Taylor Madden
Friday, April 29, 2011
The Guitarist Tunes Up (Shall this be Poetry Response 5?)
Honestly, I didn't really like this poem. It's a sweet ode to guitar playing. He loves music and loves playing his guitar. I can relate to it too, via tennis. I play tennis and am very attached to my raquet. I was just bored by it. He compared his love to loving a woman. Very typical. I did like the line "with what attentive courtesy he bent over his instrument." That line was very emotional and seemed real. I could picture some one awing over their instrument. But once he compared it to a woman, my interest was lost to tell the truth.
Howl
Today, a blog was read on an excerpt from Howl, and I found the piece incredibly interesting. I started to read more of the whole thing, but it was quite long, so I'll just talk about the excerpt.
First off, I loved the structure of the poem. It had very little punctuation and was more off a long stream of consciencness. It was a cautic account of what seemed to be bad memories of repression. This structure really fit the topic of the poem. It had a few lines of what seemed to be the speaker in an insane asylum. There were lines about people being dragged off and of suicides and repression. I just thought it was very cool how the speaker seemed to be in a cautic environment and that feeling came across from his specific diction and grammar.
I also liked how every two lines was a different story of sorts. This probably goes into the cautic feeling, but I wanted to point it out more specifically. He is very fast in his writing. He gives a short, but very emotional and vivid descriptions. This is just impressive. He gets his ideas across so quickly and vividly.
First off, I loved the structure of the poem. It had very little punctuation and was more off a long stream of consciencness. It was a cautic account of what seemed to be bad memories of repression. This structure really fit the topic of the poem. It had a few lines of what seemed to be the speaker in an insane asylum. There were lines about people being dragged off and of suicides and repression. I just thought it was very cool how the speaker seemed to be in a cautic environment and that feeling came across from his specific diction and grammar.
I also liked how every two lines was a different story of sorts. This probably goes into the cautic feeling, but I wanted to point it out more specifically. He is very fast in his writing. He gives a short, but very emotional and vivid descriptions. This is just impressive. He gets his ideas across so quickly and vividly.
Monday, April 25, 2011
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