Chapter 4 Aha blog response on Poetry

 Poetry is one of the hardest   genres to teach , learn and  sometimes understand. Many  people are intimidated  by  poetry  because it is not always straight forward and contains several elements  that are  herder to teach. as  chapter four states " defining poetry is perhaps the most difficult thin about poetry. It is easier to say what poetry does  than to describe what it is.We know that poetry can make us chuckle or laugh aloud, startle us with insight, or surprise us with its clarity. some poems  express feelings that we did not even know we had until we read them, presenting the familiar in a way that surprises." Poetry in and of itself has several different genres that  take on forms of their own. there are several different types of poems and  and just as many  different ways  to write poetry.
  There are several ways to  assess the quality of poetry. Individual poems  should demonstrate content that is interesting to the reader while being understandable by the intended reader. The language in poetry is innovative  and pays close attention to the choice of words and the use of poetic devices to enhance the meaning of the  ideas being presented. The form  and or structure  are used to help the reader gain insight into the  poetic subject or the overall mood of the poem that they are reading.  In anthologies there is a purposeful   selection  of quality of the  poetry that is being included in the poems. The arrangement of the poems in the anthologies is  used to  create  a logical progression throughout the    book that captures the reader and smoothly moves the reader  from one poem to the next.
I really liked this picture because it says  poets are people who have conserved their eye as children. to me this means that they have never lost their childlike wonder and imagination  about the world!
      During our class this week  we  focused on mother goose rhymes. I really enjoyed focusing on this  part of poetry to see how the depictions  of the rhymes have changed over time and how the rhymes have had negative  depictions that at one time may have been acceptable are not acceptable today. It was also interesting to see the  changes  in the illustrations  over time to stay  current with the time period and representative of the people during the time period. The  rhyme that I focused on was  "The Old Women Who Lived In a Shoe". One thing that I found interesting about all of the pictoral depictions of the woman was that she was always in a dress witch  in my mind refers to an older depiction  of the way  women used to be.  it shows  how  women stayed in the house and took care of children. It also shows how women  used to wear only dresses.