Examining Poetry

E.E Cummings

Love is more thicker than forget

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/11427

The poem makes me think about how complex "love" can be. How it’s hard to forget and easy to recall. How in most cases it happens most frequent and out of the blue. And that it could drive people mad or desperate too. It's an intense desire that's comparable to fire, kindling one's chest without giving rest. (It made me think of a poem mostly...)

What I like about this poem is that it happens to inspire me. I do think love is a complex subject and that I can agree for the most part that it's hard to forget.

Hist whist

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/239196

I'm getting a Halloween vibe from this poem due to the fact it mentioned ghost, witches, goblins and devils. I imagined little children chanting this poem deep in the night, in the middle of a forest or in an abandoned house. Due to the fact that I’m a little paranoid of the supernatural it kind of gave me the creeps as well.

Overall, I like this poem and I think it has a nice charm to it.

Susan Howe

From cabbage gardens

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/172011

I am utterly lost and am not used to poems like this. If I had to think of something I'd say it's about an individual seeking guidance in some way. And the first thing that came in mind is that they're in deep thought while surrounded by nature. OR they could be reminiscing about the past. I wouldn't say I dislike the poem but it's really hard to think of a meaning behind it.

From chanting at the crystal sea (the 2nd poem)

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/172010

I like this poem a lot because it gave me an eerie feeling. It caught my interest because I like dark themes. In the poem it described a figure clad in white who stood surrounded by the blood of fallen warriors. It generally made me think of war and how horrible it is while keeping in mind the people who mourn the loss of their loved ones.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Dread Beat an Blood (pg 5)

My first impression of the poem is that it could be about a ceremony. People who gather at a place during the night, who surrounds the campfire while blazing out music. In the last verse it mentions some kind of a blood sacrifice happening (I think):

“then flash of a blade from another to a him

Lips out for a dog of a flesh of a piece of skin

An blood bitterness exploding fire wailing blood and bleeding”

I like the poem because the rhythm gave me a very dramatic feel and it has a bit creepiness that I am sometimes fond of.

Bass Culture (pg 14)

The poem makes it sound like someone is dying, how they’re in pain while death is drawing near. Their body gave in, too tired to move. Their mind laid focus on the beating of their heart and the flow of their blood. They wait for their fears to come true. I like this poem because at first I didn't get it, I thought it was about a beating heart until it came in mind that it could be about the emotions and conscious state of a dying person.