Inside Class July 7

For class we were supposed to read “Introduction to Poetry” in our book. I read it and it really surprised me how much goes into poetry. I have never read much poetry in any class I’ve taken before so I did not know much of the language of poetry. So reading this, I learned a lot of new information that was very interesting to me. I took a lot of notes on the Figurative Language section, because I only was familiar with metaphors, similes, understatements, and oxymorons. I also thought it was amazing how many rhymes and verses there are, and it makes me feel sorry for Literature majors.
Before reading this article I did not think there was this much to poetry and anybody could do it well. But after reading this article and hearing everybody’s poems in class, I realized there is more to it than I thought. I gained a new respect for writers who do poetry. Reading the poems I realized they need a vast vocabulary, even to make the rhyme scheme work. I also poetry was generally less than a page long, but I quickly forgot that when looking for a poem that we liked in class. I also learned that poetry can actually bring up many feelings like my story “September Twelfth,” did in bringing up feelings from September 11, 2001. I think reading this article and reading poetry in class was a different and new experience, and I’m looking forward to writing our own poems in class and performing them.