Introduction

Hi, we're Kathryn, Woody, and David!

The reason we started this blog was to showcase our knowledge of poetry from Ms. Hart's English class.

We hope to communicate a deeper understanding of poetry via this blog.

Woody: I enjoy reading poetry, but I do not enjoy writing poetry. While studying poetry I liked the meanings because I thought they were insightful, although I did not like writing about it.

David: Poetry is a very interesting topic to me. I enjoy glancing at a few poems once in a while. Writing it on the other hand is different. I do not enjoy this as much as reading it.

Kathryn: I enjoy reading poetry a lot. I really like getting into the emotion of the poem and reciting it aloud. I enjoy writing it, as long as I'm not forced to write it. I have to be inspired. I enjoy studying it a little bit, but I don't like taking notes or analyzing it on paper.

We've learned how to analyze diction, speaker, connotation, and other aspects of a poem. We've also learned how to figure out the meaning of a poem. This year we've drawn pictures, taken notes, and even changed words in the poem to figure out and help us better understand them. We are definitely learning a lot more about poetry than we have in past years.

There are many things we hope to learn about poetry in the remaining 2 weeks of our poetry lesson.

Kathryn: I want to learn a little bit more about how to read a poem out loud. I enjoy reading it so much that I want to learn to time it correctly.

David: I want to learn how to analyze poems a little better in the remaining time we have in poetry.

Woody: I would also like to learn how to better read poems out loud.