Is not the end Poetry!

Poetry in America is so easy to understand, all it takes it’s time, patience and interest. I could go on searching about the Poetry in our country but it is so much that it will take me years to achieve this goal. So far I showed how important it’s Poetry, why poems are hard to read, I gave a small amount of history, and I wrote about a poem that interested me. Also I describe how important is to keep our poetry in the same structure to maintain it safe and straight, this way people that try to change our rules will fail in the act. Oscar Fay Adams wrote a poem called, “The Distressed Poet” this poem was more than a million words, this poem gives credit to the Poet and all of the persons that have the talent of writing poems. This poem describes the issues of the poets, what they go through when they create a poem, and how hard is to make a poem rhyme when the words are placed in the wrong path. Oscar also brings out how people enjoy poets, how delightful is to be a poet and to be so clever. I believe that poets go through rough times when they have so many inspirational phrases but the rhyme doesn’t come out right. This must drive them crazy and make re-start all over again. For last I am going to talk about one last poem by George Henry Calvert called Aspiration. The word aspiration has a lot of meaning for me, knowing there was a poem called Aspiration describing it so smooth made me fall in love with this poem. It talks about not looking back, the past will help the future be better, no matter how many mistakes we have done it doesn’t matter we have to let go and move on because “the Future would be As sunlight warm and cheering”.
---Were we what we might be,
We 'd not look back with sadness;
But the Past as brightly
Would shine as present gladness.
Were we what we could be,
We 'd not look forward fearing;
But the Future would be
As sunlight warm and cheering.---



Author Name: Adams, Oscar Fay, 1855-1919
Volume Title: [The distressed poet, in] Pickings from Puck. Being a choice collection of preeminently perfect pieces, poems and pictures from Puck: Fifth Crop. The pieces and poems by R. K. Munkittrick, Williston Fish, W. J. Henderson, Bill Nye, Scott Way, P. H. Welch, J. H. Williams, E. Reed, Will J. Lampton, A. W. Munkittrick, F. E. Chase, E. Frank Lintaber, H. C. Dodge, Salem Dorchester, John Van de Bogert, F. Munan, W. E. S. Fales, R. W. Clarke, Ruth Hall, Eke Young, and others. The pictures by J. Keppler, F. Opper, C. Jay Taylor, Syd. B. Griffin, E. Zimmermann, J. A. Wales, M. Woolf, G. F. Ciani, A. B. Shults, J. S. Goodwin, C. G. Bush, and others. Fifth Crop
Place of publication (of source volume): New York
Publisher: Keppler & Schwarzmann
Publication date of electronic edition: 1996
Publication date of source volume: 1889
Source: American Poetry
Publication note: Only poem by Adams included.
Place, publisher and date of online version: Alexandria, VA., Chadwyck-Healey Inc., 1996
Copyright statement for the electronic edition: Copyright © 1996-2010 ProQuest LLC. All rights reserved.
Author Name: Calvert, George Henry, 1803-1889
Volume Title: Poems. By George Henry Calvert
Place of publication (of source volume): Boston
Publisher: William D. Ticknor & Co.
Publication date of electronic edition: 1996
Publication date of source volume: 1847
Source: American Poetry
Publication note: Preliminaries omitted.
Place, publisher and date of online version: Alexandria, VA., Chadwyck-Healey Inc., 1996
Copyright statement for the electronic edition: Copyright © 1996-2010 ProQuest LLC. All rights reserved.

American Crisis

Heather Mchugh wrote a document about the schooling of Poetry which in her point view is about how much the chances of a successful poetry life are dying. According to Heather academia is changing the way students should look at poetry because there isn't much interested as before. 100 years ago American culture definitively differs from todays. Why do I say this? Our culture is full of technology that focuses on war, blood, laziness, distractions and brainless actions. Students rather play video games than write an essay or a poem. The inspiration is getting lost, most people don’t notice or cares, and this will be, a literature crisis. Mchugh uses criticism not to analyze poetry but to created, as she recalls. Trying to add interest to Americans about poetry Heather discovers adding rhyme at the end of poems could enable her to add some feeling in between the spaces of though and thinking, as she explains in some of her poems. In the other hand James Wright also has a closed point of view of poetry as well as Heather having a conflict with the name "new poetry" in the academia. Wright ever since he was born in Ohio his love for poetry grew so fast, he started writing his poems and succeed. Heather and Wright have connected to one mind in my point of view and it is true America it is suffering a Poetry Crisis; we need to do something about it and add more interested in poetry.

Ladin, Jay. "Heather McHugh and the Schooling of American Poetry." Parnassus: Poetry in Review. 01 Jan. 2006: 120. eLibrary. Web. 26 Apr. 2010.
Mason, David. "The Inner Drama of James Wright." Hudson Review 4(2006):667. eLibrary. Web. 26 Apr. 2010.

