Understanding Poetry
1. Self-reflection: What has been your experience with poetry?
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2. Watch the following video and read the
following article:
- Compare the answers
giving in both the video and the text and write a summary that answers the
question "What is poetry?"
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3. Read the poem Humanity I love you by E.E.
Cummings
- Compare the answers giving in both the video and the text and write a summary that answers the question "What is poetry?"
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Why do we say this is a poem? What is your response to this poem?
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ReplyDelete1- Poetry for me has been that way of externalizing whatever is too big for me to contain (as long with music). Whenever is read a poem from any author, I don’t feel like reading. Oddly, I feel like if I was just listening to the person speaking to me. It’s this unilateral dialogue where I come across the writer’s feelings and try to get the meaning of his work. Also, when I try to write poetry I certainly will not write anything I don’t feel. When I finish writing, I feel an instant relief. It’s like whatever toxic feeling was inside of me left me and was exorcised into the lines.
ReplyDelete3- It expresses the feelings of the author, and how he struggles to understand the nature of humans. It is written in prose, without minding the structure but the meaning.
Response: Human nature cannot be seen as an isolated behavior, because the environment, relationships, society, and more influence such behavior. However, E. E. Cummings captures the essence of what seems to be a contemporary person who struggles with what society imposes him/her and how easily he says humans can be “controlled” by media. It is a fine work that reflects circumstances back then that repeat nowadays.
You have good ideas. I agree that poetry writing is liberating. Very good ideas on Cummings.
DeleteJosé Mario
ReplyDelete1. Poetry honestly for me was something useless, maybe because I had never been interested in Reading that, however once I start getting into that campus I can say that now it is different, I appreciate it and it is not seen as something boring now. The funny thing about poetry is how you might feel identified with it, and sometimes you have to puzzle out what is happening in the poem. I have to accept the maybe there is not playfulness in me when I have had to read it, but little by little it will increase. I hope to continue Reading poetry, otherwise the interest on it will depletes.
3. The poem shows emotions of the autor and it is in prose. It is about the how the man tries to convence himself that the human behavior is natural with no influece by external factors but it should not be understood like that because exist other elements that contribite to conform all the human nature as one.
Remember that the author is not necessarely the speaker of the poem. What can of emotions does the speaker show?
DeleteLuis Bolaños
ReplyDelete1.I have had a really good experience with poetry. I took some courses at cuna about literature, and one of the requirements was to create a poem, i remember that I spent a lot of time doing it, but it was a great experience because I understood how difficult is to create but also I learn how marvelous is to write your feelings or thoughts and put them together in an organize and fancy way, share your perspective about a certain topic and let the people read it is an unique feeling....
3. The author is trying to explain the human nature, but try to explain it from a perspective that it is not influence by nothing, when I consider that the human behavior is delimited by many aspects like environment, social status, economy and some others, and all of those aspects create the human behavior or nature
"that is not influenced by anything"
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1.In my case, I have read many poems when I was in Highschool and in some English courses. I remember that I used to spent a lot of time studying and understanding some of them. In that time, I assure that It was really hard to understand it. But within time I realized that every poem had a purpose and a feeling. I think that it has been the best part of reading poem. Since, you can appreciate what a author wants to say and express through simple or complex words. Sharing thoughts are important when you talk about poetry.
ReplyDelete3. Poem: expresses feelings, use of imagination, it is in prose
Through the poem we can undertand some points such as human nature as the center of life. As a center, human can controll its destiny and behavior. However, this world, humanity is managed through different economical, ethical, and consumists factors. So that, the poem show what the author gives a deep prespective about how we are
I don't understand what you mean by human nature at the center of life.
DeleteThis is a poem because it expresses feelings and it is full of emotions as well. To me the response would be that the speaker is resentful and somehow with humanity because of the last line, it says " I hate you" so, how come the speaker is going to hate humanity unless the speaker is angry or resentful with it. Emotions can be seen in the author or in the speaker at the moment of reading as well. this is what I see.
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DeleteMy experience with poetry has been different and hard because in spite of it has taught me things for life it has been painful for me in the sense that I could hardly understand the different poems and their meaning. I know now that poetry can make us laugh, cry or scream because it is full of endless feelings. Perhaps the most important thing is that when you read poetry you can actually feel and see not only the author's feeling or emotions but also the speaker itself.
ReplyDeleteThe sentence: "My experience with poetry has been different and hard because in spite of it has taught me things for life it has been painful for me in the sense that I could hardly understand the different poems and their meaning" should be broken down and the idea explained further.
