Monday, January 26, 2015
Post Class Reflection
After class today, I began to develop a new appreciation for poetry that does not make any sense. While this may sound extremely unintelligent, I believe the poetry that is open to various interpretations and has no set meaning serves the most useful purpose. If a poet is able to convey his story to a reader, in which the reader is able to take whatever he/she wants from it, I consider that to be a poem of high quality. Simic's poems can be interpreted by different individuals in various ways, but the beauty of them is that they often left me flabbergasted. At times when I thought I was connecting the dots of the storyline, a new sentence would completely throw me off. Even though it was frustrating to read these poems because there was no clear storyline or even a visible connection between sentences, I started to enjoy this new form of poetry simply because it caused me to think about how the words pertain to my life. This is exactly why I find poetry more personal than other forms of writing. Not only when I write, but when I read, I am able to discover more about myself than I ever deemed possible.
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I agree Rahul. The idea that a poem could have many meanings always reviles itself everyday in class when Professor Beal asks us what we think a poem or part of a poem means. Despite our small classroom size, there are usually 5 different perspectives. Mine are usually superficial, but our other classmates have deep perspectives which I believe stems from our broad and diverse personalities. The broad interpretations of the poem though, make the class stimulating and engaging rather than a boring class about Shakespeare.
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