"Diving Into the Wreck" is now up on Blackboard. Sorry for the delay. Please read it for tomorrow, along with the other two poems, and come ready to discuss them. In an effort to make sure I have all of the midterms graded for tomorrow, I'm not going to post an "official" prompt, but I would still like responses. Please pull in some of the concepts from our reading as part of your response (and please make it clear which concepts you are referring to).
Thank you.
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"Life in a pretty town"
ReplyDeleteThe sounds in the beginning of this poem have just what the title suggests, a pretty sound. The words flow smoothly and have a light feel to them.
I was found it interesting that the order of the words summer, spring, autumn, winter and sun, moon, stars, rain changed through out the poem. That gave me the picture of time passing which is also carried through in the words used. They were light and fun in the beginning and towards the end of the poem there are harder sounds, words that are less appealing.
In Chapter 6 there is a statement saying that poets don't write a poem based on an experience but rather about a phrase that please them. I wonder what phrase prompted this poem!