Week 2

This week we read our poems to a few other people where we had to choose a poet that had a more musical tone to imitate. This was a good exercise to get used to writing something that will then be shared. We also did an in class exercise focusing on the differences in abstract and concrete words that would allow us to broaden our descriptions as we came up with specific words we may be able to use in place of some more abstract words it is easy to fall back on.

This week was really beneficial in practicing the use of more specific words in the poems I write. This is a concept that is not always easy, but in poetry it seems to make more sense to use more specific words, as it gives more of a feel and allows the reader to really imagine what it is the writer is attempting to describe. The blues poems we had to work on over the weekend were definitely difficult to generate, as they required specific beats and lines in each stanza. This is where the musical contribution to poetry is very clear and is very exciting to see work in the way these poems are written.

This week's expression of music in the poetry we read and wrote this week really allowed me to interpret poetry in a different way then I may have in the past. I was able to recognize how the rhyming in each line was very successful in creating beats and how the lines we would normally just read by line could create this music we listened to from the blues poetry writers. Studying some of these different blues poems really allowed me to understand the chapter we read in MYOD on music. It really represented the way music can present itself in poetry, that may have even just been written for reciting, not expecting the beats to turn into music in some poetry cases.