a mystery to me.
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My experience of poetry
I like reading a story or novel and love to see the movie since the early stage in my secondary school until now, but I have no experience concerning poetry. I have never been any kind of desire to write a poem. Perhaps my character is not suitable with liberal arts rather than science. For example, Dr. Zhivago is a doctor but he wrote poem in the midst of severe First World War and brutal communist revolution of Russia in the novel of Pastemak, Russia.
I feel the sunset of Vancouver is very beautiful when I ride a chair to the top of Mt. Strachan for ski or sunset view at the balcony of chalet, Grouse Mountain. Last year I went two times to Grouse Mountain to write a poem of homework. It is my first poem I have written in my life.
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I majored in Chinese literature at university, and read as many poems as I could for years – to fulfill the course requirements at beginning, then for my own pleasure. What I learned from the readings were that unlike a documentary account, which records a true story in the real life, a poem suggests a vision from an imaginary world, and cannot be translated into another language without losing a large part of its presence and spirit. Poetry may be the shortest form of literature, but it represents the quintessence of a nation’s language, culture and history. By elegantly expressing the emotions, such as indignation, affection, and aspiration, which belong to all human beings and exist everywhere anytime, a poem and the poet becomes immortal. I am eager to learn Canadian poetry; however, I am afraid that I can never write a poem in a language other than my mother tongue.
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I didn't like poetry when I was in secondary school.However, as I reached high school poem and poetry were common as any other chapters. Hence I obliged to study hard for exam and became familiar with it.I write poems some times to practice songs in my own laguage.Reading the poetry gives me happines because of its theme and message.In the other had, here in Canada, as I started up grading English,I have been learning poetry which is the same with illustration with the way I learnt ,but,different language.moreover,my plan towards the poetry is vast and I will going to established my own poems and make a song of praise for future, because, I love poems which has direct relationship with real life.
Poetry, the one thing I dreaded the most, till the day my poem was published in a youth anthropology – that was in grade 7. As I entered high school, poetry was taught in a very vague way. I believe this was because everyone hated poetry, it was such a boring topic in the curriculum, which left most of us cutting class. Teachers simply taught us to “take out the simile” or “find the rhyme”, till I hit senior year. My teacher had changed it up, allowing me to have my grade 7 thoughts on poetry back. .
I find poetry a good way to express your ideas and to specialize your writing, from lyric or free verse. Poetry is at times, a complicated topic dealt within a few words or lines, but allows you to look at it in many ways and interpret those words and lines.
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I remember the very first day I actually enjoyed poetry. It was Christmas, my friend gave me a card where she wrote an E. e Cummings’ poem. “I carry your heart with me,” read the first line. It was a poem about love. From that day on, I started reading poetry whenever I can. Some poems still lingers in my head, as if telling me that I should re-read them, like Kahlil Gibran’s “In The City Of The Dead”, Charles Bukowski’s “A Laughing Heart”, and E. e Cumming’s “Nobody Loses All The Time”. I also read poems by Filipino poets such as Emanuel Lacaba, and by Sufis such as Rumi. The most resent poem I’ve heard, was a very emotional poem called “Empress” by Rupert Estanislao, in a “Poetry Slam” on “You Tube”. There is something about poetry that attracts me, I am not sure what it is, but it definitely makes me happy.
I never read poetry myself. I think it needs too much energy and passion. All my experience about poetry was in school.
I started to learn many poems since primary grades in elementary school back in China. Most classic poems I learned were from ancient Chinese. We had to study historical backgrounds, the explanations, and also were requested to read aloud and recite. Until high school, I had learned dozens of poems and never was requested to write my own.
When I started to learn English, I never saw myself reading poems in English. Through studying in the Pearson Learning Centre, from Communications 12 to English 11, I got to know some poems and I even had experience in writing some simple English poetry myself.
Although I still feel that reading between the lines is difficult, I have to deal with poetry anyway, because it is a part of English.
