Monday, October 4, 2010

Edgar Allan Poe

I have read The black cat by Edgar Allan Poe in literature last year. I liked it because of its subjective nature. You read the story through his eyes which isn't a reliable source. This adds to the mystery in the text.

Poe was born in America and was orphaned at an young age. He spent five years in an English Classical Academy in England. After the death of his wife from tuberculosis, he became a drunk and died soon afterwards.

I've seen parts of the movie Sleepy Hollow last year in my french class. I personally, do not like scary movies all that much but I guess the public likes it because of it mysterious nature.

Poetry

Definition: Poetry is an imaginative awareness of experience expressed through meaning, sound, and rhythmic language choices so as to evoke an emotional response. Poetry has been known to employ meter and rhyme, but this is by no means necessary. Poetry is an ancient form that has gone through numerous and drastic reinvention over time. The very nature of poetry as an authentic and individual mode of expression makes it nearly impossible to define

William Carlos Williams was an american poet closely associated with modernism and imagism who also happened to be a physician.

Elephant

As the elephant
climbed over
the top of

the sun
First the trunk,
then his body

clumsily
then the elephant
stepped up

into the side of
the milky
way

This is just to say

I have danced with
the dandelions
That were in
the field

and which
you were probably
saving
for daddy

Forgive me
they were nice
so funny
and so playful