Class on September 13, 2012

Class today was mind boggling, as a class we read two poems. The first poem was "Where I'm From", the poem did a great job of describing scenes and smells with very few words. One that caught my attention was   the smell of "fried corn and strong coffee". The line also tells the readers that the setting might be from the south of the United States. After reading "fried corn and strong coffee" the smells almost became a reality. One of the first lines of the poem talked about clothes pins, Clorox and tetra-chloride. The author made a creative way of painting the picture of laundry and cleaning, without a lot of words. The poem showed many good ways of presenting information with very little words.

The second poem we went over in class was called, Courageous Dreams Concern by Jack White. The poem was very interesting and had a few lines that drew my attention, when the author talked about the smell of sawdust from cut wood the smells of sawdust came to mind. And when the author said "I walked to the rhythm of mariachis" which painted a picture of a more music scene and made me want to dance. After reading both of these poems I grasped a good understanding of how to be creatively descriptive while writing a poem.