Blog Assignment #1:
1) Poetry is the feeling that you get when you express your deep thoughts and feeling in writing or lyrical versus.
2) To me if you’re going to write a poem you need to have a reason or a statement that can be expressed in your poem. A poem has to have passion behind it. Something that is not a poem would be something that is dry and has no real meaning behind it. It wouldn’t make you think or even make you want to express yourself.
3) Gwendolyn Brooks Gwendolyn Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1917 and raised in Chicago. She is the author of more than twenty books of poetry. In 1968 she was named Poet Laureate for the state of Illinois, and from 1985-86 she was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. She also received an American Academy of Arts and Letters award, the Frost Medal, a National Endowment for the Arts award, the Shelley Memorial Award, and fellowships from The Academy of American Poets and the Guggenheim Foundation. She lived in Chicago until her death on December 3, 2000.
Gary Soto Gary Soto was born in Fresno, California, in April, 1952, to working-class Mexican-American parents. He studied poetry at the University of California, Irvine, where he earned his MFA in 1976. Influenced by a variety of poets, including Pablo Neruda and Edward Field, Soto writes poems that focus on daily experiences, often reflecting on his life as a Chicano. "Gary Soto's poems are fast, funny, heartening, and achingly believable, like Polaroid love letters, or snatches of music heard out of a passing car; patches of beauty like patches of sunlight; the very pulse of a life."
These poems to me express deep thought that to me are some of the key essentials when it comes to poetry.