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diigo assignment poetry poem poems

started by Annette Lamb on 12 Aug 12
  • Annette Lamb
    #1 Annette Lamb on 12 Aug 12
     
    Some poems leave a lasting impression on the reader. Explore the poetry at Poets.org. Which poems do you find particularly powerful? What do you find interesting about poems? How do they connect with your thoughts or life? Use your notes to write a forum entry in the Diigo class forum.

    Follow these steps:
    1. Explore poems at http://poets.org
    2. Bookmark a poem using the Diigo tools. Be sure to share with the group.
    3. Annotate a poem using the Highlight and Comment tool. Be sure to share with the group.
    4. After taking notes on the poems, post your powerful poem entry in the Diigo class forum.

    To post your powerful poem entry, reply to this forum posting.

    Here's an example of what a posting might look like:
  • Annette Lamb
    #2 Annette Lamb on 12 Aug 12
     
    Here's an example of what a posting might look like:

    Hey classmates -

    My powerful poem is called "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost.

    Check out my bookmark and notes athttp://www.diigo.com/annotated/b4468d61784277a1e657cd4ee866001c

    Although written nearly 100 years ago, "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost has meaning today. This poem is personally powerful for two reasons.

    First, hiking is my hobby and I would relate to the back country setting. I've often encountered places where "two roads diverged in the yellow wood."

    Second, I'm attracted to the larger metaphorical meaning of the poem. Frost writes "I took the one less travel by, and that has made all the difference." These lines relate to the important decisions that we make in life. I've often taken the "less traveled roads" in my life and it's truly made all of the difference.
  • Carly Z
    #3 Carly Z on 07 Nov 12
     
    http://diigo.com/0u4ss

    In Robert Grave's Babylon, he discusses how children lose their ability to be poets as they grow up. Grave's discusses some of the famous mythic characters (or real people who became legendary) and how they all leave the adult's mind, leaving his mind as a sort of Babylon: once filled with a wealth of imagination, and now fallen to the realities of being an adult.

    I've annotated the page to provide some idea where many of the characters come from, although I've left out some of the more common ones from my culture.

    Carly
  • Angela Barton
    #4 Angela Barton on 12 Nov 12
     
    Hello!

    The poem I chose for this assignment is called "A Dream Within a Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe. My bookmark and notes can be found at http://diigo.com/0ua05.

    I knew I was going to choose a poem by Edgar Allan Poe because he is my favorite poet. I love how some of his poems can be creepy, some are sad, and how all of them evoke emotion. I enjoyed analyzing this poem because it is very subjective. While the poem discusses a person's goals and aspirations, Poe uses illusions to signify an "ending" but it is up to the reader to determine the type of ending. My notes include different interpretations.

    Angela
  • LJ Aucker
    #7 LJ Aucker on 15 Nov 12
     
    Good Evening!

    http://diigo.com/0ucxz

    I found an awesome poem titled, "Invictus" written by an English poet named William Ernest Henley.

    Just to warn you, the poem has a dark vibe to it, but has a positive message overall. Also, like many of you poetry is not my forte.

    I chose this poem because I really connected with it and I liked how it has a positive message (at least to me it came off that way). Sometimes I feel as though the whole world is against me and that nothing good ever comes my way. When the author was in an actual low point in his life and facing death, he still found something to be positive about. He was not going to just give up and proclaim, 'woe is me". Instead he decided to take these hardships and battle them head on. This is how I need to approach the low points in my life because I have no one to blame but myself for the course my life takes.

    Lawrence
  • Melissa Glidden
    #8 Melissa Glidden on 16 Nov 12
     
    Hi!

    http://diigo.com/0ued6

    My poem is by author Billy Collins who served as US poet laureate from 2000 to 2003. This poem is called Forgetfulness, and I love it because I don't feel as though there are is anything too emotionally heavy or convoluted about it.

    The poem is very simply about forgetfulness. The author takes the notion of forgetfulness and essentially personifies it, describing it as facts slipping and floating away.

    No one fact is particularly deep, either. He describes forgetting things from academic knowledge to addresses.

    You'll note that he isn't really describing things like forgetting meaningful life events. There is no tone of lamenting or deep sadness that comes from the act of forgetting. Rather, it's a fact of life. We forget things.

    I do take interest in the fact that he describes the memories as slipping off to a remote fishing village.

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