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.