The Great American Poem

Wow!! I have never read a poem like this it was simple, pure and straight forward. “The Great American Poem”, from The Virginia Quarterly Review had an impact in my literally word. It starts by saying that these is not a novel is a poem which has to start with a character and a place. But we get so engage with the narrator; we are more interested in this person not in the next line of the poem, but the narrator. The way this person describes a subject matter amazingly and magically transforms letters into words that drive us crazy. Not forgetting the selection of words he or she uses to loose us in this imaginary world. The poem explains how is just about the author and the reader and the time we take in reading this poem. I agree, a lot of the times we read a poem because of the author, either because we know him, or we read about him in the past and we like the way he/she writes or because it was a reference by a love one. We follow this narrator through each of stories that are in each poem because it makes us happy. It is not only about the book but about the author. I have some favorite poets and I do follow them because I like the way they talk to me in each of their poems. And I bet that you do to.Remember is just you and the narrator.Wagoner, David, and David Lehman. The Best American Poetry 2009. Scribner, 2009. Print.

Poems are Hard to Read

Everyone thinks that poems are beyond imagination and contain all these extreme words that build all these different feelings inside of us. In the book “Poems are hard to Read” by William Meredith takes us to another point of view of poetry. I personally agree that books are hard to read because sometimes they seem to have all these big words and phrases that are hard to understand. In my English class I went through this conflict, I had to read all th7ese hard poems that I only understood a third of them. It wasn’t that after reading them more than ten times and with the help of the dictionary I got to understand most of it. According to Mr. Meredith, “…poems show us, by exhibiting its own process, how the energy is to be found, in the process of simile itself, to mix mode and times and feelings in ways that are disturbing and mysterious and, for our souls’ sakes, necessary.” That’s why we seek in poetry to retrieve and connect all the memories and feelings the poem take us. Also he explains how a metaphor is stretch further to determine how a poem is to be picked up and spanked into breath by the reader. He offers three roles that explain his reason for poetry: 1.Poet as dissident, 2. The poet as apologist, 3. The poet is the poet as solitary. Reading his book engages the reader to continue reading and finding the way William sees poetry as.Arny, Rose, J. Sons, Limited Limited, and William Meredith. Poems are hard to read. Univ of Michigan Pr, 1991. Print.

The Father of Poetry

Philip Freneau as a lot of Americans called him the “Father of Poetry” was a poet that is not praise in now days. The re-evaluation to his hard work it is hardly criticize as a quantitative, by saying that his work was more like a blah-blah-blah instead of quality. Yes, even though he died in 1832 people are struggling in taking that tittle away from him. Apparently he was conservative in using his literature tools ,specially the stanzas that had to be perfect. His best was in “Florio to Amanda”, a combination of telling a story with a lyric impression. During his time his praise was highly adored but now people are starting to think more deeply. Philip was born in New York and went to school in New Jersey. Thank you Philip for bringing us poetry to our country.
"Philip Morin Freneau." LitFinder Contemporary Collection. Detroit: Gale, 2007. LitFinder. Web. 16 Apr. 2010.

American Poet

I am very thankful to carry such wonderful history of the people in our culture that started poetry here in America. They carried themselves to a level of greatness and purity. There is an enormous list of names that started this chain which I am super excited and satisfied. All this people made a revolution and gave a touch of interested to what is called poetry. A lot of them dedicated all there life in writing verses and giving us the entertainment of listening to a poem.
William Cullen Bryant is one of “outside the box men”, he always thought and act outside the box with his unlimited ideas and professionalism in each verse he wrote. All of his poems have been classify as elegant and pure especially in his first expose poem named “Thanatopsis” as others call it as the noblest poem ever written in America. This young man was born in Massachusetts in 1794 and all through his life he gave us a piece of him in his live full poems. He was a humble man, numerous of times receive a few bills for his poems but he will always keep his head up and was satisfy because his hard work was been exposed. Bryant was not just a newspaper editor he was a poet that gave his inspiration to our country, which he will always be kept in our records and history. A

"William Cullen Bryant." Essays of American Essayists, Rev. ed. New York: The Colonial Press, 1900. [89]-90. The World's Great Classics. LitFinder. Web. 16 Apr. 2010.

What about POETRY?

What is Poetry? Poetry will be a literally tool that contains rhythm, sound, language and imagination through the verses. We all have enjoy some poems especially when our love ones dedicate a poem to us, or just the fact that we where in an English class and we got interested in William Shakespeare’s or Walt Whitman’s poems. Besides that, anyone could write a poem all it takes it’s a pen, paper and sentiment. Poems are use to express one’s feeling even though they can be a hustle to read in other times it just takes time to understand and in others just flows gently through each verse. Poetry it is a successful tool for all of us, the fact that literacy is important and poetry its part of it, answers our question why poetry is important and useful for us. Poetry is easier to write than an essay, which just put a smile in my face. Poems are easier, faster, interesting, dramatically emotional and imaginative. Also goes handy with our daily basics, it can make our life more dramatic, shiner, happier, and alive.