Thursday, January 7, 2016
Harryette Mullen, Rolf Jacobsen, Homero Aridjis, Dylan Thomas, Emily Dickinson, and William Blake
As with the previous post, find one line that speaks to you from a poem by Harryette Mullen, Rolf Jacobsen, Homero Aridjis, Dylan Thomas, Emily Dickinson, or William Blake, and provide a brief explanation as to why that line stands out for you.
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My favorite line came from Rolf Jacobsen's poem, "Cobalt." I enjoyed the entire piece, but the line I chose as my favorite is the very last line where the speaker asks, "Which one will you make yours?" I found it interesting that Jacobsen decided to have the speaker directly address the reader. I feel that this technique creates a connection with the work. The speaker defamiliarizes the idea of colors by including personification and then asks the reader to look at them in this new way, which really made me think.
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My favorite line came from Rolf Jacobsen's "Cobalt", "but even closer to thoughtful Cobalt with her distant eyes and untrampled spirit". This was my favorite line and my favorite poem because it takes things that are so known to us like colors, things we literally see everyday. I thought it was interesting how the author defamiliarized colors into something completely different, people, people with distinct personalities.
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All of the poems caught my attention with their diction and formation of words so it was very difficult to choose a single line out of all. I decided that the lines “When the stars threw down their spears and water’d heaven with their tears” from William Blakes “The Tyger” stood out to me simply because of the use of imagery. The way stars are personified into throwing spears and crying tears made it seem as though I was imagining a work of art. I am sure that there is a deeper meaning behind those lines but I just cannot seem to figure it out. I just imagined shooting stars and a rainy sky, and then it mentions the creator of the lamb and asks if “he” is the one who made the tiger right after the visual imagery of the stars and sky. I imagine that this poem is asking the tiger who possibly created such a fearful and powerful beast and wonders if the creator was proud of his work. The poem seems to see the tiger as a paradox in how it is both terrifying and captivating.
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My favorite line comes from Rolf Jacobsen’s “Cobalt,” where the speaker depicts, “but even closer to thoughtful Cobalt with her distant eyes and untrampled spirit.” Because this line heavily utilizes personification in the description of the color cobalt, the speaker brings about a sense of unrelenting closeness to the color, itself, which is given human characteristics through its description as well as the capitalization of its name. I enjoyed this line because the speaker effectively utilizes characteristics of the visual appearance of the color in order to provide it with humanlike attributes, which continues in the speaker’s depiction of walking together throughout the remainder of the poem. Before reading this poem, I would not have thought that one can be so close to certain colors and have such deep feelings towards them – which ultimately drew me in to the poem, itself, as the personified description of a mere color in this particular line was effective in doing.
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My favorite line is from "Cobalt" by Jacobsen.
ReplyDeleteThe line is:
"I've very close to young Crimson, and brown Sienna
but even closer to thoughtful Cobalt with her distant eyes and untrampled spirit."
The visual imagery I get from the Cobalt being personified is very powerful. I can see the blue/purple color of it which makes me visualize a meadow that I saw when I visited Hawaii. It was full of such vibrant colored exotic flowers. I remember the flower that stood out to me most were the blue poppies - they were the purest shade of cobalt blue. The spicy scent seemed to clear my head, it was like they were keeping me opened up to the beauty around me. It was mesmerizing. When ever I'm feeling blocked, I remember that meadow... It's my happy place.
I guess that's the reason I fell in love with this poem: the different types of imagery Jacobsen uses takes me back to my happy place.
My favorite poem was "The Tyger" by William Blake. I enjoyed his use of rhyme and imagery. This poem seemed to be speaking about the creator of this strong and fearful creature. The line that stuck out the most to me was "Did he who made the Lamb make thee?" The lamb is commonly used to refer to Jesus and therefore, this line is referring to God. At first, the poem was a little hard to comprehend but that line made the poem easier to understand. Blake is asking who was so magnificent that were able to create this terrifying and deadly creature. Then asked if the creator is proud of its creation. Overall, I really enjoyed reading this poem and trying to understand what Blake was trying to say.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite line is from the poem "Sleeping With The Dictionary" by Harryette Mullen, reading, "In the dark night's insomnia, the book is a stimulating sedative awakening my tired imagination to the hypnagogic trance of language." This is my favorite line out of the collection of poems because the statement is alive with so many different states consciousness that the human body goes through. The line includes the contradiction "a stimulating sedative" which works to highlight the awakening and dreamlike aspect of how language and words can transcend anything concrete into a living imaginative abstract. This entire poem was very enjoyable to read because it connected the idea of a dictionary full of words with different states of mind like sleep, being awake, and every sexual situations, making the usual boring dictionary into something breathing, creative, and fun. I also loved how the poem included many almost foreign words that the reader might potentially have to look up in a dictionary to find the meaning.
