More about poetry (reading and writing)

Thanks for a terrific discussion of "Those Winter Sundays." You'll notice that part of what made so much discussion possible was that the poem didn't provide every detail; the gaps--the unspoken words and elusive elements of the characters' lives--allow space for the reader to both assume and wonder.

For next class, read pp. 25-42. You might also dip into the poems we skipped over and the poems from later in the new chapter. Keep looking for what's interesting, puzzling, or useful to you.

I do want you working to produce two poems of at least 8 lines each. Ideally, you'd have those for me by Monday. Then we could start reading your poems, as a class, on Wednesday.