This week’s reading was beneficial in learning how to annotate several poems. Our class read How To Fall In Love With Your Father, by Ross Gay. As we annotated the poem, our class was introduced to the command style Gay uses throughout his poem. This style gives the poet the ability to really enforce their own opinions by using the words “do” and “don’t”. The reader then receives the point that the poet is making. The way the poet uses his/her own words shows their emotion and feeling. It is still hard for me to believe that there really is so much emotion in poetry.
There are so many things a person can learn, just by reading one simple poem.
Throughout the readings, our class also learned how poems use apostrophe, synesthesia, personification, and comparison. Making Your Own Days brings out the pleasure in reading and writing poetry. Class after class I find myself becoming more and more interested. It is amazing how many styles there are and how each are used several different ways to form a poem. Currently, I am searching for a poem to annotate. I am pretty excited to read more poems to continue exploring poetry and all of its different forms.
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