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My favorite line came from the poem "The Tyger." The poem captivated readers when it began with a powerful energy and imagery of the tiger as well as the rhythm and rhyme. The poem alluded to many Christian beliefs like heaven, hell, and the falling of the angels. My favorite line was "When the stars threw down their spears And water'd heaven with their tears:" because it illustrated the time when Lucifer fell down from heaven and other angels followed. The stars represented these angels, and the spears represented their loyalty to God. The "water'd heaven" expressed God and his angel's melancholy for losing their beloved. I loved how specific and loud this line and even the whole stanza was because it made the poem more clear with Christian connotations. The powerful imagery of the poem painted a clear picture for the reader to envision. It reminded me of a dark poem that children would possibly chant without understanding the reference made.
ReplyDeleteFrom Mullen's poem, my favorite line was, "The alphabetical order of this ample block of knowledge might render a dense lexicon of lucid hallucinations." I loved how her phrasing was littered with assonance and consonance, yet still had a methodical flow, especially the last few words, "a dense lexicon of lucid hallucinations". She also broke from the typical diction, which added to the feel that this was a poem about the dictionary and extravagant words
ReplyDeleteFrom the poem by Aridjis, the line "...but I believe it to be petrified music and cities, symphonies built out of time..." is my favorite line out all of the assigned poems because it presented cities in an entirely new light. Thinking of each building as a note, it is not a far stretch of the imagination to think of the layout of any city to be a wonderful composition that is self-harmonizing. Converting traditional imagery to audio imagery was immediately defamiliarizing not only for the poem but for any city that comes to mind.
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My favorite lines of the poems came from the work "Goethe Said that Architecture" by Homero Aridjis. The lines that stood out to me were "Musical streets didn't concern him either, although man slips via these walkable rivers into old age, love, the night." I really liked these lines because Aridjis earlier states that "architecture is frozen music" and refers to symphonies being built out of time; therefore, I see this meaning that architecture is made from music and music is made of time. so looking back on my chosen lines, I feel that Aridjis is saying that mankind walks through time unaware and unconcerned of time. Man walks through time easily falling in love, enjoying simple things of life, and slipping into old age without realizing. These lines were full of meaning, but I loved how they were written to seem more simple and beautiful than that.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite poem was The Tyger. It had great imagery and had some religion connected. My favorite line was "What the hammer? what the chain," because it was like the person wanted to cuss but wanted to be respectful. It makes you feel like you know what the person is going through. It can also mean that the person is confused with what God. Maybe everything isn't working out and questioning him. I loved how William Blake wrote this poem. I can imagine it very clearly.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite line in the poem's was from The Tyger by William Blake. " Tyger Tyger burning bright, In the forests of the night:" I love this line because it sets the tone of the poem in the beginning and end. Its like that burning desire to overcome the darkness that's deep inside everyone even when darkness from the unknown is surrounding and fierce.
ReplyDelete~Marqualla Thomas
Though the enigmatic rhyme from Blake and Dickinson's poems captivated my attention and provided a clearer indication of the authors' narratives, my favorite line was from Mullen's poem.
ReplyDeleteSpecifically, the line "in the dark night’s insomnia, the book is a stimulating sedative, awakening my tired imagination to the hypnagogic trance of language," captivated me personally as I felt as I could relate to the author on a personal level. Books and literature in general awaken our senses often compelling lively and engaging imagery which can be greatly preoccupying during dry afternoons. Additionally, this line contributes to the poems playful play on diction and sound.
My favorite line in "Cobalt" by Jacobsen is "Colors are words' little sisters. They cannot becoome soldiers." I liked this line because of the personification of colors. Colors are feminine and emotional in comparison to their word siblings. Colors should stay at home and paint the lives of their loved ones.
