When you take a graduate level Shakespeare course and your final paper is on poetry forms in Romeo & Juliet, and the traditions they draw upon. #gradschool #gradschoolproblems #gradstudent #shakespeare #colourcoded
I‘ve never had much success attempting to read poetry. I really want to give this one a go, though. If nothing else, I have dramatic readings of them all to help me get through.
Linsy Whoa 😲 Impressive! 6y
GingerAntics @Linsy that all made sense at one point. Looking at it now is like reading Greek. lol I have no idea what all of it means anymore. I probably would if I read the intro essay again, but I don‘t really feel compelled to read it again. lol 6y
readinginthedark I'm not so great at critical readings of poetry either. I found it so interesting, though--one of my teachers in high school would have us write a response and interpretation of a poem from the board each day, and everyone had such different responses! Sometimes she would read us an author's interpretation of his or her own poem, and they were almost always different from any of our answers. 😆 6y
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GingerAntics @readinginthedark oh that sounds like a great little exercise. I‘m trying to think if an English teacher ever made us doing anything with poetry. I‘ve bought copies of poets‘ work previously and never end up getting into it. I always try, then always end up lost. Short stories may be my limit in brevity. I‘m not sure. I remember studying an epic poem once, but that‘s it. I really need to find a way to approach this. 6y
GingerAntics @readinginthedark I feel like I should read poetry. No idea why. I read a lot of nonfiction, so maybe it‘s that same compulsion that makes people want to read nonfiction. 6y
readinginthedark Do it! I try to read something from a new poet once a month, and I've really enjoyed some of my discoveries. I don't worry about figuring out "what it means," just whether or not it speaks to me in some way or even if I just enjoy the use of language. 6y
GingerAntics @readinginthedark it‘s not even that. I just have a hard time getting into it. I‘ve technically written my fair share of it, but I just have the hardest time really getting into it. It‘s like I don‘t get it or something. Without a plot I sort of start getting all turned in circles and I have no idea what‘s going on. I do enjoy other types of work that encapsulate poetry (Shakespeare) or epic poetry. Dunno what my deal is. 6y
GingerAntics @readinginthedark I‘m a firm believer in anything like that (a poem, a song, a painting) having a slightly or even significantly different meaning to every person because we bring our own experiences and perspectives to the table. So I‘m not so worried about meaning. It‘s more the form or something. I can‘t quite put my finger on it. It‘s really weird. I‘ve gotten into the overall arch of the sonnets just powering through. Need to do that more. 6y
readinginthedark You want something that tells a story; that makes sense to me. Narrative poetry would probably be best. Something that's still talking about something obvious but is just considered poetry because it's flexible with sentence structure, maybe? I'm better at writing poetry than reading it, as well. 😆 Which seems so quirky. 6y
GingerAntics @readinginthedark I‘m SO glad I‘m not the only one. lol I‘m really excited for the narrative poems after the sonnets. I think those are going to be more up my ally. I don‘t think I would have gotten through the sonnets if I didn‘t have an app with different actors reading them. 6y
GingerAntics @Texreader this is the intro to my beloved, beautiful hardcover copy of Shakespeare's sonnets. 6y
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