{Journal entry #15} Farewell?

It's December, the last December of the decade.

{Journal Entry #14} Music + Poetry and all that jazz...

It was time the Poetry selection became less white, so Langston Hughes, here we go!

{Journal entry #13} My Frost Brings all the Form to the Yard

{Journal Entry #11} I missed this class, so I'll just talk about my time in Ireland instead...

Here I am, being extra on my last day at University College Cork.

{Journal entry #10} Walt, the quiet gentleman killer

When I was still officially a teen, I read a couple of lines from Song of Myself, and my reading life was changed forever.

{Journal Entry #9} Cynthia Nixon played Emily Dickinson and I'm here for it

...Also, what are these poems about?

{Journal Entry #8} Second Gen Romantic, a.k.a the original edgy bois

Young, attractive, self-destructive, aesthetes, ground-breaking... and great meme material.

{Journal Entry #7} Are "forms" passé?

Spoiler alert: no.

{Journal Entry #6} Turning the Line

A talent, indeed.

{Journal entry #5} So. Many. Figures.

I... don't even know where to begin.

{Journal #4} The thing with image

Today's class was all about imagery.

Twas awesome!

{Bonus Entry #4.5} The haiku

Speaking of images in poetry reminds me of the haiku. A traditional Japanese form of extremely short poetry that, if done right, can contain beautiful impressions and express them precisely.

{Journal Entry #3} So what is this REALLY about?

Today we discussed the issue of theme, and it got me thinking... (The image makes sense by the end of the entry, I swear).

{Bonus Entry #2.5} Concrete / Shape Poetry

Just a short entry on  another topic we covered last class.

{Journal Entry #2} Speaking Poetry

Not to be confused with spoken poetry. (Hold on folks, it's a long one!)

{Journal Entry #1} Introduction to Poetry

It's finally here! The Poetry course! After years of not caring much for poetry and then being absolutely traumatized by its study because of a mean teacher, I have been looking forward to this course, done by a professor whose classes I love and with an amazing syllabus!

These journal entries are for documenting the class-by-class experience and thoughts on some of the poems read for that class, plus any interesting things that might pop-up!