My ideas of poetry have broadened after the Week 11 activities because I had a sense of what poetry is but I forget how different poetry can be. It’s a broad writing form. When I think of poetry, I think of repetition and rhyme and though those literary devices are found in poems, that is not all poems are. It has been a while since I’ve refreshed my memory on poetry but I find that the short video from Activity 3 helped differentiate the different types of poetry, specifically sonnets. I have always been fond of poems and how poems can have many different meanings while being so concise. I am more drawn to powerful imagery and stories so poems are interesting to me but sometimes can be hard to break down. Reading Activity 5 Sonnet Number 130, “My Mistress’s Eyes Are Nothing like the Sun” by Shakespeare helped break down the sonnet making it easier to understand and less intimidating. I’m usually able to understand poems but Shakespeare’s work can sometimes stump me so the short video helped me better understand the sonnets for this week.
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Hey Shaniyah,
I felt the same way, I forgot how diverse poetry is. How a simple line can have complex meanings. How the words can create such vivid imagery that can stand in strong contradiction to what the author is truly saying. I didn’t even know poetry aside from haikus had such rigid structural rules differing by regions. I thought it was mostly free flow thought. There’s even a method to structuring rhyme, who knew? Learning what Sestets and Octaves are in poetry was surprising, considering I always related octave to singing (bad joke, but true).
Hi Shaniyah,
I agree that most of the time I equated poems with repetition and rhyming, but that is not all that poetry is nor do all poems always contain those two constructs. I also appreciated reading “My Mistress’s Eyes Are Nothing like the Sun” it was ironic and comical.
Hey Shaniyah,
While reading your Discussion, I feel like where on the same page. While watching the short video on activity 3, it helped me understand the different types of poetry. Italian and Elizabeth Sonnets explained how word, sound devices, and imagery affect mood, meaning and theme. It also explained how there are two different types of sonnets. Hearing Poetry and reading it is so different. When you listen to poetry, you can hear and feel the emotions behind the poet. But when you read it, you’ll have to understand and figure out how the poet is feeling and truly understand their words. Activity 2 “How to Read a Poem” helped me better understand poetry.