Here are a few thoughts for you:
What do you think about the following quote by Carl Sandburg?
"I've written some poetry I don't understand myself."
Carl Sandburg
Do you think that there are limits to what evidence we can draw from poetry analysis? Where would you draw that line with the poems that we read? What seems like a valid interpretation to you? What do you get from these two poems?
Have a nice weekend,
O.Pelletier
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I think that it's important that the poet understand himself when they write. Also most of the poetry have themes or a subject that concerns the poem. There are limits that we can draw from poetry analysis like if the reader truly understood it. Normaly somebody that gets it can interprete the theme with diferent literary analysis when someone that haven't read them has dificulties.
ReplyDeleteConcerning the poems that we read in class they are subtle and hard to truly understand. Maybe if we had background informations about the themes that are usually used. Then again depending on the poem itself some are pretty hard to get. :)
It makes sens to me that Carl sandburg wrote poetry that himself doesn't even understand.
ReplyDeleteI have difficulties to understand poems even in french and they can have so different meanings to each person because everybody has his own way to interpret words and sentences. In emily's Dickinson poem I didn't know it was about a locomotive after I read it.
I think it's hard to analyze poetry, generally speaking. Of course, there are some poets who will use any literary device to hide symbols, special meanings, and will make their poem something like a treasure hunt, but then there are also the ones who just write almost inconsciously, and who just write from the heart, or wherever it is their poems come from. In those types of poems, I don't think there is much to analyze: what's to see is only what's written.
ReplyDeleteI think the two poems we've read last class classify as 'the literary device poem' type. They were hard to analyze, though, because they were so cryptic we had no clue what we were reading about. I say there's a limit in wanting to confuse one's readers.
I think that it is important that you understand a part of your poem... or maybe not the meaning of what it is saying but at least why you make the effort to wrote it.
ReplyDeletePoems are a bit more complex than a text because they can give you a feeling of freedom by giving them the way that you want to understand them. Anyway that is a weird way to say that maybe that it will make you feel better after you wrote it. Maybe there's no limit because anyone can give them the meaning they want.
I personally like to write poems because they make me stop for a moment to think about what I want to say and how can I say it in a way that is my point of view
Loves English class with you guys :)
I didn't understood the two poems we read in class. I think it is weird that a poet doesn't even know what he writes about. How are we suppose to understand what he means if he doesn't even know it? I think poetry should be about expressing your feelings and sharing them, so that people can understand how you feel and if you're feeling the same way, you can relate to the poem.
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