Poetry Not For Me

I have not enjoyed this poetry unit very much. I have never been a big fan of poetry. I did give it a chance and I really tried to make the best of it. I must say when I logged in after break and saw "more poetry" I was like AHHHH. I have been putting off the homework and having trouble with the writing assignments because I first off don't really want to do it and secondly have trouble understanding it. I have been getting help from my friends who make music because poetry and music coincide. Meter, feet and rhyming are all pertinent to music as well. I understand poetry is part of literature and why we have done it, I just haven't enjoyed it. I have trouble with metaphor, irony, determining meter, etc. I am happy that I read some of the works of Whitman, Dickinson and Poe as I have heard very much about them but never read much of their work. I did like reading "O Captain, My Captain" and "Annabel Lee" but that was about it. I think they were fairly easy poems to read and I see why they are classics. I think if poetry is a way of people expressing themselves then that is great I just don't think it's for me or my of expressing myself. As I said I am happy to have been exposed to some of the classics because I most likely would not have done it on my own. However, I am even more happy that the poetry unit now over!

Submitted by Christina Carbone