ReplyDeleteThe favorite line i found this week was in Sleeping With the Dictionary. Mullen writes "The alphabetical order of this ample block of knowledge might render a dense lexicon of lucid hallucinations". this line spoke to me because it describes what happens to many people as they may read. As you go through the book in alphabetical order, for me at least, as i read i visualize images in my head. This line almost sums up the point of the poem, that the dictionary is a huge book full of knowledge and clear explanations.
ReplyDeleteOne of the most interesting lines for me was in the poem Sleeping with the Dictionary. Harryette Mullen writes, "To go through all these procedures, groping in the dark for an alluring word, is the poet's nocturnal mission." I chose this line because I really enjoyed the image she was able to create. The idea of a poet/writer being a "nocturnal" animal is definitely something that I can relate to. A lot of my own work is done late at night.
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My favorite line came from the poem "Sleeping with the Dictionary"; the line is "In the dark nights insomnia, the book is a stimulating sedative, awakening my tired imagination to the hypnagogic trance of language." I favored the line because it describes the dreamlike state words can take you to but also at the same time the poem describes how words can wake you up and bring your mind to life. I enjoyed reading all the poems but I favored Mullen's because she takes an ordinary dictionary, that is usually described as a boring read, and makes it full of imagination.
ReplyDelete- Arcely Ramos
"A versatile partner, conversant and well-versed in verbal art, the dictionary is not averse to the solitary habits of the curiously wide-awake reader."
ReplyDeleteThis was my favorite line in Mullen's "Sleeping with the Dictionary" for a multitude of reasons. As people, I feel like we are constantly looking for conversation and verbal affirmation, and I believe there is a lot of power in conversation. However, I never thought of being able to have conversation with a dictionary. As an English major, and I'm sure many of my colleagues can relate to this as well, we generally believe that reading and writing is a very fulfilling type of "conversation." However, I have never given the dictionary a shot when I am struck with insomnia.
On a more serious note, I love the subtle personification and little doses of tactile imagery going on throughout this poem. The recurring image of insomnia is something very relatable, and I think it was used very effectively; similarly, I enjoyed the dreamy, almost romantic-like language. It was definitely my favorite poem in this batch.
My favorite line comes from the poem "Goethe Said that Architecture" by Homero Aridjis. The line reads "Goethe said architecture is frozen music, but I believe it to be petrified music and cities, symphonies out of time." I loved this line because of my interpretation of the metaphors. I believe that the speaker is claiming that there are many things in the world, even random things like architecture, that are as much of a work of art as symphonies are. We notice all the hard-work, fine attention to detail, and patterns present in symphonies, because we watch the music being constructed. However, when it comes to constructing buildings, we do not notice all the patterns, rhythms, intricacies, or creativity, because we do not watch it being constructed. In a nut shell, I believe that the speaker is claiming that creativity is being placed into more activities than we thought.
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My favorite line came out of the poem "Cobalt" by Rolf Jacobson is "Colors are word's little sisters. They can't become soldiers." This line is good because it shows how even tho colors can't speak they can still say a thousand words. Colors are just as important as words are because they help words out by painting a picture. Colors are very underestimated compared to words.
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My favorite line was from Geothe Said that Architecture by Homeri Aridjis. The line was, “cities, symphonies built out of time, concerts of visible forgetting.” I like this line because it calls back to the first line “ architecture is frozen music.” And builds upon that metaphor. A city is the work of hundreds of architects, their work lasting forever (or at least log after the death of their designer) in our collective consciousness but also simultaneously fading away. Wear and tear throughout the years that leads to these buildings being forgotten and sometimes destroyed to be replaced by newer buildings, different music. One can document the life of a building from their prime to their eventual state of disrepair. Cities are made of these buildings therefore making them “concerts of visible forgetting.” I think this line spoke to me because it made me think just of how temporary everything we do is. Humans have a desire to be remembered, whether it be by a few close ones or by hundreds, and one way to ensure that we leave our mark on this earth is through art. Music and architecture although different mediums of art are art all the same and through them artists can make their mark, which one can only hope will last but most likely won’t.
ReplyDelete- Stephanie Borges
My favorite line was "The night sky and the southern oceans," from the poem "Cobalt". I especially love this line because of the vivid visual imagery. When I think of the night sky, I think of all the stars and the moon shining so bright on the quiet and desolate earth. When I think of the southern ocean, I think about seeing the waves crash onto the rocks, water flying in the air and then magically sucking back into the ocean. This line brings so much visual imagery to me when I think about it and that's why I love it.
