♥ IT emergency lesson 2
Monday, June 29, 2009 -{'5:21 PM
Hey hey.. Haha 2nd day of IT on9 lessons
Will be touching on famous poets and stuff like that. ^^
Question: Choose a poet by going online to a couple of the internet sites such as Poets.org (Academy of American Poets website) or American Poetry Online. Blog on your favorite poet. Your entry should be approximately 400 words.
Answer: Hmm.. I would say that Robert Pinsky is my favorite poet. I find Robert intriguing as he uses figurative language in many of his poems and exaggerates and emphasizes on his main points, using words to play with our emotions like making us sad at one moment and happy at another. he also toys with the sounds and rhythms of sentences in his poems.
Another point that shows he is intriguing is from his interview with Encarta Yearbook. He arouse our interest when:
Encarta Yearbook asked, '' Do you see poetry flowering or withering as the next generation grows up in a world connected by the Internet? "
And he replied, '' Poetry seems to be flourishing in reaction to the fluidity and highly duplicable, mass quality of electronic media. I like my computer, my TV, my VCR, my CD player—but they are by their nature, each of them, inherently a mass medium. The CD performance happens in no one place, but is created electronically and can be multiplied indefinitely. The poem takes place in each reader's voice. We crave both. "
And he ended it with "The human appetite for art, I believe, is infinite."
This line shows his passion and motivation to poetry writing and his believe that poetry writing will be flourish in the years to come.
Who is he:
Robert Pinsky is an American poet and former Poet Laureate of the United States (1997-2000). He is known for his innovative, personal style, and his use of contemporary themes. Pinsky is a professor at Boston University where he teaches in the graduate creative writing program. His collection of essays:
Landor's Poetry was published in 1968 and was followed by other essay collections in 1977 with The Situation of Poetry and Poetry and the World (1988) which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. He received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in 1974 and in 1975 published his collection of poems, Sadness and Happiness. 3 poems done by the poet:Impossible To Tell by Robert PinskyOde To Meaning by Robert Pinsky
To Television by Robert PinskyIn
To Television, he describes about the television in his house. I esp like the 1st stanza:
Not a "window on the world"But as we call you,A box a tubeWhere he describes vividly what is a television and how it looks like.
In
Impossible To Tell, there's one line which I extremely fell in love with:
And brittle leaves that touch and die and sufferThe changing winds that riffle the gutter swirlThe interview is taken from:
http://encarta.msn.com/sidebar_461576156/interview_with_robert_pinsky.htmlHis Biography is taken from:
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/robert_pinsky/biography
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You have attempted to discuss the literary techniques used by Pinsky. He appears to be anti-mass media, dismissing it as "a box a tube". And do you know why the lines in Impossible to Tell provides a reaction from you? You are probably attracted to the internal rhyme "brittle leaves...riffle the gutter" and "suffer...swirl" created by the use of assonance.
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