Gail Hemmeter's How To Read Poetry

When choosing a poem, the reader is likely to be concerned with the diction of the poem. Diction is the choice of words that the author has chosen. The diction of a poem can make or break the reader’s ability to understand the poem, or to continue to read the poem after a few lines. A poem with a simple diction will keep the reader engaged while a difficult diction can frustrate the reader. For example, “When I consider how my Light is Spent and “Digging” diction is very differential.

The first poem in the collection is Collins’ own “Introduction to Poetry,” a humorous description of how people treat poems and a useful technique to explore poems. Tania Runyan wrote How to Read a Poem based on “Introduction,” and “poetry how-to” books are useful for a teacher who wants to move beyond exposure, or for a teacher whose students have read poems and are now demanding answers regarding them. Although her list is slightly dated now, Colleen Ruggieri’s favorite books and websites are interesting and useful to other teachers. An educator should not hail these books like Bibles, but students should be taught to explore poems while reading. Runyan’s guide is a great model because she explains the techniques thoroughly, provides her

Billy Collins’ “Introduction to Poetry” expresses a contemplative tone that underscores the speaker’s longing for readers to appreciate poetry with a open mind in order to showcase the lost opportunities many do not experience due to the impatience and demanding qualities society currently retains. In order to accentuate the profound influence poetry held on his life, Pablo Neruda’s “Poem” reflects on his first encounter with poetry through an introspective tone that brings forward to light how poetry allows its writers the freedom of self-expression in a setting with no

Starting a poem from a journal is one of the simplest and easiest stage. However, it is the essence of poetry and writing and general. Thus, this particular piece of advice cannot be overlooked; since, often writers find it innocuous or even silly. In other words, something that is not productive and it is fragmented. Indeed, when I look at my journal entries, I do not see the poetry nor I cannot put the story together.

Some poetry speaks louder to certain people more than others; society likes to connect on a personal level. For me, the song, “Yellow Brick Road” by Elton John had me connected on choosing my own path in life. The Song “Yellow Brick Road” has a lot of poetic meaning in it that takes a couple of times to listen to and to understand.

Name: Course Code: Instructor: Date: Billy Collins’ “Introduction to Poetry” This poem is exploring the subject of the Introduction to Literature of poetry as the means by which to study any form of a poem. There two viewpoints introduced that include the assessment of the speaker who depicts how he might want the audience to explore a poem; and the conclusion of the targeted readers who need to discover as fast as could reasonably be expected the meaning of the poem. The use of literary devices helps the poem take the shape it takes in the mind of the reader.

In the book An Accident of Hope, it goes through Anne Sexton’s therapy tapes to analyze the treatment as it related to her poetry. “That's not the issue. You don't understand it. You see, if you say am I impressed with your work, yes, it's very impressive. But you keep wanting me to be more interested in your poems than in you” (Orne).

However, prior to this exercise, Richardson provide an example with Sylvia Path’s “You’re.” This poem demonstrates non-human metaphors through lines such as “Trawling your dark as owls do/Mute as a turnip from

Dickinson’s Poems Analyzing Essay Everything has a deeper meaning to it if we really look into things and examine them carefully and logically. Emily Dickinson gave a deeper and more metaphorical meaning into her two poems,“We Grow Accustomed to the Dark” and “ Before I got my Eye Put out” through a literal perspective. The speaker is mostly talking about darkness and losing vision on a literal level.

The main idea of the poem is that the speaker is confronted with this fork in the road and must choose which road to encounter, which is similar to when people choose a certain path in life. “I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. ”- Frost People feel pressured to be popular, consequently, they follow the path instead of making their own path.

In “The Trouble with Poetry”, and “Introduction to Poetry” Billy Collins focuses on the issue of forced inspiration, and the lack of appreciation readers, and aspiring poets have for the feel of poetry. In “Introduction to Poetry”, Collins mentions that some poetry enthusiasts try too hard to find the meaning of a poem; to try and decipher it like some ancient hieroglyphics, that they forget that poetry is not an essay and does not necessarily have to have a distinct message. In stanza’s seven and eight, the speaker states that poetry should be felt, and that what one poem means to a group of people could have a completely different effect on another group. In stanza eight “Feel the walls” is the speaker’s ways of saying that one should feel a poem and let the poem speak to them, instead of searching for what they believe to be its true meaning.

"The Road less Traveled" its "The Road Not Taken", and the road not taken of course it 's the road he did not take; which means that the title passes over the "less traveled" road the speaker claims to have followed in order to foreground the road he never tried". The article also clarifies that "The title isn 't about what he did; it 's about what he didn 't do or is it"? The article still leave us with the thought of , did the poem take the road less traveled by or did he want to take the road less traveled by but didn 't? It seem as if frost never traveled anywhere and predicted he did. When he expressive the last thought of the road less travelled, Mr. Frost stated how he would love to tell the story of The Road

In “Introduction to Poetry”, Billy Collins attempts to communicate his feelings on the way that he believes poetry should be approached, as an object to be probed, and appreciated as a form of art. For example, the poem tells a student to “press an ear against its hive” (4). This means that Collin wants readers of poetry to pay close attention to the rhythms of poetry, by listening to the hive, which is a metaphor for the sounds of words in a poem. Collin contrasts this with “beating it with a hose” (15), a more brute force and ultimately less effective way to analyze poetry. This alternative view of poetry helps to create the mood that the writer intended.

Choices in life The two poems “Dream Deferred” and “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost and Langston Hughes, both discuss life decisions. Each poem talks about the regret they feel at the end of their choices and the questions they have. Langston Hughes clearly had questions through out his life about not choosing the right path. Robert Frost only seemed to worry about the road he never took. In both of the poems they talk about what could have been if he chose the other path.

“The Odyssey”, by Homer is a story of adventures, obstacles, mythical creatures and the conflicts of the main character Odysseus. Homer’s writing is unique compared to other Authors writing. Many people write their own version of a piece of the Odyssey, like Margaret Atwood when she wrote the poem “Siren Song”, These two pieces are talking about the same topic but, they have different themes, rhythms, tones and meanings. Both of the pieces are talking about the “Lotus Eater”. This is an island where people get hypnotized or their priorities get changed, they don't want to leave there and go home they want to stay there forever.