Tackling Poetry

We will dive right into poetry this week, and begin our great journey into analyzing it and loving every minute of it. ;) I know the class as a whole is divided on the idea of poetry. Some of you can't wait to discuss the nuances within each poem, and many of you are sighing and dreading these days in class. I promise that it will be fun. We are not only going to cover the basic poetry you see within textbooks, we are also going to cover contemporary poets and music artists. Music after all is poetry. If you go into it thinking about it that way (music is poetry), you'll probably enjoy it more and understand it more. Now I will say that we will not cover rap artists (sorry but I just can't get behind them), but we will cover some other genres of music. So now that I have you all a twitter with what we'll be covering, I'm going to throw another bombshell at you. Poetry is one of the best ways to learn about author's theme, purpose, and use of literary devices. It's short, sweet, and to the point. You don't have to cover massive amounts of text to get your answers. So see, there are benefits. It also keeps you in the mindset of looking for them as you read. It's all about making analysis second nature, and poetry is going to help us achieve that goal. Happy poetry all!