This week we had to read from the Tocqueville book. It has many different forms of poetry in it which is impressive. The poems are mostly complex in thought and have a much more sophisticated language. This can make the poems confusing and hard to interpret. The poems that were based on PowerPoint presentations was hard to read because there was so much complex language, when PowerPoints are typically simple and easy to read/interpret.
Over the weekend we were supposed to write an imitation poem, or a response poem, to one of the poems in the poetry packet. The poem I chose to make an imitation poem out of was Langston Hughes, "Preference". Instead of the poem being from the point of a man wanting older women, I wrote it as a woman wanting younger men.
The poem called Tocqueville is very complex and well written. It uses a wide range of vocabulary and has tons of historical and intellectual references. This just shows it off as being a more in depth poem, also making it harder to interpret. Also the different pieces of the poem don't seem to connect to each other all the time, making the poem more confusing to read. I notice lots of references to other countries and their policies, and societies, and how they compare to one another.
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Post about the Week of 1/20/15
This week we started looking at the book "Writing Down the Bones" by Natalie Goldberg. The book helps us students think about how to approach writing and how not to approach writing. The beginning of the book talks about how to get yourself to start writing while the deeper you go into the book the more complex the methodologies get.
One part of the book that really caught my attention was the chapter Writing is Not a McDonald's Hamburger. It tells about how you should not go into writing a story of some sort with a specific path in mind. As you write you will encounter different ideas and different scenarios and you will want to write it all down. The path you take to writing will be different every time you write something down.
Another part of the book that made me think was . It tells about how a story was about someone's thoughts or experiences at the specific time they wrote it. They could have been really sad when they wrote it, but just because you are reading it now does not mean they are sad right now. A story lets us express who we are in one moment, and after that moment we can change into whoever we want.
One part of the book that really caught my attention was the chapter Writing is Not a McDonald's Hamburger. It tells about how you should not go into writing a story of some sort with a specific path in mind. As you write you will encounter different ideas and different scenarios and you will want to write it all down. The path you take to writing will be different every time you write something down.
Another part of the book that made me think was . It tells about how a story was about someone's thoughts or experiences at the specific time they wrote it. They could have been really sad when they wrote it, but just because you are reading it now does not mean they are sad right now. A story lets us express who we are in one moment, and after that moment we can change into whoever we want.
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Response to Poetry Packet 1/15/15
The first poem I looked at was "The Scent of Verbena" by Hinako Abe. This poem was very interesting at first because of its format. It was multiple pyramid shapes that made it different than the other poems. It felt as you got closer to the peaks of the pyramids, it got more suspenseful and intense, and as you got closer to the base it was more calming. Even though I did not fully understand the poem's message, the images it created were very suspenseful and dramatic. The wording was simple, but the combination of the words made it very complex.
Comparing the sonnets was difficult to do since I am not very good at interpreting poems. What I noticed was similar is they are all showing some sort of idea of love. The Shakespearean sonnets were much more sophisticated in their words and writing and language overall. On the other hand, the Ted Berrigan sonnets seem much more modern since they are using names of recent known people as well as words that are much more modern.
The poetry packet overall was a good way to get me introduced to different types of poems and different styles of writing of poems. The language and length of poems may be really complex or very simple, yet they all still seem to make me think a lot about what they could truly mean.
Comparing the sonnets was difficult to do since I am not very good at interpreting poems. What I noticed was similar is they are all showing some sort of idea of love. The Shakespearean sonnets were much more sophisticated in their words and writing and language overall. On the other hand, the Ted Berrigan sonnets seem much more modern since they are using names of recent known people as well as words that are much more modern.
The poetry packet overall was a good way to get me introduced to different types of poems and different styles of writing of poems. The language and length of poems may be really complex or very simple, yet they all still seem to make me think a lot about what they could truly mean.
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Intro Post
Hello I'm Anthony Cooper. I'm a sophomore at Eastern Michigan University and I am in the Simulation, Animation, and Gaming program. I enjoy video games and the thought of being able to make my own and have someone else play it and enjoy playing it. A little bit about me is that I was a swimmer for 5 years and my favorite animal is an otter.
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