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.
Brad's Comment on What is Going On? and Nineteen Eighty-Four
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32 comments:
Poetry, with a laser-like efficiency, penetrates more deeply into my heart than any other form of literature. I love its unique ability to make me realize that, yes, I feel that way, too. Reading two or three poems a week is a balm for my soul. Without poetry, life would be barren.
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I find poetry in my mother tongue a good way, to express your ideas and to specialize your writing, from lyric or free verse. Poetry is at times, a complicated topic deal 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’ve always been an avid reader, but poetry has never deeply touched my heart and soul. My logical and practical brain looks for facts, plots, and logic in poetry, and cannot find it. Sometimes, I force myself to read poems, but every time I remain of the same mind – poetry isn’t for me.
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Experience with poem:
I have to admit: Even though my fear of writing and recite a poem was kind of over with Brad, I still feel nervous about writing poem. Especially when I have to write a list poem, I still don’t know the structures. I just wish I wrote a blank poem!
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With its sensory images and rhythmic pattern, poetry enriches my life; however, it does not exist in my daily life. I only read a poem when I have time to kill and right into some kind of mood. Poem should be slowly tasted just like drinking my favourite Chinese tea.
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Poetry to me is a rhythmic story full of riddles. It might be a wonderful experience or it could be a sorrowful one, it does not matter because each piece never seizes to captivate my mind. I’m fond of poetry because it exercises my mind to think more, to dig deeper to what’s apparent.
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Poetry was a big part of my youth. I have loved to read the poetry about love and life. Reading poetry brings vivid pictures into my head, and makes me calm and absent-minded (from reality). From time to time, I read my favorite poems all over again, and in those moments of reading, I “lose” myself.
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When I was in high school, I learned that poetry comes in different forms and that it could be found in our everyday life, or what our eyes sees. It’s just the matter perspective, and the way one expresses the feeling or image they get from the object (describing a rose for love).
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I was a child when I discovered nature because of poetry. Later, poetry told me when I fall in love first time. It aroused my feelings and my body. Nowadays, it is the lust keeping me as passionate human being. It is freedom, the soul state, pure emotion beyond mind.
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Poetry is an art of sketching images by using words. A poem is like a painting with varieties of colors, sizes and shapes. We can create variation of heavy strokes or quick soft touches with beautiful and expressive words like a person sliding his paintbrush on a white canvas.
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I’ve read lots of poetries since I was young, but they are all in Chinese. Beside, most of them are ancient Chinese poetries, which are quite different from modern poetries, as well as English poetries. For me, the most familiar lines of English poetries are: If winter comes, can spring be far behind? (----53 words)
Poetry describes the feelings that come from the connection between the heart and the mind of a poet. Understanding poetry means penetration in the poet’s feeling. I have never experienced to write a poem in my mother language. My first experience to write a poem was in the Communication Twelve course. That was a good start. (55 words)
I liked poetry very much when I was younger and also wrote my own a long time ago. Poetry for me is like “intricate necklace”- intricate because we need time to unpack its meaning and beautiful because its powerful language which says more than ordinary one.
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Poetry develops feelings and images of what you have done throughout your life. Poems are sensual yet powerful. If you are lucky as a reader, you will encounter the perfect poem that touches your sense of smell, sight, sound, taste and touch. As a writer poetry requires imagination and tremendous creativity.
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I like poetry, there might be because I was born in the city which is known as the “City of Poetry and Love.” When I’m reading a nice poem, usually in my language, it takes me to a different unexplained way of feeling and thinking; that’s why I like poetry. (50 words)
I have always loved poetry in my mother tongue. It was always easy for me to express my feeling of sadness, joyful or anger in artistic and beautiful way. Poetry gives me freedom to write about what is on my mind in a creative and unique way at any given time.
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I love to read poems but when it comes to me writing one, I always end up having a tough time with it and sometimes I wonder if it’s the fear inside me that’s afraid of sounding stupid and embarrassing myself when sharing it with people.
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I have to honestly say that I never minded writing poetry. When I think of poem it’s like having the opportunity to bring my thoughts to life. Even though, sometimes I feel like writing a poem is a challenge; I think poetry for me is making the connection with my emotions to write freely.