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ReplyDelete1.My experience with poetry was given for the first time when in High school. I remember that time I read some poetry books in Spanish that my sister had. This motivated me to try to make some on my own, to the point where I participated in a competition at the high school where I got the bronze medal. Also because of this I remember some class mates asked me to write for them some poems to give them to their girlfriends.After that I started to fill a notebook with some of them.
In English I have not really had the opportunity to read books of poetry, I have only read piece of them in some courses when teachers decided to share them with us.
That's good, I hope you keep writing.
DeleteKarlina
ReplyDelete1. Well, I have had a very pleasant experience with poetry this due to the act that since I was little my parents, specially my father, made me love them. Back then a bunch of books were bought, and like three of them (which happened to be my favorite ones at the time) were about poetry. I clearly remember one that was like a compilation of poems from various authors. I learned by heart poems like Hombre by Jorge Debravo and Cultivo una rosa blanca by José Martí, and I tried really hard to learn Margarita by Rubén Darío, but it is quite long. But it was not until last year that I learned about Mario Benedetti; he's got a very natural, realistic yet "romatic" way of expresing everyday's situations that happen to me and you.
I simply love poetry :)
I am glad you love it. Keep reading it.
DeleteSayli Vargas Pérez.
ReplyDeleteThe first time I had the opportunity to appreciate poetry was in high school. It was this teacher who really wanted her students to feel and exclaim poems. I think she accomplished her purpose. After reading many famous poems and analyze them, my classmate and I started making up and writing down new ones in order to express each other our feelings. This was very romantic, and I will never forget it. However, after high school time, poetry has not been as much part of my life. I think it is because of the full time motherhood job I have. Nevertheless, I star reading poetry again, but this time in a different language.
3- “Humanity I love You” is a poem because the author is uttering about a subject in life “Humanity”. Also, there is an overflow of emotion and feelings from the author, and these feelings can be shared by many people too. In the same way, in a poem, the author uses his intellect and imagination to compress his feelings into words. Likewise, this is a poem because it expresses ambiguity. It means that the author lets the readers an amount of freedom to navigate inside the poem.
My response to this poem is that the author uses the phase “I love you” in a sarcastic way because he expresses in every stanza the reasons why he hates humanity. The author says that people cares more about success than the necessity of their fellows. Also, the author says that humanity do not think by themselves, they just go according to what the materialistic world says. Similarly, the poem tells that humanity is forgetting the real sense of life, and they do not appreciate special people who are around them. In conclusion, E.E. Cummings wrote a poem about human beings nature many years ago. However, this human nature has not changed or evolved in that sense at this point in life.
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ReplyDelete3. It is described as a poem because it is written in prose . It also doesn't have regular rhymes or rythym. In other words, the author decided to write it with the technique of free verse. In this poem the author show to the reader his feelings and ideas about the world,and the way the people pay more attention to the personal success than the help the others need as we can see in the first stanza.
ReplyDeleteRESPONSE: The behavior of human beings often goes hand in hand with the life lessons that parents give their children when they are children, these thoughts usually change depending on the type of social class where this family belongsFor example, It could happen when people who have a good economic situation , can feel obsession to increase their personal benefits regardless of price that they have to pay. On the other hand E. E. Cummings describes to the reader, with a degree of sarcasm,his real feelings about society's beliefs, their behaviour, and he is able to show us how the selfishness of the humanity resists change despite of the passage of time
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DeleteKarlina
ReplyDelete3. When we think about poems we think about romantic words used to describe or talk about corny situations or feelings; I also used to believe that a poem had to strictly follow a very difficult pattern to achieve. Yet, poems like "Humanity I love you" are used to express with certain sarcasm a concept or an understanding. Even though this poem does not mind rhythm, it does contain stanzas which are composed by four lines each.
I would say that is the way humanity is: contradictory. You love it for what it is, yet you cannot help hating it because of those same features that make you love it. Humanity owns an innumerable amount of qualities that make it unique, but we seem to forget how to use them. We do pawn them in the pursuit of other less important things. We sabotage our own existence, and sit to wait for death.
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ReplyDelete1. I remember taking a course “creative writing” in which one had to write anything we wanted to. I loved to write poems because it is the way my feelings can play with the letters and create beauty. Poetry is a way of letting my feeling run, play, laugh or cry for a while; in addition, something I love from writing poems is that it is very personal. Actually it’s funny the way you express a feeling with almost no words sometimes they’re not even necessary to express them. Writing a poem shows the connection among my soul, my heart and my hands.
