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Thursday, November 1, 2018

"Whenever I have dipped into books of aesthetics, I have had an uncomfortable feeling that I was reading the works of astronomers who never looked at the stars. I mean that they were writing about poetry as if poetry were a task, and not what it really is: a passion and a joy. For example, I have read with great respect Benedetto Croce's book on aesthetics, and I have been handed the definition that poetry and language are an "expression." Now, if we think of an expression of something, then we land back at the old problem of form and matter; and if we think about the expression of nothing in particular,that gives us really nothing. So we respectfully receive that definition, and then we go on to something else. We go on to poetry; we go on to life. And life is, I am sure, made of poetry. Poetry is not alien - poetry is, as we shall see, lurking round the corner. It may spring on us at any moment".

I think this is a good way of making sure you are not writing like an idiot. Sometimes we write in school like we have to write it in a certain way or structure. If we write poetry like it's poetry, it loses the effect. Poetry can just happen and you won't even realize it. Self expression comes up a lot in poetry and art, you can be telling a story or experience and you can have it become poetry in a snap. Almost like how you think, you think of different words that relate to a certain experience and it gets written down on paper and just makes sense to you. Sometimes explaining doesn't have to happen in poetry.

Monday, October 29, 2018

Where Do Poems Come From?

Rape Poem

Somewhere near the beginning of this poem, Marge says,
"There is no difference between being raped
And being bit on the ankle by a rattlesnake
Except that people ask if your skirt was short
And why you were out anyhow. "
She relates this to being bit by a snake because people normally don't question choices like why she was wearing what she wore or why she was out. Often, women are blamed for their own rape tragedies because of the choices they made but the truth is, women should be able to wear whatever they want without having to be questioned. Later on in the poem, she says,
"Rattling keys like a snake's warning",
which relates back to the first part as it compares to a snake.

"The Portrait" by Stanley Kunitz

This poem makes the father seem as though he is still alive. It shows that art and pictures are memories and never go away unless destroyed.

The way Langston Hughs describes his poem takes us through his mindset and gave context around where the poem came from. Poems happen randomly and out of nowhere. It is not hard to find poetry around us because it is everywhere.