Poetry Reflection Blog
Based on our study of poetry, please take the time now to reflect and respond to what you have learned.
1~ Poetry can be a vital, real part of everyone's life. What place or importance does poetry have in
my own life? Does poetry belong to everyone? How do I know?
Poems are relatively important in my life. Sometimes I stumble upon a poem that really change my
perspective on something, or sometimes they’re really entertaining. In my opinion, everyone should
have the privilege to create poetry, but you don’t own the poem unless you made it.
2~ How does the life and experiences of a poet affect the poem he/she creates?
Many poets base their poems off real events that happened in their lives. A major event in someone’s l
ife can be good inspiration for a poem, as it gives the poet a lot to write about. The real life of a poet
affects their poetry by impacting what they write about, or the hidden tones inside their poetry.
One example would be Edgar Allen Poe’s poems. He’s known for his very dark and deep poems,
although fictional, Edgar was a very disturbed man in real life due to things like his wife’s death,
things like that probably inspired him to make the dark poetry that he made.
3~ Choose two poems (one that you have read and one that you have written yourself) and analyze
how a poem's form and structure contribute to its meaning. Also, analyze the impact that words/phrases,
rhyme, alliteration, repetition, and figurative language have on the poem.
One of my poems, my apology poem, uses structure in order to contribute to its meaning. In the poem,
I apologize for throwing my sister’s paint set in the trash can, but I’m not really sorry.
“Yeah Mom, I feel bad
Sorry Caroline.
YOU made me clean up your mess
So to avoid that in the future,
I threw your paint set
In the trash
I totally,
To the bottom of my heart
apologize for wasting one of our
Trash bags”
The lines are small cut up pieces in order to make the actual apology part of the poem as cut up.
This makes the apology seem unserious and not true, the structure of the poem contributed to the
meaning of the poem.
One poem that I’ve read before that uses structure to contribute to its structure would be one of my
favorite poems of all time, “Do not go gentle into that good night” by Dylan Thomas.
“Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on that sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
The structure of the poem contributes to its meaning by portraying to the reader the importance of its
message. It repeatedly insists to not let the light die, it uses repetition to solidify this meaning into the
reader’s mind. Dylan Thomas uses words such as “Rage”, “death”, and “fierce” to show the reader the
importance of the poem’s message, he constantly uses these words to keep a reader’s attention.
In conclusion, in our poetry unit I learned that people can use poetry to convey very strong meanings
by utilizing structure, and that due to their strong meanings, they can play an important role in my life.
In conclusion, in our poetry unit I learned that people can use poetry to convey very strong
messages by utilizing structure and that due to their strong meanings,
they can play an important role in my life.
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