Poetry Packet 5-15-12

        This week in creative writing we have been reading and discussing a poetry packet. the first page was some of the sonnets that Shakespeare wrote, i have always enjoyed how skillfully Shakespeare integrated sound and rhythm and words and concepts, as well as with his plays, how the deeper you dig the more you can find. anything that is left vague will be interpreted by each mind differently, which leads to some very interesting discussions on what different people "see" in the same piece of writing.
        On the page by Ted Berrigan (XV) i found it really interesting how he wrote his poem like a collage, to be read and understood from varying viewpoints. That is clever, because seeing things from different perspectives is what a lot of people in this time have trouble with, they can't picture and/or understand other ways of looking at the same thing. This concept is something i have worked hard to apply in my book, when you look at life in a 2D way, you are missing out on so much. At first his poem didn't make sense at all, reading in the way most people would, but when you read it from other ways, you see it come together better. i will definitely make note of how skillfully that was done, maybe i can use something like that in my own writings. when i write, i leave room for interpretation, but i also fear people not taking away from it what i want them to take away, so i feel the need to simplify it. what i will try to do and what i have been trying to do, is make my book read one way to the untrained eye, and read totally different to the open-minded.

        In an excerpt from Heather McHugh's work, a line caught my eye: "Eleven tons of hidden work, are always lurking inside words". I can see a few different ways that could be read. It could mean that there is so many meanings behind every word and every sentence that a lot of people never see, it could also mean that there is so much work that the author does to put their words together and express what they want to say. Or possibly both together? there are so many meanings for so many combinations of so many words, what you see on the surface, and what lies beneath.