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Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Group Three (Hao, Zarghoona, Inaya, Olivia, Jenna) Answers on Poetry
Put your answers as comments to this post. Please complete before class begins on Friday.
Group 3 1. definition of poetry. Poetry is a style of writing using literary techniques to express deep emotion and point of view with rich meaning words.
personification, as one of the elements of poetry, is making a non living thing alive and giving it human qualities or giving human qualities to plants and animals “The sky was crying ” or “The moon smiles. Fires rage.”
Hyperbole is exaggeration of reality, making things more noticeable, “She is eating tons of toffees”
Why is poetry written? Poetry is written to grab the reader attention to something has been forgotten for years.Also people like the musical sound of poetry, so it can enter the mind and heart easly. In addition, poetry is easy to memorize ,and it stays memorised for a long time.
What is its purpose?
The purpose to write poetry is entertaining, patroitism, communicate cultures, human histories and finding the soul.
One of the important purposes of poetry is the culture inheritance. In China, kids are taught poems by their parents at home even when they don’t learn the words yet at the age of 5 or 6 years old. These poems are the collection written by the well-known Chinese ancient poets and represent the value of historical cultures. The kids memorize them without comprehension. But as the children grow up, they will understand more and more what the poems really mean.
A special quality poetry has is it can express a much deeper meaning and be more thought provoking for the reader as compared to reading a short story. Another quality is that poetry can often be easier to memorize due to the rhyme and beats that poems sometimes have.
Regret By Jinwei Hao I prefer the melody. I prefer the butterfly. I prefer the footprints along the mountain Alpine. I prefer Beethoven to Macheal Jackson. I prefer myself curing people’s soul to myself hurting others’ build. I prefer keeping a dictionary on hand , just in case. I prefer the color blue. I prefer not to leave that homesickness won’t be following with. I prefer creations. I prefer to graduate early. I prefer talking to the principal about something else. I prefer to mute. I prefer the absurdity of speaking others’ lauguage to the ridicule of not speaking my own one. I prefer, where love's concerned, the new-born babies that can be celebrated every day. I prefer pastors who promise me nothing but heaven. I prefer the peace. I prefer laughing. I prefer bombed to bombing Powers. I prefer having some rights. I prefer having some obligations. I prefer the hell of angels to the hell of evils. I prefer the soil without seeds to seeds without the soil. I prefer thoughtful calmness to thoughtless chaoes. I prefer my dark eyes, which I am using to search for the brightness at night. I prefer what I haven’t learned to what I have known. I prefer not to ask for perfection. Life is filled with even the regrets that dream has its own wishes.
Group 3
ReplyDelete1. definition of poetry.
Poetry is a style of writing using literary techniques to express deep emotion and point of view with rich meaning words.
Q #3 Examples of special techniques of poetry
ReplyDeletepersonification, as one of the elements of poetry, is making a non living thing alive and giving it human qualities or giving human qualities to plants and animals “The sky was crying ” or “The moon smiles. Fires rage.”
Hyperbole is exaggeration of reality, making things more noticeable, “She is eating tons of toffees”
Why is poetry written?
ReplyDeletePoetry is written to grab the reader attention to something has been forgotten for years.Also people like the musical sound of poetry, so it can enter the mind and heart easly. In addition, poetry is easy to memorize ,and it stays memorised for a long time.
What is its purpose?
The purpose to write poetry is entertaining, patroitism, communicate cultures, human histories and finding the soul.
One of the important purposes of poetry is the culture inheritance. In China, kids are taught poems by their parents at home even when they don’t learn the words yet at the age of 5 or 6 years old. These poems are the collection written by the well-known Chinese ancient poets and represent the value of historical cultures. The kids memorize them without comprehension. But as the children grow up, they will understand more and more what the poems really mean.
ReplyDeleteA special quality poetry has is it can express a much deeper meaning and be more thought provoking for the reader as compared to reading a short story. Another quality is that poetry can often be easier to memorize due to the rhyme and beats that poems sometimes have.
ReplyDeleteRegret
ReplyDeleteBy Jinwei Hao
I prefer the melody.
I prefer the butterfly.
I prefer the footprints along the mountain Alpine.
I prefer Beethoven to Macheal Jackson.
I prefer myself curing people’s soul
to myself hurting others’ build.
I prefer keeping a dictionary on hand , just in case.
I prefer the color blue.
I prefer not to leave
that homesickness won’t be following with.
I prefer creations.
I prefer to graduate early.
I prefer talking to the principal about something else.
I prefer to mute.
I prefer the absurdity of speaking others’ lauguage
to the ridicule of not speaking my own one.
I prefer, where love's concerned, the new-born babies
that can be celebrated every day.
I prefer pastors
who promise me nothing but heaven.
I prefer the peace.
I prefer laughing.
I prefer bombed to bombing Powers.
I prefer having some rights.
I prefer having some obligations.
I prefer the hell of angels to the hell of evils.
I prefer the soil without seeds to seeds without the soil.
I prefer thoughtful calmness to thoughtless chaoes.
I prefer my dark eyes,
which I am using to search for the brightness at night.
I prefer what I haven’t learned
to what I have known.
I prefer not to ask for perfection.
Life is filled with even the regrets
that dream has its own wishes.