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Poetry has never really been something that I enjoyed in school, maybe it was the poetry that was given I don’t know? However I love music and really like listening to the lyrics, so I guess that‘s poetry in its self. I was never kin on writing it because I was never good at rhyming or making a poem really work. Reading a poem is having an open mind I guess, because they never really mean what you read, they mean more; you just really got to get into the meaning and the understanding of the poetry. I enjoy poetry when I read and understand the meaning of the poet s writing or what they tried to get across. I love poetry that I can relate to in a day to day bases , and something short that really gets the true meaning across.
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I was born and brought up in India and poetry has been always a part of my life since childhood. Indian culture is full of poems. A few of the world’s oldest scriptures available to us now, were written in poetic form in the oldest known language – Sanskrit. It leads to an age-old tradition of teaching the languages to Indian children through poems, and songs. Therefore, I started to like poetry, even before I went to school, but it was mostly Punjabi and Hindi poetry, not the English poetry. In school, I studied English poetry as a 10 – 15% part of English curriculum. Two school time poems “Humpty Dumpty” (of Grade 1) and “Woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep” (of Grade 10), I still remember. I have written about a dozen Punjabi poems in my college days, but never tried to write an English poem. (158 words)
I first encountered poetry when I was in elementary school in China. We were required to recite the poetry from the ancient poet. Since the language which was used few thousands years ago is different from the modern Chinese language, I had a hard time to translate and remember them. After I studied English poetry, I found the vocabulary is easier to understand. Poetry is just like a song with rhythm. Poetry requires imagination from the reader to explore the meaning between the lines. Since each person’s experience is different, they interpret the implication differently. My high school friend used to copy sentences from poetry to write the love letters to his girlfriend, and I though that was very cool. I still never liked to read or write poetry, and I found it too abstract. For me, I prefer something more straightforward.
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Poetry has never been my favorite, though, I have always respected those who understand and write poetry. My first introduction to poetry was in high school, and I remember never paying any attention to the teacher in class. Though, I do have a good reason for that. I had read some simple poems on my own before the introduction of it in the class and never seem to understand it. The languages used were too symbolic. Since then it has been a struggle for me. I believe the reason why I struggle with poetry is because it isn’t straightforward enough for me. I have no patience for silly made up stuff that had no basis in real life. It’s too bad that I still have to learn poetry in this class. I will pay more than usual attention—hopefully my attention this time will pay off.
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Poetry has been part of my life since I remember. I was three years old, and there I was reciting a four-stanza poem. Of course, I don’t remember that, my mother told it me. My older sister was a teacher, and she liked to do a small Christmas festival at home every year. We were seven siblings, so she taught us different carols, poems, and dance numbers. I enjoyed reciting the most. During school years, I memorized many poems, and participated in many contests -I never won-but I became familiar with different poets. I was teenager when a radio station began to play a special poem for me, every day at the same time. It gave advices about how to have better life, “Desiderata” (was the name of the poem). I still remember it, and I apply some of the advices to my actual life. Poetry has been, and it is an important part of my life and memories.
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Before I came to Canada, I learned lots of Chinese ancient poetries in China. I really love poem because it can give me strong feeling. I like poetical rhythm, theme, and tone. Poem separate different parts: didactic poetry, reflective poetry, lyric poetry, and satirical poetry. They use polished language to express a state of mind or a powerful emotion in the audience. But I came to Canada, and I studied in high school. I touched some poetries; I felt confusing. I think these are English poems, so they are difficult to learn for me. This year, I found poetry interesting over again in summer. I studied English 11, and I can understand poems. My teacher, Zama was a kind woman. Especially, she asked everybody separates role to read different poems. Then, she explained every poetical meaning and these poems express emotion and evoke powerful mood toward the audience. I love these poems again.
