Reflection on Poetry

Since the poetry unit is soon approaching its end, I thought that I would blog once again about how I felt about poems, and if this unit has changed any of my thoughts towards the subject.

To make a long story short, I still do not enjoy poetry. A lot of the poetry is confusing, and I usually can not fully understand the poem. Additionally, the majority of the poems topics does not interest me. I would rather read an educational article that is full of information that would be useful to me.

While my attitude toward poetry did not change during this unit, I did discover one beautiful aspect of poetry that I was not aware of before. It is the rhyme scheme of the poems, which in other words is the sound aspect of the poem. I found the different patterns of stressing the syllables very interesting, since growing up with another language as a primary language that made my intonations different from the typical American. This unit helped me learn the stressing and unstressing in the English language. It also allowed me to appreciate the beauty of these poems, in that how two lines that do not rhyme with syllables instead rhyme with the stressing of the words in the line. I thank this unit for that.

I still do not understand poetry very well. I will not be able to identify conceits in the poem and completely understand it without more practice. However, now I understand (somewhat) how the sound works in a poem.  I did not really enjoy this unit (partly because of the poetry journals and MC practice), but I did enjoy the foot lesson.