Poetry Presentations

I really like the analysis of the poem “Poetry” by Marine Moore. I think the author does a great job of conveying that the poem an author writes only has to have meaning to the author themselves. In order to create meaning in a poem the author has to connect with it otherwise it means nothing. I think it helps to understand all poetry when we know that no matter how abstract it may seem to us, it’s the authors’ vision and that’s all that matters. Moore says that a poet has to be like “a baseball fan” and admire their own work.

In Williams Carlos Williams’s poems he tends to describe everyday things with short concise lines. He doesn’t go very deep with his poems but he describes his subjects in a very vague way. Since he uses lines that are so short, he uses really strong adjectives to help create imagery. For example in “The Red Wheel barrow” he is describing a simple every day object but because he uses simple and descriptive adjectives so that the reader really has a good picture of the wheelbarrow in their mind. I think that the author’s idea that there is beauty in simplicity is true when it comes to poetry and is very evident in all three of the poems.

The group that presented “Somewhere I have Never Traveled” by EE Cummings gave the analysis that the poem is about the love of a women that the author would never have. I agree with this analysis and I think that the conceit metaphor really showcases this throughout the poem. I learned that a conceit metaphor is a metaphor that is revealed and used throughout the entire poem. In this poem he uses the metaphor of springtime in the entire poem. At one point we see him use the metaphor by saying “only rain can make a flower open so delicately.” He uses the conceit metaphor of springtime to compare himself to a flower and the women to the rain.

The group that presented “The Garden” and “L Art “by Ezra Pound gave a really good explanation of the two poems. They said that the author uses strong imagery and metaphors to show that you can’t take things for face value. I think this was a really good way to look at these poems because the author is describing that even if something has a fancy name or appears desirable ,those things can leave you with a feeling of emptiness. When the author says things like “Green arsenic smeared on an egg white cloth,” you can really see the imagery used to show that things that seam good can really be the worst for you. The poems also had a musical rhythm to help convey the authors message.

I thought it was so interesting the way Hilda Doolittle incorperated feminism in her poem "Helen". Since the author was a strong advocate for feminism it's no suprise that she would allude to the famous Helen of Troy. She uses this allusion to show that men can be totally overpowered by a stong women like Helen of Troy, whose beauty was said to have started a war, The author uses strong imagery to emphasise the beauty of Helen to show that even though she was incredibly beautiful she could still hold a lot of power.