Poetry Response Essay

In poems six through ten, I found many of the poems to have the same values and things that are important to me in them. The authors expressed many emotions, used comedy, and drew the readers’ attention to certain significant lines in the text. Each of the authors chose different ways to write their poems but in some of them the way they were written was part of the poem. Poems six through ten appealed to me more than one through five mostly because these were easier to understand and I found similar values as mine in the poems. Each one still carried a message in it somewhere even if some people interpreted it differently. The sixth poem we read, “Reality and Appearance”, I saw it as they were talking to God. However, some people may have

In this poem, it is written from a dogs’ perspective about how he is treated by his owner. It is written as the dog is saying that some things that the humans may think are funny or cute are the opposite to the animal. Animals are extremely important to me because they provide companionship and unconditional love when needed most. They can change your day around with just their presence. The lines “I am the dog you put to sleep, as you like to call the needle of oblivion” (1-2) and “when I licked your face, I thought of biting off your nose” (5-6). The lines spoke to me because the dog is talking about his feelings towards his owner and how he was put to sleep. However, at the end is when the author tries to be comical and says, “the dogs in poetry, the cats and the others in prose”

At first I was confused about what was going on but after reading it a few times through I was able to pull a couple things from the poem. In “Discontents in Devon”, the person in the poem is working on something but is sad while doing it. But later in the poem he says that even though he is sad, he is still doing great work. The lines that stood out to me were “where I have been, and still am, sad…, yet justly too I must confess, I ne’er invented such ennobled numbers for the press”(3, 5-7). In this poem, doing great work was shown to be important which is an important thing in my life as