Friday, January 11, 2008

my definition of a poem week 1

generalizations of poems I've read.
They usually have a rhythm, and a certain flow about them. The older i get the more complex they get no more 1 fish 2 fish red fish blue fish. also the older i get he don't really rhyme any more which might i add is a bummer because i happen to by a person who appreciates a nice rhyme once in a while. When someone says poet i think of Emily Dickinson and Shel silverstein. that giving tree book when i was little i just thought it was cool that tree could do that stuff. i read a lot of dark poems in English 2 if my memory serves me right. They usual were related to death and despair or some sort twisted story. example Edgar Allan Poe when he wrote the poem(i think) about the guy who ripped his girlfriends teeth out and buried her alive i think it's call Berenice , bernice,bernadice . i don't know that was strange. poems usually have some type of reflection at the end a realization. lots of comparisons are in poems . like feeling s to weather.

1 comment:

Laura said...

Your right as life gets more complicated it seem the peoms and stories we read become more complicated too. I think it is because it reflects how our lives change from fun and uncarring to having to make big desions in the blink of an eye that could change a person's life for the good or the bad. But at the same time peoms have the ability to speak to us and show us a way out or that maybe our world is not that bad.