#29

I ran across this elegy lyrics... These words really caught my eyes..

As I Lat Dying Lyrics

did you ever see me or could you see me at all
i looked at your cold white face so still, so empty
yet i knew you were at rest
much more comforted than i
what else could i replace who you were
it was the carefree unrestricted love that
you never meant to give
you never had the choice
it was you innocence
it was part of who you were
it was the comfort of a friend

#28

I decided to post a prose poem for my free entry this week..

Russell Edson
Sleep
There was man who didn't know how to sleep; nodding
off every night into a drap, unprofessional sleep. Sleep that
he'd grown so tired of sleeping
He'd tried reading the Manuel of sleep, but it just put him
to sleep. That same old sleep that he'd grown tired of
sleeping...
He needed a sleeping master, who with whip and a
chair would discipline the night, and make him jump through
hoops of gasoline fire. Someone who could make a tiger sit
on a tiny pedestal and yawn.

#27

There was one prose poem that actually caught my eye. The name of it is "Man with Wooden Leg Escapes Prison". I really did enjoy reading that poem because it actually sounded like a poem. Even though, It had a plot within the text. I felt like it was pointless and the man probably didn't learn his lesson. I thought it was really funny how he escapes from prison and all they do is take his wooden leg and tells him that he just has to over come some obstacles for a year. I am like come on. When was this actually written because now days that punishment seems almost impossible. Not only that they decides to give him his leg back? My question is why? There was no telling what he did in the first place to even be in prison. But what caught me by surprise was in the end he does not want his leg back. In his mind, he had already formulated an other plan to escape only using one leg. That lets me know that he did not learn his lesson in the first place.

#26

I guess we can imagine that my critical this week is going to be about prose poems. There are on going arguments about whether prose poetry is poetry or prose, or a separate genre altogether. Most critics argue that prose poetry belongs in the genre of poetry because of its heightened attention to language and prominent use of metaphor.Other critics argue that prose poetry falls into the genre of prose because prose poetry relies on prose's association with narrative and on the expectation of an objective presentation of truth. I believe that most of the poem in our packet from this week should in fact be made into a short story. Why do I say this? because you essential elements. The exposition, rising action, climax, and falling action all work into one. Lets reflect back on the first day of class. We discussed the definition of poetry. Some might have expand on the basic idea but for the most part we think of poetry as a collections of thoughts/emotions. A prose poem is not a collection of thoughts/emotions. In a way its a story about you thought and emotions.

For my free entry this week, I decided to post a inspiration poem.
The Victor
C.W Longenecker

If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you like to win but think you can't,
It's almost a cinch you won't.
If you think you'll lose, you're lost.
For out in the world we find
Success begins with a fellow's will
It's all in the state of mind.
If you think you are out classed, you are.
You've got to think high to rise.
You've got to be sure of your-self before
You can ever win the prize.
Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man.
But sooner or later, the man who wins
is the man who thinks he can

#24

One of the poems from the found and listing the caught my eye was Symposium Paul Muldoon. I just found this poem very interesting. I think because the style is playful but clever at the same time. In my opinion, the author shows a sense of humor at times throughout the poem.
Paul Muldoon
Symposium
You can bring a horse to water but you can't make it hold
its nose to the grindstone and hunt with the hounds.
Every dog has a stitch in time. Two heads? You've been sold
one good turn. One good turn deserves a bird in the hand.

A bird in the hand is better than no bread.
To have your cake is to pay Paul.
Make hay while you can still hit the nail on the head.
For want of a nail the sky might fall.

People in glass houses can't see the wood
for the new broom. Rome wasn't built between two stools.
Empty vessels wait for no man.

A hair of the dog is a friend indeed.
There's no fool like the fool
who's shot his bolt. There's no smoke after the horse is gone.

I feel like the author does a very good job on his word play. It is full of allusion and rhyme. At times sometimes I feel like the rhymes are forced but that was not a huge problem only an opinion. This poem displays meaning that can be hidden. In other words, you have to read deep into the poem itself. You can't just read it at face value. Meanings, words, and characters fold back or feed upon each other. He is particularly good at conveying a moment or a character from his past, or following a chain of memories or incidents through unlikely twists. Texts within the poems are elsewhere, ideas and approaches are reexamined in completely different circumstances.

#23

This week discussed some different types of forms within poetry and one of them happened to be found poems. Let say say that this type of form was not hard, I just did not like it at all. It was fun that our professor allowed some class time to experience how to write a found poem. I found that exercise very difficult. I was sitting in my seat completely lost. As I browsed through the magazine, I did find something that caught my eye but I could not write a thing about it. I think I probably come up with two lines at the most. I think do not have a creative mind. Why do I not like found poems? because they take words or phrases from other texts and reorder them and them present them as poems. I am very much in doubt about doing this because I am afraid of plagiarism. We have been told not to complete of paraphrase other people works with out quoting them and those things just stay stuck in my mind. Many poets have also chosen to incorporate snippets of found texts into larger poems. When poets write those snippets in there poems in their mind they think its helpful which it is, but For me and maybe its just me. I found them hard to follow. Because once I read the snippets I have to go back and reread the lines in the poem to get a better understanding. At times this can be very frustrating especially if you are reading something difficult and you don't already like such as that periodic table found poem in our packet this week.