ReplyDelete3. This is a poem because the author has expressed his feeling about the “Humanity” or society. How difficult is to deal or to fit into what is considered “standard”. Society is one of the most powerful units that establishes rules for every single thing in the world; how to walk, how to dress, what to eat, how to behave, how to work among others. E.E Cummings expresses his hate towards humanity for being so selfish. Eventually, that is what it is and we can see it these days. We are living in a selfish life with no future.
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DeleteMelissa Jinesta
ReplyDelete1. According to my experience with poetry, I remember when I was in elementary school. In fourth grade, I guess, we started studying poetry. The poems we covered that time were simple and short. Once in high school, the poems were more and longer, the authors were varied, and the analysis was deeper. I really enjoyed reading poems, but sometimes I used to understand something completely different that other classmates did. It was kind of crazy! However, I think that is such a nice characteristic of poetry. when you read, it is possible to see it from any perspective, and even when the interpretations may vary, there is always a special moral for everybody.
1. Self-reflection: What has been your experience with poetry?
ReplyDeleteMy experience with poetry is not that much. From my perspective, I only have the basic knowledge since poetry is not just writing following a format, rhythm, or structure, but poetry also includes feelings, emotions, events, dedications, and originality that need to be expressed through writing, and readers will have different points of view. For me poetry is an art and even though I do not have much experience, I have read different poems and I like most of them.
3. Why do we say this is a poem? What is your response to this poem?
This is a poem because the writer is expressing his point of view and feelings about humanity. The writer is using his own words to show others how he sees the world, and how he hates humanity because of bad acts and injustices many people do. We are able to catch through his writing the inconformity he has with humanity, and that is the sense of a poem.
My response to this poem is that humanity sometimes gets out of control just for their own interests. For me it is also true that we are all human beings but selfishness is creating differences that make humans to treat each other as bad creatures from another planet.
Juan Gabriel Zuñiga Segura
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Delete3. “Humanity I love you” is a poem because it makes a comparison between the humanity and the different social actions and behaviors that describe us as human beings in a certain situation in different contexts. In addition, the author shows through the writing his deepest feelings and emotions about how much he loves and hates humanity for the same reason: contradictory human actions.
ReplyDeleteThat's actually no explanation of why it is a poem. A poem has to do not only wih content but also with form.
Delete1. Self-reflection: What has been your experience with poetry?
ReplyDeleteMy experience was extremely poor; I just took two classes at high school. They were really good, but then the system at high school does not allow those classes. It was an interesting experience because we got used to read simple sentences; moreover, when we read poetry it made us think a little bit more about what we were reading. It was like describing every single detail, it made me feel part of the place that was described. (Leonardo Peña Naranjo)
2. Why do we say this is a poem? What is your response to this poem?
We say that this is a poem because it is written in prose. The author links some aspects of nature with feelings. This poem represents for me a criticism because the author tries to focus on the things that must be really important for us. How quick we forget and get disconnected from the real life. (Leonardo Peña Naranjo)
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DeleteIn my case, poetry has always been one of my favorite genres in literature. I really enjoy from reading it and analyzing it by my own conjectures. The only thing that i love more than reading poetry is writing it. Poetry frees me from my own fears, and allows me to see the world with hope. In poetry I can see who I am and discover what I really want. It makes me feel the hidden inner strength that I usually forget exists in me. Poetry has been my best partner in the hardest episodes of my life..
ReplyDeleteHumanity I love you
ReplyDeleteIn my perspective, the author is condemning how stupid and contradictory society behaves. Definitely, the author’s object of hatred is this absurd society’s contradiction, and sarcasm has been his allied in the poem.
Cummings denounce that humanity concentrates efforts in sticking out the falling down and underestimates that rising.
The author shows rejection towards the way humanity reinforces limits and frontiers, instead of supporting unity since we all are humans independently from our nationality.
The poet is mad at how humans face their problems and necessities by the easiest solution: finding an elixir to forget.
Cummings hates humanity, because he knows that even we the readers of the poem will not do anything to change our attitude.
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DeleteThank you! ^_^
DeleteWhy is it a poem?
ReplyDeleteEasy. Because when I read it, I felt like I was reading one.
My response to the author:
History has shown that our behavior is contradictory to our nature. All this contradiction in our lifes can be summarized in one conclusion: we still have not understood that we must love in every decision we make.