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.
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