Week four post

This week we read 3 poems by Sylvia Plath and the first 15 pages of The Plath Cabinet. These readings were particularly enjoyable to me. The thing that I found most fascinating was Plath's ability to make images so vivid and striking to my senses. The difference between abstract words and concrete explanations really came to life in Plath's poem. Having never lived during many of the years in which she wrote so creatively, I found myself able to relate on almost a personal level with many of the themes found in her poems.

I really enjoyed seeing how much even an amazing, professional poet developed throughout her poems; first she followed a structure much like how I prefer to write with line breaks and alternating rhymes and later developed in her own original style. It was intriguing to read Sylvia and see how even concrete examples, that tickle the senses, require several reads to fully understand the implications of its meaning across the entire poem. In so much of the poetry we have read to date, I have felt as though there were lines that I didn't understand. However, when reading Plath, its so easy to follow with her analogies and descriptions because they are so highly detailed. Its almost as if each line is its own separate beautiful image and when taking together creates an entire masterpiece of ideas and descriptions.

I have found that my writing of poetry has began to take on its own colors. I won't for a moment begin to think that I have found my proverbial "mo-jo" or dipped into the creativity river quite like the narrator depicted Plath of doing, however, I have found a new style in writing. I am really beginning to see how imitating poets can help to accomplish such a trick. I do not write poet on my own (outside of class that is) I do, however, write music to play along with my guitars. I have really found some creativity in doing so these last four weeks of classes. I am looking forward to seeing how much more my creativity improves by the end of the semester.