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One of my favorite lines of the poems is “Did he who made the Lamb make thee?” from The Tyger by William Blake. I like this line because not only does Blake allude to the creator of something as deadly as a tiger and as innocent as a lamb (God?), but to himself as well because he mentions “the Lamb” which is another poem by him. Blake uses a metaphor to compare himself to the Grand Creator. Both are beings that create something beautiful, deadly, and innocent. Both the Lamb and the Tyger can be symbols for poetry which just so happen to be the names of the poems he wrote. I’m assuming pun intended.
ReplyDelete~Jennie Heffler
Fern Hill is a coming of age / loss of innocence story that uses lots of repetition and imagery to evoke a range of emotions. The poem opens with the lines:
ReplyDelete"Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,"
Which set a relaxed, content tone which he then carries throughout to slowly morph into a more wistful or nostalgic scene. This carries on through most of the poem with this relation of a childhood surrounded by "green and golden" and ".. fire green as grass" ( as well as other recurring sounds and colors ), with the voice shifting towards a more understanding and hopeless one.
Finally, the poem ends with the lines (my favorites):
"Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means,
Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea"
Which are a method of recalling that initial emotion held from the first lines of the poem now in a completely different light.
-Andrew Van Bindsbergen
"Geothe Said that Architecture" by Homero Aridjis stuck out the most to me out of the other poems. My favorite stanza is the last one, and I'd have to say my favorite line would be "into old age, love, the night" from the examples he starts to list. When I first read the last stanza, it made me remember a few experiences. I thought about roads and how they're connected. When he says "into old age, love, the night, up to the table, into bed, like a sonata of flesh and bone," I thought about the experiences that have, is, and will take place on the streets. The words "musical streets" had me wonder about how on the streets and roads, all the examples of actions he listed, are laid out like musical sheets, like it's supposed to happen. I believe that Aridjis chose the word "slips" in the line "although man slips via these walkable rivers" as how it's said in a phrase like "he slips into something more comfortable," implying that it's not by accident that these things happen, and how it's supposed to flow without difficulty. I enjoyed this so much because it made me remember.
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My favorite from Dylan Thomas is the line "Fields high as the house, the tunes from the chimneys, it was air And playing, lovely and watery And fire green as grass." from Fern Hill. This line stood out to me because it really captures the quiet beauty of the landscape. I think being there in such peaceful scenery can lead someone (the author perhaps) to forget about earthly problems and become wrapped in the pleasures of living simply. On the other hand, witnessing the awe of nature might have led him to the realization that life is so much more than the fear of death or even death itself.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite poem this round was Harryette Mullens' "Sleeping with the Dictionary," and it was difficult to pick one line I liked best.
ReplyDeleteThe speaker describes a simple scenario: someone - a writer - perusing a dictionary late at night before bed. She writes: "In the dark night’s insomnia, the book is a stimulating sedative, awakening my tired imagination to the hypnagogic trance of language."
As a long time lover of books with many childhood memories of staying up too late to read, this line speaks to something so familiar, a mood I totally empathize with. Describing the dictionary as a "stimulating sedative" is such a perfect way to explain the feeling of forcing yourself to stay awake to keep reading. I love the word "hypnagogic" and the very dreamy effect it has on this sentence. The whole poem really captures the coziness and sleepiness as well as the creative arousal that comes with reading late. I loved it.
My favorite line was “Time let me play and be golden in the mercy of his means” from the Dylan Thomas poem “Fern Hill”. I enjoy the personification of time as a sort of dictator over all of our lives, granting us youthfulness that will inevitably be taken away. It is not just that the narrator must deal with the loss of a carefree childhood but that if we all live long enough, we will all also have to acknowledge that youth and innocence are only temporary. While the phrase “death is the great equalizer” is a recognition of what is imminent for all of us, time has a different effect from person to person. I like the idea that it can be merciful or have will over each of us since, when personified, it treats us differently. For example, while the narrator may see the passing of time as sad or a necessity for reflection, others may see it as a chance to start over or rebirth.