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My experiences with poetry aren’t really the greatest. I haven’t learnt enough to be able to utilize it in any of the correct formats but I do enjoy reading some whenever the opportunity presents itself. I miss when they used to put up poems on the buses, I thought it was ingenious it gave you something to stare at rather than the person across from you. I don’t know if Shakespeare’s plays would count, I believe so, but I went through a couple in high school, even though they were ridiculously confusing I still enjoyed his plays and sonnets. Most of the time the poetry sections were rushed and vague, some teachers just assumed that you understood all the lessons of poetry, but apart from listening to music I don’t involve myself in poetry. But hey who knows, maybe if the poetry section goes well, I can start my rap career and never look back.
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I read and analyzed a lot of poems when I was in high school and summer school, but I didn’t really enjoy most of the poems. Most of the poems were boring or hard to understand. Maybe because English is not my first language, poetry seemed liked another foreign language to me, but I enjoyed reading some poems that were short and easy. I remember reading a poem called, “The Road Not Taken,” I really liked this poem because it had a deep meaning and was inspiring for me. One thing I really hate about poetry is that there are a lot of literary devices to memorize. Although I remember most of the literary devices, still they are confusing. If we are going to work on poetry in this course, I hope I could become more affectionate towards poetry.
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My "experience" with poetry started very early. When I was younger and still couldn't read, I was often being read to some kiddy poems by my parents. Later, in elementary school, reading and writing our own poems was something that was given for homework. It was also a trend to write a short poems in a friend's diary. Once, I also had to memorize some long and boring poem for a reciting competition which ended only with a honorable mention. Middle school and high school weren't much different; reading, analyzing, reciting to the point where I was fed up with it. I never really enjoyed poetry and so that's why all my experience was from school.
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My first experience from writing poetry was relief of releasing my inner emotions that I could not tell anyone about missing a good friend of mine. My friend was a geologist and we were working in the same company but different positions for a while. He was away from town for more than three months. When I had chosen as a presenter of a conference, celebration of Geologist Day, I released my impression by using many metaphor and similes in a poem and read it through the meeting to present his hard work and achievement. “You are in wild for a while, in light in dark, in depth in shallow, your hands blisters are pearl, and the minerals built the colourful world”. The poem was more effective than being standard or in correct formats. However, it was published in (Geology Magazine) of the month and was rewarded through the company. 153 words
Whenever I come across a word, “poetry”, it sounds foreign to me. To be frank, I haven’t dared to write a poem on my own unless I have to. However, reading a poem is different than writing it. Psalms in the Bible are one of my favorite books and they are written in poetic form. Reading Psalms takes more time and concentration than narratives; however, I find joy unpacking the puzzles. From some of the chapters (poems), I often see myself like seeing myself in a mirror and appreciate the writers’ labour as if they wrote my biography without hearing my life story (thoughts). Besides Psalms, I like Wislawa Szymborska‘s poems from our English class; somehow, her poems speak to me friendly and make me to nod every time I read. I think poetry has great power to communicate with our inmost being, and thus it touches our emotions. Yet, I’m still painfully shy about writing a poem. (158 words)
Every English 12 class was a kind of challenge to overcome for me. From the beginning, when reading the “Child, Dead, in the Rose Garden”, I had no space to write annotation because all the space were filled with the meaning of not familiar words. Brad told us average 5 unknown words in each page is normal but I needed to inquire to the dictionary 15 to 25 words in each page and the story was 14 page long. Instead, the fiction of “A spoiled man” was 19 pages long but there was no serious word problem to me.
“A Note” by Wislawa Szymborska was another challenge for me. From this study I recognized that poem was one of the important genre in literature. 21 students wrote poem by same number of words and structure as Szymborska’s but had different style and different feeling. Some poem seemed better than others in understanding and impression. Highly comprehensive and restricted by rhythm, poem had its own advantage to express and communicate some thinking.
The most puzzling to me was that why there was no short stories or poems written by Canadian author. It will help me to understand Canada more.
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