Poems

Reflection #5

For this journal entry I will talk about a couple of Poems that we read in class from chapter 22 named Images. Let’s start with the meaning of image. From what the book describes image is language that addresses the senses. In my words image in a poem is the way in which you write something and by reading it you can use your five senses: touch, smell, feel, taste and see (or imagine the scenario). As chapter 22 says one of the most common images in poetry is the visual because the poems tend to make us use our imagination a lot and imagine every single passage in it.

The first poem that I’m going to be talking about is William Carlos Williams’ “Poem”. It is describing a cat who is walking very slowly and mysteriously then jumping on top of a closet and carefully stepping down into a flowerpot. With the words carefully used in this poem you can visualize the cat doing all of these movements and if you do have a cat for a pet you know how they tend to act. How they can be really not trust worthy etc…

The second poem it’s called “Windsurfing” written by David Solway. This poem describes how does it feel to windsurf from the moment you are standing in the beach getting ready to do this sport to when you’re riding this waves. How your adrenaline rushes through your veins and the balance you must keep to be able to tame the waves you are riding among other things. By reading a poem like this you just want to be out there and even though you might not know how to you get this rush inside that you would like to learn quick just to feel the same feeling the author is describing in his poem.