Week One.

For chapter one, I thought it was very interesting how the author talked about how a poet learnes from the poetry, works in it, and is inspired by it, ALWAYS. Chapter two goes on to talk about how music can be found in every aspect of poetry. It also talked about the different types of rhyme, how it does not always have to be a hard rhyme. But that there are many different types and most of them are not the concrete hard rhymes.

I thought it was really interesting, how it suggested that most poets pay lots of attention to how the music flows with the words. I never paid much attention to that. I did not think poets intentionally paid attention to it either. I always assumed poetry was just random crap that poets put together to try to say something inspirational. I am usually writing mostly about personal things, usually about the topic of love, because it is most interesting, and I find love to be a beautiful thing, a happy thing. I had some struggles doing the homework where we took a poem and tried to find the beat to it. I don't think I am good at finding the beats.

I think the artistic process tends to be random. I think for most poets, they have an experience and then they just right about it. I also think a lot of poetry is difficult to understand, and I wish they would just SAY what they were trying to get across to the reader. Instead of going some round about way of saying it, and then it doesn't make any sense. I also think that poetry could be good inspiration for artists. Like how in class we read the poem that used lots of description and put a picture in your head, it would be neat to paint or draw pictures that would go with a poem, so if you were listening to the poem you could look at a picture along with it.