So far I've been enjoying the poetry unit, because I love poetry. I've read a lot of nice poems like 'A Dream Within a Dream,' 'Still I Rise,' and 'As Soon as Fred Gets Out of Bed.' I've read a lot more poems since this unit began but those are the ones I chose to do my poetry analysis' over. The poems I tend to like the most are those dealing with subjects like the different meanings of love, enjoying life and all it has to offer, and questioning who you are and what is your purpose. I also like silly poems that are both simple and witty and make you smile and make you laugh. I just overall really like poetry. Even when I find that I don't really love or even like a poem, I still appreciate what it's saying and the insight it has to offer, because even though it doesn't really make me feel anything special, I know that it does to others because the quality of a good poem is in the eye of the beholder.
On another note, I'm getting annoyed at having to write a poetry analysis pretty much every single day. I'm finding it hard to keep up with all of them. I love poetry but I can't come up with an entire page of analysis for every single poem that I read. Poetry has to speak to me and inspire me. I don't want to just make up some crazy nonsense in order to satisfy a teachers requirements, sorry Mr. Mullins, because it lessens the value of the authors hard work and the value of what I personally feel towards the poem. I only want to write what the poem means to me and I can't force myself to get anymore out of it then what it gives me. Again, I blame a flawed educational system for trying to shape everyone into fitting there sad generic mold.
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