Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Life is fine reflection
Life is fine by Langston Hughes is a poem with a lot of imagery and rhythm. In the poem he talks about drowning in a river and jumping off a building but he can't because life is too fine to waste. I like this poem because it has a large beat and kind of sounds like a song, it's also a poem about life being good and I think life is good also so I think I can connect a little. This is probably my favorite poem right now because I like reading it over and over due to its song like qualities. From this poem I mainly figured out that poetry is better when you have good ideas, if you have a good idea and want to write a poem about it then it will be a better poem then if you just wrote something random that rhymed. Writing about ideas makes a poem a lot better.
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Thanks for introducing me to that poem, Sam. I hadn't read it before. It's conclusion is certainly that that life is good, but part of the power of the poem is the contrast of that with wanting to die.
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