Before doing all these activities I used to think poems looked very simple at face value but now I know that there is more to poems than I thought. When I used to read poems If I didn’t get the message or the point at the beginning I would just assume that it was too difficult for me to understand. After reading the activity 2 article “How to read a Poem.” I have better ways to try and understand a poem. The questions in the article can give me a base line of questions to ask myself when reading the poem to get a better understanding. I also didn’t know about some of the forms of poems like sonnets. I found it interesting that sonnets can be in different categories even though they are both sonnets. In activity 3 I found it interesting how an Italian sonnet has two different stanzas with the octave being 8 lines and the sestet being 6 lines. I also found it interesting how the octave would show a question with the sestet showing the answer.
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I agree I used to think that poetry was a lot simpler on a surface level but after doing these activities it helped me to realize that it’s a lot more complex as well as how to read them and understand them properly.
Hello Alvin,
I also talked about the article “How to read a Poem” in my post. I agree with you that reading the article gave us a better baseline of questions to ask ourselves. Those questions were something that I had never thought of asking myself to get a deeper understanding of the texts. It gives us the tools necessary to find other ways to see read the poem and put ourselves into the shoes of the writer and see different perspectives as opposed to reading it only in our own view.