My Experience with Poetry
Write a 50-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.
We will discuss your comments at the beginning of Wednesday's class.
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I read two or three poems weekly and own more than 20 volumes of poetry. Often, poems speak more directly to my heart than stories do. I’ve written some good poems and encourage students by showing them good, modern poems and having them write one each term.
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Slovak rhymes were part of my childhood; mum read them to me until I could manage it myself. I love their musical aspect and imaginative language. As I experienced, poetry steers deeper emotions speaking directly to heart. English poems are a new world which I am in process of discovering.
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I like poems that are distinct in style, without it being too complex.
I like a poem that puts my mind at ease and creates an image in my head;
Ones that leave goose bumps, and ones ill memorize forever.
Poems express feelings in a rythmic way.I read music poems,because music is one of the way I express myself.Eventhough I don't enjoy writing poems ,I read love poem when I was an adult.I would like them to be short,clear, and full of important masages that clicks my mind.
Poems are strong and emotional words that touch your heart. You can feel everything clearly, Sometimes when I read a poem it takes me to my dream world. When i was little my mommy sang a poem for me and I was the one who was acting out the poem. I know I am old and I miss that moment of life.
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I don’t have much experience with traditional poetry; however, I do enjoy song lyrics. I can remember a time buying new music CDs and being disappointed that the lyrics were not printed inside. Now days I can find the words to practically any song I want on the internet. I really enjoy the more poetic style of songwriters like Gordon Downie (The Tragically Hip) Bob Dylan and, of course, Jim Morrison.
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Poems are all about love and inspiration. Whenever I read poems, it touches me. I'm not a good poet but I can write. I write poem like music with rhythms and beats. A famous poem (part of it) I like is "roses are red, violets are blue."
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The word, “poetry” makes me all sweaty and shivery, not because I’m excited, or thrilled. I’m sweaty because whenever I think about “poetry,” I immediately think about Shakespeare’s long and hard poetry. Yes, you guessed it, “Sonnet 14 or 13,”—I don’t quite remember that, but when I first met him, it was in high school. The assignment was we all had to read it and analyze it before the next class. But when I tried to read it, it was all gibberish to me, and I still don’t get the meanings until now. The funniest thing or saddest thing—it all depends how you look at it—is that they’re still using it. I think the English teachers are just love to torture us. (Sorry, Brad.)
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My experience with poems is “OK.” I would never imagine that I can write a poem until taking English 11. When I wrote a list poem titled “I prefer”, I noticed that this style is easier to memorize since it tells a story from beginning to end.
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Not until my junior year in college did I start to feel the magic of Shakespeare’s and William Wordsworth’s poetry while taking the course of “English Literature” in China. I’m attracted by poems which convey experiences, ideas, or emotions in short lines in a vivid, beautiful and imaginative style, characterized by the use of condensed sounds and rhyme patterns. It’s a pleasure to read poems but pretty hard to write a poem!
The first person that came into my mind when I saw the word poetry is Libai, who is such a famous poet from Tang Dynasty that almost everyone in China can recite one of his poems, young or old. To me, poems are composed by some specially talented people and to be enjoyed by poem lovers. I hope we will be reading poems rather than writing.
Poetry is all about imagination. A Japanese traditional poem contains seventeen words so I had to use my imagination a lot to digest it. I like reading poems because they allow my imagination to run free, and I am always amazed people can have the same imagination simultaneously.
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Poetry was never too appealing to me throughout my high school years. The thought of Shakespeare and Wordsworth give me a sudden chill. Rhyming was never my forte and I believed I lacked a certain kind of creativeness toward poetry. Although that is the case I would very much like to improve in poetry.
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I have had a great difficulty to analyze and memorize poems.
However, I gained confidence and enjoyed writing my own poem during the last semester in English 11.
Writing a poem wasn`t too hard when I put my own words into a certain structure which included necessary elements of poetry.
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I am not really into poetry, but I do enjoy some poetry like romantic poems and song lyrics. In my English 10 I wrote my first poem in English. After writing that poem I was proud of myself. Also if I like the poem/song lyric I usually memorize it.
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Poem is a magic. I remember when I recited a poem when I was in my second grade; I forgot to say a line that I almost cried for humility. To defend my self I created my own words that rhymed from my previous lines even if it’s irrelevant to the topic. And I was able to calm down. And that’s the power of poetry.
I see poetry as a way to express yourself and your perspective through a series of lines that goes in a rhythm (but sometimes it doesn't go in rhythms). The first time I learned about poetry and the different styles of it, is back when I was in high school, and I remember clearly that I failed the whole poetry section of the class. I hope I don’t bomb this one as well.
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Poetry is something I enjoy reading, as long as it is not my own. I guess if i had to choose a favourite style of poem, it would be one with rhythmic flow, where the meaning can be interpreted in many different ways. In the rare occasion that i do write a poem, the experience is a therapeutic outlet of what I am feeling, hidden away in my journal for only my eyes.
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My feeling about poetry would have to be mutual. Some poems I enjoy and some I don't. Recently I read a poem called Lucy Grey, and at first I didn't understand what it was about. I had to look into the dictionary to define some of the words the poet used. Once I read the poem a few times I understood it. The poem turned out to be a tragic story. So I guess what I'm trying to say is that poems are enjoyable but it takes time to understand them.
I love Chinese ancient poems, which were written under extremely restrictive forms, but the poets’ creativity didn’t get influenced. I wonder why the modern poets in China always write similar and boring poems. English poetry is a brand-new subject; I hardly try to figure out if there is a deeper meaning because maybe the poet didn’t think that much either. (60 words)
Poems are about imaginations and tickling our emotions by grasping the meaning behind the words, and taking a journey between lines. Not abusing them by memorizing two to three stanzas of twenty-five of Arabic’s poems in order to graduate in high school, but it’s to deliver special feelings and peace through peaceful images to many generations of readers. I hate poems for memorizing reasons, but I love them to travel by diving, writing, reading, and taking my brain to anywhere that is hidden behind words with no stopping.
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