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. Bring your printed work to class along with a printed copy of your chosen poem.
To help you find a poem, here are three online sources of quality poetry. Remember that you will need to defend the poem's quality in group work that day, so be sure to choose well.
Poems at Slate.com (each poem is read by the poet; a good way to decide if you like the way it sounds)
Canadian Poetry Online (from the University of Toronto library; a list of poets that links to poems from each one)
Poetry Daily Archive (alphabetical archive of poems by title; here you can look for an interesting title and see if you can find a poem you like)
Poetry enriches my life. I assign my students to write poetry in order to understand it better. The result? Students often refer to writing a poem as the highlight of their semester. Their words provide a glimpse into the heart of what really matters in life. Poetry can do that!
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What a brilliant, wise, and precise words! Poetry illustrates all the worlds. It brings me up a feeling, memories, or even something that I haven’t known, but I can see, and I am touched. Then, it reminds me of what a life is like. Poetry can gives me a rest.
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The only poetry I can remember doing is in this class. The “Here I Am”
ReplyDeletepoem we did was a real eye-opener for me. I enjoyed writing that poem
because I could tell people about myself without giving too many
details. It’s one poem I will keep for a long time and redo every now
and then.
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With all of the words we can use, poetry (like songs) really express in a type of way that both makes someone spark their own imagination, as well as getting the gears in someones head to think. Also, the way you express is worth the effort to inspire another's thoughts.
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Poetry is imaginative, musical, with precisely selected words, and deepens life’s meaning. I enjoy reading poems. Poetry helps me to imagine the intangibles and have hope in love. I read a poem several times to better understand its literal and figurative meaning. I resort to the beautiful organization and melodious rhythm of poetry when I feel down.
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ReplyDeletePoetry is the medium of unexpected experiences that move you, just like the day I saw the roaring sun suddenly coming out of the eastern sky, between the Gibraltar’s Rocks, on the Mediterranean Sea. Poetry is the perfect way to experience beauty by any means known to men.
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ReplyDeleteThe only poem that I like would be “Here I Am” which I wrote. It shows a little bit of myself without too many details. Also the poem was easy and fun to write but sometimes it is hard to read in front of everyone. This was my second time writing this kind of poem.
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Poetry always reminds me of the words such as “romantic”, “beautiful”, and “impressive”. Sometimes there is philosophy in a poem as well. That is why people can remember it for a long time. I still remember “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” from “Ode to the West Wind” which I read twenty years ago.
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My personal experience with poetry started early in life. My mom loved poetry, and I used to hear her recite many poems when I was little. Ever since, I have learned that poems have the capacity to move and to inspire people hearts. Poetry is fascinating and I love it!
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ReplyDeleteWhen I was young, my teachers made us recite a large variety of Chinese poems. I don't think I ever understood the true thoughts and ideas behind those poems. Now that I am older and more mature, whenever I encounter any of the poems from my childhood, I realize I finally understand them.
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Most of the English poems I know were learned in the English classes except one,
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poem and the story behind it touch my heart with the great comfort and peace
from God. I know God carries me too.
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Reading poetry is always heartwarming for me. Poetry boosts the inner feeling of a person and the words represent the writer’s mood of happiness and sadness. Poetry is an art of writing in fewer words with deep impressions. The fancy words in poetry express the reality and sometime imagination.
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THE MEANING BEHIND POETRY
ReplyDeletePoetry is a pattern that I find beautiful in so many ways; you tend to write words that can’t be uttered by tongue but by the heart. Poetry is the definition you transmit it to be through language, visuals, and feelings. However, poetry by language is poetry by words explaining an essential statement. I write to prove myself that I can convey a sensation that everybody can relate to and be affected by because in the end poetry is displayed within us and within everyone surrounding us.
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Every time I read a poem, I don’t just see words with their appearing meanings. When they are combined, those sentences have magic. They bring me to different circumstances with different moods in different generations. Poetry acts like teachers who teach me with fascinating literary about meaningful insights which may change my values of life.
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Poetry is artistically rendering words in such a way as to evoke intense emotion. It’s short and enriched with meanings. My first poetry writing was in English 11 (Here I Am). I couldn’t believe that I could write poetry, but I did in Brad’s class. Nothing is impossible if we try our best.
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For me, poetry is a language of expressions. It represents human emotions through words and evokes a strong feeling of sadness, or happiness to the reader. I enjoy reading poetry if I understand insights of the poem. However, it is a form of thoughts that may never be spoken, but it can be imagined by the reader.
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Poetry, often riddled with long unused terms, makes one think and really delve into the meaning and essence of it. It provides insight into the author’s view of the world, and puts their vision of life in motion. Authors like William Wordsworth truly make you feel their world in a melodic rhyme.
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My experience with poetry has been changed in a good way through a book poem written by Mrs. Young Kim whose poems were created from her personal journals. Her poems inspired me in deep. Also her poems helped me to be humbled touching my heart and think of meaning of life.
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ReplyDeletePoem is the smartest form of literature as I think. It has a lot of meaning in a short line. It like a compressed story with constricted meaningful words that had been chosen carefully by the poet. It could be romantical, educational, historical, and religious or any other subject there.
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