#22

I kind of liked the Ghazal form and probably because its a poem based on couplets and has a rhyme. A ghazal maybe understood as a poetic expression of both pain and loss or separation and the beauty of love in spite of that pain. One poem in particular that caught my eye was Jim Harrison Drinking Song. I think this is a very relate able topic and when people read this poem, Its nice to know that they are not the only in the world that has felt this way or even went down that road. I also found it very interesting that the author got his point across only writing six couplets. Each couplet does not relate to any other one but it still keep the theme consist throughout his poem.. I think my favorite couplet was "I'm going to be a child about it and I can't help it, I was born this way and it makes me very happy to fish and drink." I think that is should a powerful line because I know I have come to a point in my life where I felt like I was going about the situation in a childish way, and I tried making an excuse by saying I was born this way or that just how I am.

#21

For my free entry this week I decided to do Joshua form. It is called a bitter Haiku. I enjoyed creating our own format and decided to put those ideas to use. So here it goes:



malevolent love combined
as one distinct feeling
of relentless compassion.

I know this is not that bitter, but I tried.

#20

I know everyone in the class is probably going to a critical blog on the sestina poem because I know that was the most horrible thing I have ever had to for a school assignment. So I am going to talk about how much I disliked the anaphora poems. In the packet this week, I noticed that there was not information about the anaphora poems. I guess because it was self explanatory but I decided to look more into these poems

• Anaphora in general is used of coreferential relations, where one element in a sentence takes its meaning or reference from another.
• Famous poets use this figure of speech to convey and emphasize unusual and vivid images.
• The use of strong word association changes the mode of thought and adds variation, embellishment and adornment to literary works.

Those were just some interesting facts about Anaphora poems that I found as I was browsing the Internet and I thought it may or may not be useful. I would like to look at one of the Anaphora poems from our packet in more detail. The Burning Heart it was a good read but the repetition is very contradictory leaves the reader puzzled about who is the speaker and who is directing the thoughts to. I really just didn't understand that and I am the type of person that likes to know all the facts so I can put the poem together. Also at the end of the poem when it says Do you regret your life? that is question to me that as a reader you can't answer because you don not know the background information.