Hello all!
Man oh man has it been a busy week! Sorry it has taken me such a long time to come back to blogging, but I have not had a day off work since last sunday! It is good to be back though!
Hope everyone enjoyed their poetry week! Like I talked about in my last post I was very very nervous about poetry week because I just do not understand it, no matter how long I sit down and try to read poetry, it does not comprehend with my brain, so therefore props to everyone that thought this week was easy! I actually enjoyed my last week's readings of poetry.
One poem that really caught my attention was "mother". It is a poem about a woman who had an abortion, and in my opinion regretted it. I liked the way that this poet wrote the poem, it was very easy to follow and understand. At times it made me mad, at times it made me sad, and other times it made me happy. It was all over the place, but I am glad it was not just a depressing poem, because at the first few lines that is the direction I thought it was heading. I felt that the mother did not want an abortion, that maybe she had no support or help and just went off her initial reaction, and that was she could not do this alone. I do not think that the mother would have done what she did if she really sat and thought it through, because throughout the poem the poet talks about the life the baby is missing out on, and she will never hear their life or cry, or never know what that baby could of been. To me that seemed as though she really did not want to do what she had done and if she could taken it back she would.
I am not sure why that poem stuck out to me, but it did.
One poet I was not to fond of was e. e. cummings. I found him VERY hard to follow and if I read it all together in one big sentence it made some sense, but still I just had a difficult time grasping what he was trying to get across, but that just may be my struggle with poetry coming out.
Well thats all I had to say for this week:) Hope everyone else did well this week with poetry and all I can say is I cannot WAIT to read The Great Gatsby coming this next week!!!
Thank You
Too da Lou
Chelsey Meyer
I agree, the abortion poem was a tough read.
ReplyDeleteLike the death penalty, it is a decision that cannot be undone. I read that 87% of women experience some form of PTSD in the years after an abortion. I wonder how many of them would read that poem and identify with the "mother."
I enjoyed that poem as well. I took it as a diverse opinion on the issue of abortion. I gathered there were reasons for that option (mothers who couldn't handle the duties or were forced into the situation) and times when years later would still have a lasting whole and impression. It was definitely one of my favorite poems of that session to read because there wasn't as much pushing the literary analysis to see what was being expressed.
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