“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words” -Robert Frost Hi everyone and welcome back to my 4th, and final, blog. When I started this unit, almost a semester ago, and learned everything we would undertake in these last few months, I honestly thought it was impossible. Yet …
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#3 The Poets Emerge
“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart” -William Wordsworth Hi everyone, At the time I wrote my last blog we were still doing a lot of looking at other people’s poetry, but over the last 6 weeks we’ve started focusing more on our own. At the end of last term, we had a …
#2 ‘Why’
“Poetry is the conversation your soul has with the world when you decide to start telling the truth.” -Anisa Nanduala Over the past few weeks a lot has happened in class, and my attitude towards poetry, as well as my beliefs about it have changed quite a bit. Since I last posted, we been to …
#1 Poetry 101
When I first heard we were doing poetry this semester, I was a little bit weary. I loved to read poetry and I could recite it fine, but when it comes to actually writing poetry, I wasn’t so confident. To me then, poetry felt like it had to be about big, emotive, real things. I …
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