GAWD I'M SUCH A NERD. But after this poetry unit and doing poetry for Speech(not to mention that my English teacher this semester is absolutely AMAZING), I've developed a huge respect for poetry. Before, I only saw words. Now, I just get caught up in the beauty of the words, and how easily they can shape into the mold of your life. Emily Dickinson's writing always seemed so abstract and senseless, but then...if you actually analyze it, its amazing. I crammed a 3 page essay today after school in two hours on analyzing a poem of hers. It was incredibly stressful, and I'm pretty sure I failed, but it was still eye-opening. [Anonymous] was right, poetry does qualify as one of those things that makes sense when it seems like almost nothing else does.
When Libby was talking about her fashion history class up at U of M, she mentioned how every style was inspired by something. Everything has to come from somewhere, has to have some sort of motivation. It's comforting to know that music and poetry, two incredibly intimate things, came from somewhere with enough heart and raw emotion to produce such incredible, moving work.
We all have skills, we all have talent. We all have tools. But it's what you do with what you've got that makes all the difference.
I resolve to get all As this semester. No more apathy! :)
^---dude, I really hope this works.
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omg we're doing poetry in school too :]
ReplyDelete"We all have skills, we all have talent. We all have tools. But it's what you do with what you've got that makes all the difference."
^ i like that :]