Friday, March 12, 2010

Live Fast Die Young

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"We Real Cool" by author Gwendolyn Brooks is a simple yet profound poem exploring the mindset of our wayward youth. "We real ...
Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Real Life Connection

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The poem "My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke was a poem that really stood out to me. At first like many other poeple who ha...

Torn

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A dislike for poetry is unfair. So, I would not say I do not like poetry, but I also would not say I love poetry either. Poems are a short a...

Poetry

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I have read poems before, many times. It wasn't until last week that I realized that some poems have a deeper meaning. I always just rea...
Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Degeneration X

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Sometimes a generation improves itself based on seeing the faults the previous generation had. In Raymond Carver's "Photograph of M...

My thoughts On Poetry

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Back in the day, I used to truly loathe poetry; I used to read through the poem, motivated by mothing more than the fact that it was a class...

Why poems?

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Poems are definitely not one of the easiest things to understand. You may think you understand what you need to know from the poem but when ...

Reflection on Poetry

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Poetry is a very unique type of writing. It does not always make sense, it does not always rhyme, and it is not always straight forward. Rea...

Poetry Blog Casey Laub

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So far I haven't minded reading poetry as much as I used to. I've honestly only read two poems so far, I only enjoyed one of them. I...

Reaction to Poetry

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Poetry is something that I am not too familiar with. This is the first time I have really had to sit down and read poems. I already see th...