2nd Half City Eclogue

In the second half of the reading it was not as engaging as the first half. The section “Open” an interesting poem was on page 77 called “Engine.” The spacing in the poem does give a more dramatic phrasing. There is a lot of imagery within the poem. Overall I find this poem to be about an average workman’s life. One of my favorite lines in the poems is “into a gear you didn’t know would shift you can tell you runnin’ “. It compares the human body to an engine being taken into overdrive. It also refers to a suit case could symbolized a person’s mind. In the next section, “Ornithologies” on page 95 there is a short poem about the time boards at a station. There is a structural pattern of long line short line and repeat. One phrase that grabbed my attention was “metal winged panel.” In the last few sections, there was one poem called “The Counsel of Birds.” The paragraphs are in sets of four lines. This poem has a lot of personification. It brings alive the alarm because it cannot wait or shove down anything. Though I did not overall enjoy the second half of series of poems I found some gems in the ruff. 

City Eclogue Review

In the first section City Eclogue called City Eclogue held many poems that created vision or represented the culture of a city with negative outlooks. Some of the common words used in many of the poems were mirror, face, window, city, and eye. This leads me to find that many of them were descriptive poems describing a scene. A few poems I found interesting was on page 16 and 18. The poem "Words for It", in the first paragraph has a beautiful example of imagery. At the end of the poem has an interesting spacing between phrases. There is a more dramatic concentration on the first words. Going down one of the sides is a mini poem makes sense on there own. One of my favorite poems was a metaphor between humans and squirrels called "Sequoia sempervirens". Beyond a constant metaphor to me the spacing is very odd and leaves me to think I'm not sure what is trying to be done here.
In the following section Beauty's Standing the title doesn't seem to fit many of the poems who's main constant is describing divisions of blacks and white and violence. Commonly used words are water, feet, garbage, and job. This gives a feel of a more personal approach to what they are describing. Intriguing poems in this section where on page 43. Unnamed poem on 43 follows a pattern at first. The end of every 1 & 2 line match the ending, and then 3& 4 match. On the third section the lines go every other where the endings match. The last section is a complete change in style exposing a discrimination to African Americans.

Poetry Packet Revised

A poetry packet comprised of work from Shakespeare, Mullen, Berrigan, Hove, Swenson, Hughes, McHugh, Ramke, and Diskinson add had up and downs. To be the Shakespeare sonnets have a sense of timeless comparisons. Using metaphors involving the sun and roses will be seen on Earth till Humanity is wiped out. While in a Mullen recreation of Shakespears is era sensitive. Even people in our class did not know who Muzak the rapper was and within the last year there is no longer a Hostess Company to sell Twinkies. Berrigan plays with spacing in sentences and many word choices I find interesting to repeat. In poem XVI he repeats the words, closed air of the slow, ice, mud, doom, trembles, and heat. Taking the ordering of lines on a poem to another level Hove makes phrases on diagonals and up side down having the words with more excitement. Come of the shorter poems are from Swenson making the words he chooses very important and direct. Hughes is probably my least favorite with the using of slang and sound effects in her poem. It gives a unique sense to her poems and true emotion. McHugh's work is complex and half thought leaving the reader to think about what was said. Her first poem with taking words apart and redesigning them. Ramke writes longer poems with interesting phrasing like "thin walls were death to hide:". My favorite writer would be a traditional writer Emily Dickinson. Her poems are short with many similes and metaphors that help the reader to picture the comparison. She changes her pattern in many poems sometimes repeating the same word at the beginning like 377 to used the same vowel sound at the end of a phrase. This packet was diverse in the different ways to look at writing sonnets.

Intro to Me

There are many ways to look at the world and more ways to describe it. My major is Urban & Regional Planning. This choice to want to be a planner started early on in Middle School and hasn't changed. In high school, I was a thespian involved in our theatre program as Stage Manager most of the time. I love to be creative and innovative with different concepts and phrasing. At Eastern, I am the president of the PLACE Club. I'm excited to start this year and hope to go out with a bang at the end of the semester.