What were the main ideas we learned this past week?
By focusing even more on poetry this week, I am really starting to appreciate poetry and enjoy reading and writing it. Although I personally liked "The Eagle" more than the poem we read this week, I think I am getting better at explicating poetry and thinking about poetic elements in deeper, more meaningful ways. I thought that the poem, "Cross" was very interesting but a lot more straightforward than "The Eagle". "Cross" did not have as much figurative language or symbolism so it was hard to interpret many different meanings of the poem. I believe that there are still multiple meanings and ideas behind the poem depending on what the elements of the poem represent to each reader, but I think there are also many concrete phrases and lines that are not very open to broad interpretation. Although some classmates had different views and opinions about details of the poem, the main ideas of the poem were mostly agreed upon when we discussed them as a class.
We were not only able to read and analyze poetry this week, but write poems in response to the creative writing prompt on Tuesday. The challenge was to write an 100 word poem using only words with one syllable. I thought it was fun to try to create a powerful story and message using a few small words put together in just the perfect way. An important thing that I learned from this is that short poems with small, basic words can be as powerful or even more powerful than poems with bigger, more intricate words. I really enjoyed writing these poems as well as reading poetry this week and am excited to see what next week's poem with be!
By focusing even more on poetry this week, I am really starting to appreciate poetry and enjoy reading and writing it. Although I personally liked "The Eagle" more than the poem we read this week, I think I am getting better at explicating poetry and thinking about poetic elements in deeper, more meaningful ways. I thought that the poem, "Cross" was very interesting but a lot more straightforward than "The Eagle". "Cross" did not have as much figurative language or symbolism so it was hard to interpret many different meanings of the poem. I believe that there are still multiple meanings and ideas behind the poem depending on what the elements of the poem represent to each reader, but I think there are also many concrete phrases and lines that are not very open to broad interpretation. Although some classmates had different views and opinions about details of the poem, the main ideas of the poem were mostly agreed upon when we discussed them as a class.
We were not only able to read and analyze poetry this week, but write poems in response to the creative writing prompt on Tuesday. The challenge was to write an 100 word poem using only words with one syllable. I thought it was fun to try to create a powerful story and message using a few small words put together in just the perfect way. An important thing that I learned from this is that short poems with small, basic words can be as powerful or even more powerful than poems with bigger, more intricate words. I really enjoyed writing these poems as well as reading poetry this week and am excited to see what next week's poem with be!