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My favorite line that stand out to me the most was in the poem called Goethe Said that Architecture by Homero Aridjis. The line was “Into old age, love, the night.” This line stand out to me the most because it makes me feel happy and warm inside. the line tells me that you should love everyday of your life even if you are old. That life is limited and time goes by faster than you think.
ReplyDelete-Abigail Herrera
The line that stood out to me was "The grass divided as with a comb A spotted shaft is seen" from A narrow fellow in the grass by Emily Dickinson. I chose this line because I was curious of what creature was being explained throughout the poem. As i read, I came to a conclusion that the narrow fellow was a snake explained in the line "a spotted shaft". I liked how Dickinson compared the snake with the comb dividing the grass smoothly as a comb would do to hair.
ReplyDelete- Gerson Bello
My favorite line from the readings was in Harryette Mullen's poem "Sleeping with the Dictionary", where she writes "heavy with the weight of all the meanings between these covers." This line stuck out to me because of it's metaphoric nature. Whenever I read it, I was instantly allure by the realization of how weighty dictionaries really are. Here, however, the dictionary seemed to be metaphoric for words in general, implying that the meaning of words are weighty and should be treated with respect.
ReplyDelete- Sarana McDaniel
The line that stood out to me the most was "architecture is frozen music" from the poem Goethe Said that Architecture by Homero Aridjis. I chose this line because I found it interesting how architecture buildings are being described and compared to something like music of all things. While it's true that buildings come in different structures and sizes, just like music with its many and different types of genre, there are some that remain the same and are untouched by time. Never evolving. Just buildings that stand still (which the word "frozen" can be applied to I suppose) and tall like a statue.
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My favorite line was "Goethe said architecture is frozen music" from Homero Aridjis poem "Goethe Said Architecture". This line stood out to me because I love how the poet compares both types of art together. I grew of playing music and learning different genres and styles and reading this poem brought it close to home.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite line from the poem “Cobalt” by Rolf Jacobsen is “The night sky and the southern oceans are her possessions”. This line stood out to me because of the personification used as the color cobalt is mentioned to own things. The line also gives it a feeling that the possessions cobalt has are something precious and meaningful to both the author and color. The sky and ocean can both be pictured as being big, vast, and cobalt.
ReplyDelete- Mariela Andrade
"A versatile partner, conversant and well-versed in the verbal art, the dictionary is not averse to the solitary habits of the curiously wide-awake reader. In the dark night’s insomnia, the book is a stimulating sedative, awakening my tired imagination to the hypnagogic trance of language." There. That's my favorite line. Or lines, I should say- From Harryette Mullen's "Sleeping with the Dictionary." If I had to narrow it down more specifically,I would say "In the dark night's insomnia" definitely takes the cake. I'm not sure why that particular quote speaks to me, but as someone who suffers from insomnia when I should be sleeping, I feel like I can relate on some level. Especially since I turn to books when my insomnia is particularly bad. (Though books seem to worsen my insomnia. Maybe I should read a dictionary next time?) I enjoy Mullen's poem as a whole. I love her word choice, strictly speaking. It's a poem that focuses on a dictionary so I just really like that there she uses words that a lot of people would need to look up in the dictionary to be entirely sure of their definition. Maybe Mullen wasn't going for that when she used words like "symptomatic" and "denotative", but that was my first reaction when I first read through the poem.
ReplyDelete-Kristin Galetano
The line that stuck out to me was "Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?," because I felt that it was a good ending frame for the poem. It is kind of like the perspective changed throughout the poem and the narrator is seeing differently by the end. The view of the Tyger is different.
ReplyDelete- Iesha Clouden
My favorite Poem was "Goethe Said that Architecture" by Homero Aridjis. My favorite line is "but I believe it to be petrified music and cities, symphonies built out of time, concerts of visible forgetting." This line spoke to me because although it does't make a lot of sense to me, I am able to vividly imagine a creative scene in my mind that I don't usually get from reading words from normal books. It opens up my mind to new perspectives of how words not formally written in sentences can create these beautiful scenes.
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My favorite line is from Rolf Jacobsen’s poem “Cobalt,” where he writes, “but even closer to thoughtful Cobalt with her distant eyes and untrampled spirit.” I feel like this line personifies the description of the color cobalt. Jacobsen senses an ceaseless closeness to Cobalt, which is given human characteristics and why Cobalt is important. The writer makes the color come to life as if it were a person he is speaking of.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite line is from "Cobalt" when the poet writes "we walk in dew on late nights" because he describes having a close relationship with Cobalt whereas "the others" are not as close and intimate.
