Write a 50-word paragraph that refers to your personal experiences with poetry. The experiences do not have to be at school, although they may be if you wish. Be specific please. Bring your printed work to class along with a printed copy of your chosen poem.
To help you find a poem, here are three online sources of quality poetry. Remember that you will need to defend the poem's quality in group work that day, so be sure to choose well.
Poems at Slate.com (each poem is read by the poet; a good way to decide if you like the way it sounds)
Canadian Poetry Online (from the University of Toronto library; a list of poets that links to poems from each one)
Poetry Daily Archive (alphabetical archive of poems by title; here you can look for an interesting title and see if you can find a poem you like)
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Poetry enriches my life. I assign my students to write poetry in order to understand it better. The result? Students often refer to writing a poem as the highlight of their semester. Their words provide a glimpse into the heart of what really matters in life. Poetry can do that!
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When I was a teen-ager, I got an assignment to write a very short poem. The poem had to be four verse
long and I spent my whole summer writing it. I comprehended that poetry is more than putting feelings into words. We have to be guide by certain rules to achieve a satisfying poem. Poetry is art.-58words.
I seldom read English poetry, but every time I read them, they always surprised me. I ever tried to compose the poems on the class in PALC, and these experiences let me believe that everyone can be a poet so long as he (she) has a poetic heart. A beautiful poem like wine can be intoxicated with it.
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When I was home, I had friend who writes poetry. She created ideas from a very simple activity. For me it was super natural. When she read it, I liked it. Otherwise I couldn’t understand it. After that time, I decided poetry is a gift.
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Actually, I only know few about English poems. As for Chinese poems, in my memory, most of them are for test, so I have to recite them again and again. It sounds boring. But those beautiful words, especially the love ones, surprise me from time to time, and make me yearn for a chilly romantic love story.
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Poetry usually gives me surprises. Even though I don’t understand at first, I still enjoy the rhythm. Reading poem is like digging the treasury. When I spend more time, I unpack the meaning more and realize that in depth. It also inspires my imagination and creates a picture in my mind. It is a magic language by telling story with just few words.
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I have a little experience with poetry, but I like to listen poetry from an author or artist. I like how poets express everything in such beautiful way. Maybe, everyone could write some poem by creating rhyme. However, I believe, to write a really good poem a person should have a natural talent and some special internal state. – 58 words
The first time I was interested in poetry when I was about eleven years old. The reason was I wanted to deliver some brief but meaningful messages through poetry. Later those years, I thought it prevented me from being active toward my favorite hobby (electrical designs). In fact it didn't prevent me, but I spent more time on my hobby. 60-words
Poetry is a specific way of the writers to show their thoughts and feelings. Moreover, it is a strong emotional connection between them. Long time ago, in Russia, I wrote some personal poems. I was young and fall in love; I wanted to leave my emotions on the paper. Nobody knew about it because it was my secret.
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My experience about poetry is not academic, and I learned it from the nature. The first time that I wrote a poem was fourteen years ago but not in school, in an empty room. I wrote lots of poem in Dari and some in English. It is quite a bite tasty experience to write the ideas in sweet words.
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Personal experience with poetry
The poems that I read most are Tang Poems. These poems were written in Tang dynasty and the rules were rigid (every poem had to be exact either twenty words or twenty eight words equally divided into four sentences and rhyme was also considered.). Thus, usually I need detailed explanations to help me understand them. However, after figuring out what had happened to the poet, I found that these poems are very emotional and when I read aloud, the sound was beautiful. –82 words
I have a little experience of reading English poetry. However,sometimes,I read Punjabi poetry when I feel stressed. I think poetry has a power to convey deeper thoughts in fewer words and poets create this magic through their imagination,emotions and selection of words.
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I enjoy reading poetry; especially, I realize the artistic conception at the last moment. Poetry looks simple but it is more challenging than other literary format. Writing a poem is a difficult task. To ponder every word through the rhythm, I have a hard time writing a poetry because my vocabulary is limited.
I have not much experience with poetry, but the last time that I experience it, I felt in love with it. It was beautiful for only use a little words to describe how are they feel. I finally believed that less is more.
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when i was a kid i use to listen poems in my country. but it's little bit different from here.in my country most of the poems are about the history and wars and maybe some about love.in here poems are about love and feels.i remember when i firt read poem in here it was in grade 10 and the poem was from Shakespeare. it took me a while to understand the poem.
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