This week in poetry we all had to analyze four different poems. These poems were "Poetry" by Marianne Moore, "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks, "Homage to My Hips" by Lucille Clifton, and "Summer" by Lucien Stryk. My favorite poem would have to be "We Real Cool." I like it because I feel that it's really fun to say/rap and it's very clever. I also like how after I thought about each line and figured out what it meant I felt pretty clever and smart. "Homage to My Hips" is my second favorite. I like how her hips are being personified the whole time, and how the shape of the poem is in the shape of her hips. I have never seen this before, and thought that it was pretty cool.
I think my least favorite was "Poetry."I didn't like it because I couldn't read it easily. I had to read over the same line a couple of times different ways before it would sound right. I also didn't exactly follow what it was saying. I understand that it was about poetry, but I'm not sure whether the author even liked it or not. I think I'm getting better at analyzing and understanding each technique, though. Practice really is making perfect in our lesson right now!
Thanks for reading, Taylor
Good post, Taylor! I agree with you about "Poetry" being the hardest poem to understand, and it definitely confused me too! I had never seen the shape of the poem being used to symbolize something, like it does in "Homage to my Hips", and I thought that was very interesting!
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