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Interpretation of “A Noiseless Patient Spider” by Walt Whitman
In his poem “A Noiseless Patient Spider” Whitman uses the simple imagery of a spider to portray a deeper human emotion. The speaker sets up the metaphor, which is a quiet spider, alone on a point of...
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Hadley Maya: Reflection Chapter 1 of The Norton Introduction to Poetry
I found myself thinking a lot about what we discussed in class about the “mood” of a poem. I think that poetry, just like a lot of other art forms, is open to a wide variety of interpretations and the...
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Article 6
I thought that the two poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay, when read side by side, were perfect examples of what this chapter discusses. In the first one, Millay addresses women in general, and in the...
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Article 5
I am torn on whether or not I believe poets write poetry for themselves or for their audiences. I know that it is not always one or the other, and most often, is probably both; however, I think it is...
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Poetry and Dance
The past few years, my chorus, The Young People’s Chorus of NYC, has sung with Rufus Wainwright for Rufus Wainwright and Stephen Petronio’s “Bloom”. “Bloom” is a modern dance piece choreographed by...
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Reading of A.E Stallings’ “The Mistake”
In this poem, Stallings so delicately describes “the mistake”, an idea that everyone can relate to in someway. I love how she never tells the reader what the mistake actually was, or what its...
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Reading of Robert Frost’s “The Mending Wall”
nbsp;http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/fr… Though Robert Frost is often known for his realistic depictions of rural life, the nature that he writes about holds a great deal of meaning about...
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“The Anthology of Rap”
nbsp;http://nymag.com/arts/popmusic/features/… I found this a link to this New York magazine article on poetryfoundation.org and thought it was worth sharing. I know that in class, we have touched a...
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“Celebrating Ramadan: Poems of Muslim Faith and Islamic Culture”
nbsp;http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/… I found this article on poetryfoundation.org to be very interesting as well as unfamiliar. It includes a collection of poems that examine Muslim faith and...
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