Poem 2

We Wear the Mask by Paul Luarence Dunbar

This poem was interesting to me. I read it through about 7 times, and thought about it. I really think the meaning of this poem is how people hide their emotions, everyone goes around acting happy but a lot of people inside are sad or angry. Especially he illistrates this to me in the line, "With torn and bleeding hearts we smile," I think this is so true, many people don't express the way they truly feel, and in many ways conveys that people are fake. We walk around with fake people acting happy and as if life is wonderful, not all people are like this but a lot. Though, it is not common for people to go around sharing their feeling to random strangers, but still this happens everyday, almost everyone is hiding an emotion. Thus, "We wear the mask!"

Poem Blog 1

I read, To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet

I really like this poem because she so much expresses her love and how grateful she is to her husband and how wonderful their love is. It is very beautiful and romantic, I think. In this poem it is easy to see how much she truly loves her husband and how happy she is with him. It is such simple, straighforward poem about her and her husbands love. I really liked reading it, I like romantic things. My favorite line in the poem is the first line. When I was looking for a poem I would like to read and write a blog about, this particular stood out to me and made me want to read it. It says, "If ever two were one, then surely we" this line obviously expresses how much in love they are, and how close they are it is like they are one person. A love like that must be wonderful.

My Poetry Experience

So far, I have not had much experience with poetry. I have never been a big fan of poetry and in high school when poetry was touched on, I didn't pay much attention to it. It never really made sense to me, and I had never been taught how to read poetry. I never knew there was a way to read poetry, and I never knew you had to work at reading it. It really helped to me to appreciate it more because I now knew how much you had to work at poetry. Learning how to read a poem in this unit, definitely made me appreciate poetry more. I still don't care for poetry, but I have more of an appreciation for it now.

How to Read a Poem: Beginner's Manual

This poem is a lot easier for me to understand than most. I like that about this poem, it is nice for me to read because I do understand it. I don't so much like the work that goes into reading poetry. This poem says that poetry can be liked by anyone, no matter how smart you, or who you are. It says to just read poetry, to not be scared, which I also like very much. It says a poem can grow, you make think one thing at first but it grows into something beautiful. It also says that after practicing poetry for awhile, one day the poems will just be understandable. One day you will just be able to read poetry. I really liked this poem.

Poetry by Marianne Moore

This poem was difficult at first to understand, to me that is how most poetry is. Once it is broken down and thought about it is a little easier to see the true meaning of this poem, but that is exactly what this poem is about. It is about understanding poetry and gettin it down to its raw meaning. The quote which says "Imaginary gardens with real toads in them" to me explains poetry perfectly. At first it may seem like the poem is imaginary or not real, but in the end there is a real meaning in the poem somewhere.

How to Read Poetry

I found this reading very interesting. Poetry has always been one of those things that is a little scary for me. I feel like when I read poetry I am afraid of it because I don't understand. It is hard for me to except things I don't understand, so I tend to stay away from poetry. I liked this reading because it reassured me that poetry doesn't always come easy. I like how it gives you steps on how to better understand a poem. The whole reading made me want to learn to read poetry. I can't say that I will like reading after I learn, but I hope that I will like it much better than I do now. I do not want to be afraid of it. I like that face that it tells you to talk to the poem and ask questions about the poem. It talks about the rythm of poetry and how sometimes that can give the poem a whole different meaning, that was interesting to me because I never knew that about poetry. I also like the part where it says that you have to work at poetry. No one has ever told me this before. I never understood that you were supposed to work at it rather that just understanding it like a regular reading of a book or something like that.

Where I Lived, and What I Lived for: Chenel Roosa ENGL 1020

This reading by Thoreau, was a little boring to me. Though some parts I find to be some beautiful writing, so that is mainly what I am going to be talking about. In the first paragraph of this piece, he says "Wherever I sat, there I might live, and the landscape radiated from me accordingly." I really like this because I just think it is very beautifuly written. Also, his decriptions of place in this piece is very good. I really like a lot of his decriptions of where he is or what he is talking about. In paragraph four there is part where he is talking about place he wants to buy and describes some of it, "the gray color and ruinous state of the house and barn, and the dilapidated fences, which put such an interval between me and the last occupant; the hollow lichen-covered apple trees, nawed by rabbits, showing what kind of neighbors i should have." There is sentence that is also on this page, in paragraph eight, "The winds which passed over my dwelling were such as sweep over the ridges of mountains, bearing the broken strains, or celestial parts only, of terrestrial music." He describes things so well. This description, just of the wind is so beautiful. In one sentence he gives a wonderful description of the wind. This shows what a great descriptive writer Thoreau is. In this one chapter from Walden, he gives so many wonderful descriptions.