Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Poetry
Poems are the next thing on our list for this class. I have great difficulty in analyzing them because most have verbiage I don't necessarily understand. I try to break it down but sometimes even with my dictionary in hand (yes in hand) it is difficult. Poetry is fustrating for me but I hope that with some great guidance that I will be able to work through this and get where I need to be with the poems.
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Hello Jeannemarie!
ReplyDeleteIm glad your feeling better and back in class, although we haven't met yet.
But I fully agree on your meaning about not being to understand some poems and the difficulty analyzing them. I get guidance from internet 'scholarly' sources. I admit Im not the best analyzing of poems either , it's all about what you perceive them to be. There is no right or wrong answer, just how you see it. Trust me, they get easier to understand when you read about the author and their background, the more you read the easier it gets.
Good Luck.
~Helene
Thank you Helene for the kind words and the warm welcome back to class. It's funny that you mentioned reading about the author. I haven't been doing it because I was thinking
ReplyDelete"oh it's just a bio" but you are right, it does change your perception of whatever it is you are reading. I appreciate the information and I am going to see if that helps with the scholarly sources. Thanks for sharing and give me a holla in class.
I don't enjoy reading poetry. I feel like it's a mind game which I hate mind games. I like reading stories that are straight to the point that get to the bottom of what I need to understand. I don't enjoy trying to figure things out.
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