Poetry Appreciation

I felt that the lessons in term 3 were very useful. It helps me to appreciate the art of poetry and help me understand what was the poet thinking when he wrote the poem. Before term 3, I never thought of analysing a poem as it was quite boring and does no good to people who are not interested and I felt it was not a must to know how to analyse a poem. However, after Mr Lundberg have explained how it was to analyse a poem, I began to find it very interesting and fun. The reason is that some of the poems are very interesting in content and the poet's language is very good, enabling me to get higher marks in summary writing and literature test, thus increasing my overall english marks. It is very fascinating to see how the poet managed to squeeze a whole scene into just a few stanzas. If it was me, I would have taken 2 whole pages talking about a certain scene with bad language. I also learnt that there is quite a few different type of poems and analysing a poem can be extremely complicated. There is a total of 10 steps to analyse a poem that is maybe not even more than 100 words. This shows that the poets are extremely skilled at describing things using as little words as possible.