This week our poem of the week was from Elegy in X Parts by Matt Rasmussen taken from "The Black Aperture" I believe it was called. I thought this poem was much easier to understand in general than the first POW but especially the metaphors and imagery. I think about two blog posts ago I said that I never really like poetry but Ben let me read this book and honestly it was really sad but it was really good. The poetry was still metaphorical and used a lot of imagery but a lot of times it was vague and then really straight forward. It was quite the transition but ultimately really helpful in understanding the more vague parts scattered in the rest of the poem. My favorite poems from the book were "Tom Black", "Outgoing", "Elegy in X Parts", and "After Suicide". These stood out to me because they all conveyed the author's feelings really well and had great uses of imagery. I am a very visual person so imagery really helps when I read things in general, including poems. Maybe even especially poems because I think poems are harder to understand than a novel so having more imagery in a poem can make more of a story in my head, making it easier to understand. We also got to discuss this poem a lot which I liked because as I stated, I sometimes struggle with poems so discussing and seeing what other people noticed really helped in writing the final analysis essay. I liked this week a lot, and I hope we have more poems like this one for our POW.
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