Poetry

Sonnets have always been a bit of a struggle for me to understand, however some of the ones we read actually hit home for me. Many of the Shakespeare pieces were about relationships, love, heartbreak and those are always relate able to everyone whether they want to admit it or not. I really enjoyed picking some of the more complicated sonnets apart and discovering what they meant; it is almost like they are all a puzzle that take time to assemble and fit together to make one picture that makes sense. Working in groups to come up with ideas and to figure out meanings and look up words really does make the understanding process a lot easier. When you put multiple brains who are thinking in different directions and have different perspectives it becomes very interesting to hear what others have to say. We have some characters in our class so it is nice and refreshing to hear all of the conflicting and unusual interpretations that maybe I would have never come up with because I am not thinking like them, or I haven't experienced the things they have experienced. My favorite poem was the jumbled up "sonnet" that in order to read you had to skip every line and read it in a crazy way for it to make sense. Once we read it the way it was supposed to be read then it had a completely different meaning. That was what made me think, "wow okay maybe this whole poetry thing isn't as lame as I thought, because that was awesome!" Reading and analyzing the poetry from last week definitely has me better prepared and inspired to create my own sonnets.