ReplyDelete--Rayna Gomez
my favorite line was from "A narrow fellow in the grass" by Emily Dickinson. she writes, "But never met this fellow, Attended or alone, Without a tighter breathing and zero at the bone." i took this line as she never actually knew this guy she is writing about, maybe he wasn't what she thought he was.
ReplyDelete---Ranay Knight.
My favorite poetic line lies in Harryvette Mullen's poem Sleeping with the Dictionary stating "the alphabetical order of this ample block of knowledge might render a dense lexicon of lucid hallucinations" this line stood out to me the most because it metaphorically refers to a dictionary as just a block of knowledge which got me thinking about how the dictionary really is just this book of knowledge but we're all to lazy to read and realize it.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite line is from Rolf Jacobsen's, "Cobalt." He writes, "Colors are words' little sisters. They can't become soldiers." Jacobsen personifies colors and relates them to little sisters staying home while their brothers go to war. This line gives me a time period because present day soldiers are both men and women. This line stood out to me because it helped familiarize Jacobsen's perception of colors. I also appreciated his reference to Greek Mythology in the poem.
ReplyDelete-Alee Gonzalez
My favorite line is by Jacobsen, "when they come rushing toward you". The visual imagery it evokes is ironic to the way colors actually work. They don't exist until we perceive them; they are completely dependent on us. This line makes it seem as if colors are independent, that they can seek us out, instead of the other way around.
ReplyDelete-Alexandra Darling
My favorite line came from Mullen's "Sleeping with the Dictionary". The entire poem defamiliarizes a dictionary making it seem almost like a companion while using visual imagery, metaphors and personification. The line "the book is a stimulating sedative, awakening my tired imagination to the hypnagogic trance of language" compares the dictionary to a sedative drug causing the reader such elation they go into a trace-similar to what a drug user would feel. The speaker is characterizing the dictionary as a lover that contains such astonishing knowledge that it would cause "hallucinations". The romanticizing and defamiliarization of a simple dictionary compelled me to enjoy this poem the most.
ReplyDeleteOf all the poems my favourite is "The Tyger" by William Blake. I was actually familiar with this poem before this class so there might be One of my favourite types of rhyming is the use of a slant rhyme. i really like how Blake rhymes "symmetry" with "eye".
ReplyDeletemy favourite line in the poem, however, has to be "Did he who made the Lamb make thee?" I really like poems that ask questions. I feel like it adds to who the "speaker" is and how he thinks and feels.
Juan Garcia
My favorite line came from Cobalt by Rolf Jacobsen. "Then you can sunbathe with them on the smooth rocks." I loved the whole piece and found it a little difficult picking my favorite line. Because I had more than one, so I picked my favorite by what stood out to me the most. I loved the visual imagery being portrayed throughout the poem as well as how he used personification to bring about the colors to life. The author was also able to defamiliarize the word color, and in the end made a beautiful creation.
ReplyDelete-Crystal Magana
My Favorite line came from the poem by Dylan Thomas called, "Fern Hill." The line I found interesting was "time let me hail and climb." This poem is about a an old man and the journey he went through as a young man. "Time let me hail and climb," reflect to when he was young he was able to proceed on with life by doing what he can. I really liked the symbolism used in this poem and how the color green represented youthful/new life and fire green for passion. He honored life and lived to the fullest which not many people do these days. Time passes by everyday and how we spend that time reflects to memories and what we carry on with us as we get old. Some people are aware of aging and some still continue on with life and don't let age interfere their passion.
ReplyDelete-Ahlam Khalid
The line I chose is by Harryette Mullen in her poem called "Sleeping with the Dictionary." The line that stood out to me was when she says "Aroused by myriad possibilities, we try out the most perverse positions in the practice of our nightly act, the penetration of the denotative body of the work." This line stood out to me because it resembles how writers feel about good writing and the variety of words that exist to express emotions, sensations, people, places, etc. To people who appreciate writing as much as writers, when they come across a piece of writing that can so perfectly convey something it is arousing, not necessarily in a sexual way. Words can just bring people a great sense of satisfaction, and having it compared to sexual acts shows how satisfying they can also be.
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