Anthology Conclusion!

Conclusion:

Anthology’s are good ways to discover and learn more about various poems and writing forms in which the anthologist is able to get a feel for digging in deep to distinguish between all kinds of poems and poet’s works and then taking each poem bit by bit to figure in style, structure, figurative language, design, mood, and all the various elements of poetry that separate it from others of it’s kind and from all kinds of other works of writing. Like the verse in the poem “Little Lessons,” "I may as well learn things from you As to learn from other men," and I have attained a lot of knowledge from others in their understanding of poetry and also some new stuff of my own. It is always better to be open-minded and hear from various people whether it be intelligent or intellectual people in which can allow someone to gain a better understanding of anything such as poetry in literature. I barely had any experience in reading poetry, but now am able to get by trying to read a poem and have even a little bit of knowledge for interpreting it with paying attention to what the poet is having stick out in the writing and the words that look alike or even sound alike that may be referring to a kind of figurative language such as with similes or metaphors that aid in being able to construe imagery in the readers head.


That is why from taking this poetry class and doing this project I have learned more about how to read and possibly write poetry in general and how interpreting can vary among readers of it along with appreciating poetry of all kinds from the purposed meaning the poet wants to get across to the reader to the format and what makes a poem a poem, even though poetry can be made into and come from other writings such as songs, books, etc; poetry can be just as entertaining and interesting as a movie or magazine if one gives it a chance. Poetry can provide various imagery in the mind such as seeing, hearing, touching(tactile imagery), and smelling that can also be just as emotional or even more being able to relate to poets at times and discovering different ideas and thinking of peoples’ all throughout history from Biblical, Shakespearean, and Dickinson time, to poets living in more recent years. And so I personally have gotten a lot out of this class and plan on trying my hand at trying to write some poetry some day and reading more, so like the last verse from the poem by Richard Wilbur, “I wish What I wished you before, but harder.(line 33)”, that everything turns out for those who try to do something like write and express themselves artistically or in any way in hope that “Success is …. Sweetest(Dickinson, line 1)” due to the inspiration in which is “….. …… ….. an endless supply inside you(Blackburn, line 8)” and this theme is motivational in thinking and is something that I like to live by being the reason for choosing this idea in my anthology’s theme “Past regrets and Future prayers and wishes”.