Poetry Reflection

     

      When I think of poetry I always feel like I want to write about my origin city Durango, Mexico. The place that poetry makes me feel like a poet is Durango because when you describe this marvelous city a bunch of imagery comes up in my mind. I wrote a bunch of poems about this city and poetry helps bring out the happiness out of me. When I write about this city I feel like I’m actually there and poetry helps bring out the excitement/opinions about this city. The importance of poetry in my opinion is that a person can show what he/she really feels or they can poems to say something that can not be said with words. The importance of poetry in my life is that it taught me that poetry has to do more than just rhyming. In this poetry unit I learned a bunch of unique poetry forms and my favorite one was the spine poem. Overall this unit effected because now I can express myself using other types of poetry. 

 In my opinion I think that poetry does not belong to everyone because some people feel like they can represent their feelings another way. I think that poetry doesn’t belong to me because I’ve never been good with the concepts of poetry. I usually describe my feelings by writing narratives or sometimes when I have a great connection with a certain book. When I go through the hallways many people mention that they think they’re not good with poetry and some of them prefer writing in a journal. Another reason I know that poetry doesn’t belong to people because they usually write short stories and they make sure that their main character has some of the writer’s feelings. Overall I know because of personal experience and some of my friends have shared their opinions on this question. 

 The life and experiences of a poet usually effect the poem because the writer is writing about their own opinions. For example many poems have to do with lets say the Holocaust and these poem are tragic/sad because of the writer’s perspective on that certain event. These poems have to do about the situations that the Jewish people had to go through and a famous example of a poem like this is a poem by Anne Frank. When I went to Mexico it inspired me to write a happy poem in order to represent my feelings. This unit taught me that poetry can’t only be expressed by words but it can also be expressed through books. The type of poetry that truly effected me was the spine poetry because I could express my emotions through books. Instead of coming up with another character I was able to use my own favorite characters to represent my feelings.