Poetry Reflection Michael Hoover

Poetry Reflection
Michael Hoover


   The effect or importance that poetry has on my life is it is fun to do and when I'm happy I like to do a happy poem that reminds me of Arkansas because that is were I like to be the most and wish I could  live there. In my opinion I do think that poetry has an affect or belongs to everybody, the reason that I think this is because I think that poetry can me anything to anyone for example if I were to read a poem and then give it to a friend we might both have different interpretations of it. Each reason
is unique to us so we could each think of a different message that the poem is trying to release or portray.

   The life and experiences of a poet affects their writing because of the way they might think about politics or nature or how they were treated as they were a kid. A good example of this is say a poet that is older expresses how he feels about the world and maybe he tries to express that he thinks that the world is really corrupt. This shows that he was probably raised in a family that was always talking about politics and how bad they were. Another great example is say there is a poet that always talks about how beautiful nature is and that there is unlimited things to do in a forrest. Well that is probably because when he was a kid he went camping or traveling with his parents and siblings. That is why I think that the experiences of a poet effects the way that they write their poems.

  "Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words" - Robert Frost

 Before we started poetry the thought that I had was that this is going to be really strict and boring "theres going to be limits on the thoughts we have" or "were just going to be sitting in class frantically thinking of rhyming with the next line of words" but an important thing that I learned was that there really is not a limit or boundaries with poetry. Another important thing that I learned was that there were different types of poetry and not just what we usually see when we search up poetry or read a Shell Silverstein book. I really enjoyed this experience of being able to learn more about poetry and the way people use it in everyday life.

Extended Metaphor Poem

Bio-Poem of a Literary Character

Were Im from Poem

Two-Voice Poem

Spine poem

Found Poem

Nonsense Poem

Picture Poem