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.
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