Poetry

I have never been a big fan of poetry. I have never understood it and it makes absolutely no sense to me. I tried to understand these poems but I just can’t seem to grasp what they are saying. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufock” which was written by T.S. Eliot, was the longest one out of the whole assignment that was given. While I was reading it, it seemed that it had no set pattern to it. It would rhyme and then it wouldn’t, then it would go back to rhyming again and then stop. That poem kept confused me a lot. The second poem was called “London”, and it was written by William Blake. This was the shortest poem of the whole assignment. To me it seemed kind of a depressing poem. It first starts off by saying that he was walking down a street. Then it talks about men, a chimney sweeper and infants crying and I guess he heard these while he was walking. This poem gives off this dark vibe because it mentions curses, plagues, and hearses. So this gives me the idea that London is an extremely depressing place. In the last part of the assignment I chose “10th Street Pelican” and “Witness”. These poems are written by Alison Watkins. What makes her poetry so neat is she gives a visual and music while she reads her poems. This makes it 3-dimensional poetry. She explained all this in her artist statement. In the “10th Street Pelican”, she had a video of the Pelican floating of top of a body of water with this Hispanic beat playing in the background as she is reading. In the “Witness”, it has a video of all these paintings of these people and the music is someone playing the guitar. I found this 3-dimensional poetry to be the most amusing to me because it stands out.