Sestina

I really like this poem. I think it takes a lot of creativity and brain power to write a sestina. I really like how all of the lines end in the same word and yet none of the lines mean the same thing. I find it really intriguing that someone can come up with so many ways to write a line that ends in the same word and all of these lines relate to the poem still. I think that Elizabeth Bishop did an excellent job at keeping the poem related and yet it doesn't become boring hearing and reading the same words over and over again.

Ten Poems

For the ten poems I decided to look up poems that have a romance theme because I am planning on looking at them as a school. The ten I found are: "Inspiration", "My Heart", "Because of You I'm Free", "My Reason to Live", Me and You", "The Little Things", The Way He Gets Me", The Fight", Humor is the Start", and "Why". For the my two favorite I choose "My Heart"and "Why". I liked these two because they were very personal and I could feel the emotion in them as I was reading them. They are also very simple and easy to understand.

Poems from class

Potato

If they smell like dirt
Then they’re ripe
Earth’s vegetable


Brown and rough
Eyes staring back at me
The duct tape of food


I CELEBRATE, my soul, myself
And what I loaf belongs to you
Summer grass and perfect health
Every atom of my blood is new

Robert Frost

While I was searching for poems, I discovered that I like Robert Frost's poems. I enjoy how his poems are set in the nature and that they have a really nice rhythm. I chose to read "Fireflies in the Garden", "Fire and Ice", "House Fear", "The Runaway", "Dust of Snow", and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening". For my two favorite of these six would by the last two.
"Dust of Snow" was a really nice read. I loved the rhyme of it and how one little crow could change the way a man can precieve and feel about the rest of his day. That crow shaking down the snow changed his whole mood and made him happy. "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" was also a poem with a nice rhythm. This poem was also very sad. It made me sad to think that the man was in such a beautiful area and that the woods were so pretty and yet the man was making his trek to his death. I also loved how he incorporated how the horse must be feeling. The last two lines "and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep" make such an impact on how the man must be feeling and on the poem in general. I really like Robert Frost's writing style and how he can bring such emotion to the characters.

Shakespeare

For my critical blog I decided to go through line by line of William Shakespeare's poem "That the time of year thou mayst in me behold". Shakespeare can be a little tricky to understand so maybe this will help a little.

That time of year you can behold me
When the leaves are gone or are yellow
On the branches that shake in the cold
Where birds once sung but no longer do
In me you will see a twilight of a day
After the sunsets in the west
Which shortly the night takes over
You will sleep
In me you will see a fire
That once was his childhood
That has died
His memories are also dead
This you will see will make our love stronger
The love which you must have forever

This is my own interpretation of the poem and might not necessarily be correct.

Poems

If I had to pick one of the poems that we read for today and label it as my "favorite" I would choose "Woodchucks". This poem offered up some mild humor and some relativity to my life. Having grown up on a farm I have seen my fair share of Woodchucks and let me tell you they are not easy to get rid of as the author has stated. The poet did a wonderful job of putting all of the frustration into a poetic verse. The way he describe to process is correct to a tee. I laughed at this poem and it was one of the few poems I didn't mind reading. Life would be so much easier if they would just die by gas instead of making it more difficult for us.