i am amazed. I used to always say i hated poetry. it was just a bunch of words splattered across the page made to ryhme. i mean, i knew that not all ryhmed, there r haikus, limericks, tankas, and ur plain old rhyme and of course heaps more. but i never liked them. they all sounded corny, fairytale-ish or in old english with all the 'where for art thou?' stuff. i would say i hated it.
but today, we have started this english assignment, which we have to get three poems, all relating to the same topic (e.g love, friendship, war, culture or something different) and take it apart, like find all the poetic devices (alliteration, onomatopeoia, etc) and find out what it really means, stuff like that. so basically just figuring out the authors thoughts on what he was thinking when writing the poem.
i chose to do 'racism' as my theme/topic/discourse (whatever u want to call it) and i was not looking forward to this assignment at all, but, i have read some of these poems, and thought about them, and they are so... powerful, strong and overwhelming. its truly amazing what they can get across in a few lines. even if it is 3 lines long (there was one like that) you can understand exactly how they feel and think.
i have completely turned. from poem non-carer to poem reader :)
i guess i might give other things that i have previously not liked a chance from now on!!
well i should get on with this assignment then ayye
BYE x
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