Monday, February 4, 2008

Journal #1- how I feel about poetry

So, I've always wanted to be the kind of person who could talk about their favorite poets, or their favorite poems, but truthfully ive never been able to get into poetry. I guess it frustrates me because I'm the kind of person that doesn't like to dance around a subject, I would much rather the subject of a conversation, story, arguement to be laid down on the table point blank. Poetry isn't like that and that confuses me. Its hard for me to look deep and try to come up with what the poet was trying to say about war, in 3 lines that seem to be about a little boy playing.

Now i'm not trying to sound bitter or unwilling to try, but I know its going to be dificult, but i'm excited about the chance I have to actually understand and possibly enjoy some poetry. I absolutely love to read, but poetry was the one thing I could never get into. Hopefully this year will be different and I can learn a thing or two about it and maybe get some enjoyment out of it.

1 comment:

S. Anderson said...

I definitely understand that it feels like you should already completely understand everything about poetry before you get started reading, but I hope that some of the experiences you have had in this class is about the finding out instead of immediately knowing.