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I disliked poems. “I wandered lonely as a cloud” was one exception because of its deliberate format and rhythm. Then I found Roald Dahl’s comic “The Three Little Pig” amused hugely and it turned me on to poems. Interpreting new poems now brings me more thrill than fear, like adventures. —50 words
Reading poems reminds me of my youth days. I used to read Farsi poems and admire them a lot. I love classic poems the most. Rumi and Ferdowsy are my main idols, the first one for depicting logic, and rationality, and the other for picturing bravery, and love, in their eternal masterpieces.
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Coming to Canada and going to school here, I have noticed that we do not learn so much poetry, and poems.Now it reminds me of my childhood, how back in my country we read, memorized poems and shared poems with everyone in our class.I personally think that poetry colours the an ordinary
language one speaks.
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Coming to Canada and going to school here, I have noticed that we do not learn so much poetry, and poems.Now it reminds me of my childhood, how back in my country we read, memorized poems and shared poems with everyone in our class.I personally think that poetry colours the an ordinary
language one speaks.
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When crossing Gibraltar on the Mediterranean see,from morocco to Spain,i saw an unforgettable vision in the sky on the east.An aureola of light shined through the sky.It was early in the morning and the sky was still in the last stand of the night.Then a surprise showed off,suddenly the sun appeared like a pure fire ball in the sky and happy I started to smile.There, were poetry in the sky.
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Rules for Poetry from Class
10 TIPS
Write longhand rather than on a computer. This allows for a different “feel” to writing than on screen and allows a dynamic copy to be seen with all its scratching outs and changes.
Do not write while drunk, that is unless you want to be appreciated only by other drunks!
Read lots and lots of poems in order to develop a “feel” for how poems work.
Follow a structure (form) to make it easier to fit your ideas into poetry.
Take time to write; a poem is rarely spontaneous and fully formed.
Ten Tips to Writing a Good Poem
1. Revision is essential to writing a good poem.
2. Use your mind and emotions to write well.
3. Brainstorm, prepare and jot down ideas before you begin writing a poem.
4. Be tremendously creative!
5. Use figurative language.
6. Find the right time to write.
7. Know your topic/subject.
8. Write in a way accessible to others.
9. Offer a different way of looking at things and leave your readers “breathless.” (same as 4)
10. Don’t offend (how can literature not offend?).
11. Don’t say it straight. Bend your message.
12. Try to be clear and understandable.
13. Avoid cliches; no “raining cats and dogs” please.
14. Send a powerful; have a powerful message. (Poems have a theme.)
15. Poems need to have a structure.
16. Sound is an important element of poetry.
17. Use of the senses is important in poetry.
18. Know your audience.
19. Don’t expect that drugs or alcohol will solve the problem of poetry.
I love reading poetry in my language, but not in English. Poetry is a unique language, which express the feeling beautifully. I don’t read poems as much as I was doing in high school because we don’t lean a lot here. When I read a poem in Farsi, it touches my heart and my soul, but when I read one in English, I don’t feel the same way. Words – 65
Poetry is a unique way of writing. But my experience with poetry has not been the best, because it reminds me of the time in my private school were every year we had to write a poem and recite in front of everybody. I always thought I wrote the worst poems.-
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I have always enjoyed reading poems, but I could never write any because I always thought that it had to rhyme. I have recently found out that a poem does not necessarily have to rhyme to be a good poem. If I understand the meanings more I may enjoy writing it too.
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Do i like poetry? I will say "Yes." The reason is that poetry is a unique language that can express our feelings beautifuly. It is important to like poetry to understand it, for example i love "love" poems that is why they are easier for me to understand.Love poems are the most beautifullest and sweetest things that can ever be in this world. It is even sweeter when it is written for you.
Writing Poetry was a very challenging for me since I have wrote only one poem before. At first I didn't have any idea or experience, and to organize my thoughts.. But after I wrote one Poem last semester, it wasn't as I feared. However I wrote better than I expected and it was a good learning experience.
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